Well that was interesting. I’m playing with a @leevalleytools Veritas 32mm cabinet system jig to drill shelf holes in a shop cabinet I’m building. It works well but I find I’m getting chips in the melamine when drilling holes. Maybe I should have put blue tape where the holes are going to a brad point bit. I’m only using it to drill the shelf holes not the construction dowel holes for now.
I’ve had these @festoolcanada parallel guides for about 10 years and haven’t used them until today. Normally my tablesaw does all the parallel cut I need but these 8 foot long boards needed to be crosscut and the 24” width was too big for the mitre saw. They worked well. Too bad I couldn’t use my STM 1800 cutting cart, too many voids so I went out and bought foam to cut on the ground.
This magnetic lamp fell off my bandsaw and hit the floor shattering the black peg style switch. I took it apart and modeled a new one for the 3D printer. I had my doubts but it was a near perfect copy and the geometry was pretty simple to do for a beginner.
Kind of complicated, it holds a spring that pushes on a brass rod that rests across the metal contacts on and off depending on the 90 degree position it’s rotated. The clicking on and off sound is the spring riding up the ramps and dropping on its position.
Wow, gotta hand it to made in China tools sometimes. The quality of this cabinet hardware drill position jig is pretty great (knock off of the True Position tool). I thought the joints would be loose and the paint markings sloppy but everything is crispy. I saved over $200 on this one, fine for me, it’s a once in a while tool.
Today I lucked out on a local Marketplace find for an old tool lot for $25. I spotted in the picture one of the planes was a Stanley Bedrock 605. Can’t wait to restore it along with the Bailey #3 and Millers Falls hand drills.
Debating selling this. I got it to go with my Peter Wright anvil (it matches all pretty both name and look).
I haven’t gotten around to playing around with forging and I don’t think I will anytime soon so it’s been leaning again the wall in the basement for a couple years now. I can’t see me making a stand/base as a welding project with my current workload and free space in the near future. I will keep my anvil though because it’s a nice one. I should do a shop tour to show my things, it might explain how my brain works #notahorder
I’ve put together a good docking station to do small parts on the larger Festool Domino XL. The domino sits in a domino dock that’s clamped on the workbench so it can stand up vertically so I can bring the wood to the machine.
Next is the Seneca Dock Plate XL, the black jig that attached to the domino fence. It lets you set narrow pieces of wood to plunge a mortise into the end that would normally be hard to do otherwise. There’s a built in clamp so you don’t have to hold the workpiece. This doesn’t let you do pieces laying down flat which brings me to my last piece. A flat platform.
Next I use the TSO Bigfoot. The blue piece. It lets you put a 1/2” plywood base which I’ve routed dovetail slots so Microjig clamps cam be used to hold workpieces flat hands free. Now I can do mortises on the ends and then the corespondent faces of wood.