Hand Crafted Woodworking
The objective for today was a little underterminded. I thought I was going to work on leg milling but I took the 4th section out of the clamps and that started a whole sequence of events. I really wanted to see what the dog holes and tail vise slot would do when I ran the […]
The goal for today is to complete the milling of all of the top boards. Also, I wanted to fix some problems with the jointing process. First, fixing the problems. I thought a lot about my milling processes and what could be causing the problems. Two possible problems came to mind. First it was hard […]
The task for Day 4 is to complete the milling process for the bench top boards. I learned a lot from completing the first section. The process would be much more efficient to mill all the boards at one time. I did not accomplish all of the processing today. I got the […]
For me, the most dangerous tool in my shop is my jointer. I have an 8″ Grizzly G0593 with spiral head. I have always been concerned about pushing boards through the jointer with my hands on the board. I have read of boards that explode and your hand goes into the cutter head. […]
