Tag Archives: Bandsaw

What Happened to the Fall?

Had everything gone according to Hoyle, you would have seen several posts over the past few weeks walking you through the steps as my Build Challenge entry was progressing. I did make some progress, such as roughing out the legs on … Continue reading

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Layout and Dimensions

This has been a highly productive week, where I got shop time Monday (took the day off to recover from WIA), Friday afternoon, and today. Those shop sessions gave me enough time to prep and dimension almost all of the … Continue reading

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Tick Marks to Templates

Design sketches – checks. Materials – check.  Now it was time for some serious shop time. For the complex curves that I had in several places on this piece, I knew I would need a few steps between my initial … Continue reading

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Serving Up a -BANG-

When I was putting together my initial plans for this crate, I knew that I wanted to have a couple of trays that stacked one upon the other – even though I wasn’t sure how I would accomplish that. I … Continue reading

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Christmas Gifts – Potato Masher

My wife and I live in the Washington DC area, which contains a lot of people transplanted from all across the rest of the country. Because of this, we were able to have a lot of friends over for Thanksgiving … Continue reading

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Christmas Gifts – Domino Set

Flipping through the weekly Rockler e-mail a few months ago, I noticed an ad for template for a set of dominos: The set and that box struck a cord with me. My parents play dominos, so I thought this would … Continue reading

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Christmas in November

For some time now I’ve been doing research and stashing away money for that rainy day when bandsaws fall from the sky. Yesterday, it got cloudy. I got my Powermatic 14″ bandsaw from the lumber guys over at WoodWorkersSource: Due … Continue reading

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