Home Theater LED Lighting & Speaker Set-Up
Good learning for designers: Linn from Darbin Orvar consistently tackles projects with a holistic approach, and does a great job of explaining her process. She’s got her own aesthetic style, the hand skills to build across multiple materials, the tech brain to cobble electronics together, and she analyzes her projects honestly in order to uncover and correct mistakes. This project is no exception:
A Different Approach to Dust Collection
Matthias Wandel re-thinks the typical shop solution of having a centralized dust collector by creating some new inventions:
Anvil Stand
This week Jimmy DiResta breaks out a plasma cutter, a cold chisel and a welding rig to create this solid steel anvil stand:
DIY Dowel Jig
Here Izzy Swan demonstrates an unconventional way to easily make dowels by cleverly hacking together a jig involving a chisel and a cordless drill:
Fancy Corners Created With a Drill Press
Swan also shows us a technique for creating decorative corners for boxes using a drill press and dowels:
How to Make a Wooden Spoon (With Regular Shop Tools)
Another from Swan, who shows us how to whip up a popular-selling item: Large wooden spoons for cooking.
Powermatic PM-TJ Tenoning Jig
Marc Spagnuolo reviews Powermatic’s updated tenoning jig. Might be overkill if you’re only cutting conventional tenons, but surely looks useful for those of you doing them at angles:
http://www.core77.com/posts/56667/DIY-Home-Theater-Components-More-Efficient-Dust-Collection-an-Easy-Way-to-Make-a-Wooden-Spoon-a-Tenoning-Jig-Review-and-More