Cutting Table to Coffee Table
This week Laura Kampf builds a very cool coffee table, using mortise-and-tenons for the joinery and what looks like a circular-saw-cutting underlayment for the top. To level off the kerf marks she fills them in with epoxy resin, killing the bubbles with a torch. Check it out:
Mobile Workstation
An entertaining fast-motion build from Jimmy DiResta this week, as he whips up a teacher’s workstation for a makerspace. It’s a lot of fun watching him install the locking mechanisms:
Make a Shop Stool in Ten Minutes
Jesse de Geest shows you his “cribbing ponies,” 2easy-to-make shop stools. Consisting of just two legs, two gussets and a top, you can whip these up out of cut-offs:
An Expensive Planer vs. a Cheap One
Here Matthias Wandel compares a (CAD)$200 planer versus a (CAD)$750 planer. He does a great job with sponsored content because he doesn’t pull any punches, really gets inside a machine to see what makes it tick, and shows you some real-world-usage details that many power tool reviewers would neglect to address.
Wood Turned Brick Bowl Fix
Wood movement being what it is, Frank Howarth turned a massive maple bowl three years ago and has been letting it dry ever since. With the bulk of its moisture finally shed, now he’s ready to turn it to final dimensions, and comes up with a novel way to replace some defects in the wood:
DIY Barbecue Grill Stand
With the weather getting nice barbecue season is nigh, and here Steve Ramsey shows us how he built the equivalent of a $100 grill stand for $40:
Building a Trash Can Enclosure, Part 1
An outdoor build from April Wilkerson this week, as she starts to build an enclosure for her trash cans using inexpensive materials. Here in Part 1, she puts up the framing and sheathing before the weather intervenes:
How To Flatten A Workbench Top With Hand Planes
How do you flatten something too large to run across the jointer? Using handplanes, of course. Here Jay Bates demonstrates the technique using a friend’s workbench:
Installing LED Shop Lighting
No build video from Linn/Darbin Orvar this week, just a basic one showing her installing ultra-bright lighting in her shop. It seems like a product plug, but if you’re looking to go LED in your own shop, these may be worth a look:
Lumber Cart for Vertical Wood Storage
Last time Sandra Powell whipped up some brackets to store wood horizontally. This week she builds a tall, narrow cart to store cut-offs vertically:
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