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Yes, I’m seeing this, too. It appears that the website is suddenly using a self-signed certificate.
Also, the formatting seems to have gone missing (CSS not loaded anymore?).
It seems like someone is doing some major web-site remodelling right now. Perhaps it is not ideal to do this sort of thing with the production site…
Björn
I have tried hot glue myself recently, also using a baby bottle heater (Reer 3495 from ama*on for about 7 euros I believe). I’ve tried some hammer veneering with bone glue (also about 7 euros per kg). I still need some practicing with that, but the first results look half decent already. It’s not a big investment and it is not complicated.
I keep the glue in a jam glas with a lid on it on my shelf when not in use (the jam glas fits into the bottle heater nicely). I have heard somewhere that the glue might start to rot and that some folks hence keep it in the fridge, but I haven’t encountered that problem yet.
I gave the glue its initial soaking over night, same as with shellac, and that works fine. The glue has a distinctive odor, which I find OK, but it does keep the wife away from the workshop.
I like the sticks. Well done! I had some noses with shellack, too. That’s due to impatience 😉 A little light sanding can take care of that.
I painted my first set of winding sticks (oak) with white and black acryl. Butt ugly, but the only finish I had ready at hand at the time. Your’s look really awesome in comparison. I think I might copy your design and make myself some new ones. It’s a nice little project.
Actually, “the guy” is Chris Schwarz, who published a book titled “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” a little while ago. Among other things that book is about his previous tool chest, which in the video you see very briefly at the left of the new one featured here (the bigger, unopened big black box). The old chest has some nice sliding drawers inside it, but I would consider it too heavy and bulky to be actually useful to transport your tools to anywhere. I am definitely waiting for Paul’s go at a tool chest before I might build my own one.
Making a shooting board was also one of my first tasks, and while mine is only made from scrap particle board using dowels and screws, I don’t think that I will make a new one just for the fun of it. I’m still pretty happy with mine.
@george Hm, your wedges don’t look very wedge-shaped to me. Do they wedge properly in the mortise or do they just sit in there moving freely to the left and right? Especially the 90 degree one looks like it doesn’t remain in the mortise by itself. If they wedge properly, then I guess some corrective measures like the ones suggested above might work just fine. if not, instead of making a new board you might also consider to remodel the mortise for the 90 degree fence and make a new wedge for it. That might be a shorter route. Just my two cents.
Hi everyone, My name’s Björn and I am addicted to woodworking videos… ahm, wrong opening 😉
It is relieving to see that there are quite a few of you making do without a workbench or proper shop, too. I live in an apartment block, two bedroom unit, 4th floor, no lift, with my store-away “shop” set up in the room that my wife and I also use as office space, as a guest room, and to hang clothes to dry. And of course it is imperative that I cannot use power tools often, since there plenty of neighbors close by.
I have been working with one of these folding mini workbenches (similar to the workmate, but mine is from wolfcraft) for over a year, and I am quite tired of it by now. So my next (bigger) project will be a compact workbench, but I’m still a bit undecided what exactly it will look like. It cannot be heavy or too long for obvious reasons. Currently I favor the style of the “basic bench” described in Landis’ “The workbench book” (google Ian Kirby workbench for pictures), especially the simplistic bench dog I quite like. Bit it is still a bit to massive for my needs. My version might be a plywood torsion box with a simple vise and the simplistic bench dog, mounted agains a wall.
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