http://woodgears.ca/ An engineer's woodworking site http://woodgears.ca/home/stair_treads.html http://woodgears.ca/home/stair_treads.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:30:00 EST Installing some new stair treads on top of the old stairs at a friend's place. Turned out nice, but more involved than the stair and riser kits made it look. http://woodgears.ca/reader/walters/pipe.html http://woodgears.ca/reader/walters/pipe.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:30:00 EST A method for making long hollow tubing out of wood. http://woodgears.ca/jointer/accuracy.html http://woodgears.ca/jointer/accuracy.html Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:30:00 EST After six months, and a change of seasons and corresponding change in humidity, time to give the homemade jointer a checking over to see if it's still accurate. http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/rick/index.html http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/rick/index.html Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:00:00 EST Based on my bandsaw version 2, with some modifications, such as using the upper wheel mount from my 14" bandsaw design. http://woodgears.ca/reader/pekka/bandsaw.html http://woodgears.ca/reader/pekka/bandsaw.html Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:31:00 EST Pekka Svinhufvud sent me some pictures of bandsaws he built back in 2006, including a write up on how he built his second bandsaw. http://woodgears.ca/jointer/glue.html http://woodgears.ca/jointer/glue.html Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:30:00 EST After discovering that plywood nicks jointer knives, I was curious to see if the wood glues I normally use might also cause problems. http://woodgears.ca/horizontal_boring/reuter.html http://woodgears.ca/horizontal_boring/reuter.html Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:00:00 EST Carlo Reuter sent me some pictures of his very nicely built horizontal boring jig. http://woodgears.ca http://woodgears.ca Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:30:00 EST It seems that google reader is not picking up every story from my RSS feed. For example today's story just didn't appear in google reader. Sorry, I have no insight into how google reader works, so I don't know how to debug this. http://woodgears.ca/router_lift/index.html http://woodgears.ca/router_lift/index.html Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:30:00 EST Built a tiltable router lift. This really opens up some possibilities for making molding using inexpensive router bit sets. http://woodgears.ca/reader/rt_condo.html http://woodgears.ca/reader/rt_condo.html Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:45:00 EST Rebecca Thornley sent me pictures of the pantorouter she built. She lives in a condo and doesn't have a "workshop", so the dining room has to make do. http://woodgears.ca/jointer/plywood.html http://woodgears.ca/jointer/plywood.html Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST My homemade jointer did a nice job of cleaning up edges of birch plywood... Until I discovered a series of nicks that exactly matched the plywood http://woodgears.ca/reader/walters/winder.html http://woodgears.ca/reader/walters/winder.html Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST A neat little gadget for winding wooden clocks using a cordless screwdriver. http://woodgears.ca/tenon/opie.html http://woodgears.ca/tenon/opie.html Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST Harlan Opie sent me some picutres of the quick set tenon jig he built. Some clever mods for mounting and unmounting a caliper. http://woodgears.ca/jointer/mike/ http://woodgears.ca/jointer/mike/ Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST Mike Bourbonnais sent me some pictures and a writeup about building his jointer, which is based on my homemade jointer design. A nicely built machine! http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/wheeler/more.html http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/wheeler/more.html Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:20:00 EST Jim Wheeler sent me some pictures of an update of his massive 18" bandsaw, adding an equally massive set of trunions to allow the table to tilt. http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/trunions.html http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/trunions.html Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST I went into a lot of details on bandsaw construction with my 14-inch bandsaw series. But one thing that series didn't cover is trunions (the 14" doesn't have any), so I went into that in some more detail with this article and video. http://woodgears.ca/sketchup/ http://woodgears.ca/sketchup/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST Four tutorial videos on getting started with Google Sketch. http://woodgears.ca/sander/kyle.html http://woodgears.ca/sander/kyle.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST Kyle Scott sent me some photos of his homemade belt/disk sander that he built for a total of $15 in material costs. http://woodgears.ca/cottage/foundation.html#icelens http://woodgears.ca/cottage/foundation.html#icelens Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:25:00 EST Came a cross some "ice lensing" while raking my yard. Ice lensing is a very interesting formation of ice that can open up whole layers of ice within the soil, accounting for most of what we know as frost heaving. http://woodgears.ca/pantograph/circles.html http://woodgears.ca/pantograph/circles.html Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST A neat way to cut small circles with a router. Using the techniques to make some round lids for glass containers I use in the kitchen. http://woodgears.ca/reader/jensen/ http://woodgears.ca/reader/jensen/ Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST Lars Jensen writes about his experiments modifying his dust extractor and his shop-vac to use a thien baffle. A Thien baffle works much like a cyclone separator, but is flat instead of conical. http://woodgears.ca/reader/walters/dust_extraction.html http://woodgears.ca/reader/walters/dust_extraction.html Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST Four videos by Ron Walters showing how to optimize the dust collection efficiency on some of his stationary machines. http://woodgears.ca/tool_holders/zimmerman.html http://woodgears.ca/tool_holders/zimmerman.html Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:00:00 EST David Junior and Jean Lana, from Brazil, were inspired by my "a clever tool chest hinge" article, and designed and built some very clever worksite tool chests http://woodgears.ca/gear/laser.html http://woodgears.ca/gear/laser.html Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:21:00 EST I had the opportunity to try out a laser cutting at Ottawa's ArtEngine lab. Made a video, naturally. http://woodgears.ca/reader/contreras/index.html http://woodgears.ca/reader/contreras/index.html Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:50:00 EST A format style table saw, using a handheld circular saw as the motor unit. http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/cnc.html http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/cnc.html Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:20:00 EST An experiment to see who can cut a gear faster - me on my bandsaw, or Michael on his CMC mill http://woodgears.ca/mm2/sanders.html http://woodgears.ca/mm2/sanders.html Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:30:00 EST Brian Sanders sent me pictures of his version of marble machine 2.1 Based on my plans, yet using very different methods to build. Beautiful machine! http://woodgears.ca/lathe/homemade.html http://woodgears.ca/lathe/homemade.html Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:00:00 EST Beri used the head from a small drill press as the headstock for his homemade lathe. Cheaper than buying a lathe. http://woodgears.ca/sander/beri.html http://woodgears.ca/sander/beri.html Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:00:00 EST A simple disk sander built using a motor from a concrete mixer http://woodgears.ca/cider/index.html?r http://woodgears.ca/cider/index.html?r Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:20:00 EST I built another apple grinder, similar to a previous one I built in 2003, but this time taking lots of photos and video of the construction, with a detailed writeup. http://woodgears.ca/reader/alain/index.html http://woodgears.ca/reader/alain/index.html Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:05:00 EST Alain Vaillancourt sent me some pictures of some of the jigs he built from his plans. He's also made a nice video of building his clamp rack (further down in the article) in English and French. http://lumberjocks.com/armand/blog/26345 http://lumberjocks.com/armand/blog/26345 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:25:00 EST I thought I was crazy when I built my own jointer, but Armand Pedroza just sent me a link to his own shopmade jointer, loosely based on my design, which he posted about on lumberjocks.com http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/reader.html http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/reader.html Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:00:00 EST Pictures of two more reader bandsaws, and some notes about their experiences: Luis Segura Yupari's bandsaw, and Dave NOrton's bandsaw http://woodgears.ca/mortise/drillpress.html http://woodgears.ca/mortise/drillpress.html Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:10:00 EST A simple technique for mortising on the drill press. The key is a short bit, and rigid clamping. http://woodgears.ca/router_table/ http://woodgears.ca/router_table/ Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EDT Pictures of Dejan Kovac's router table. Dejan also sent me the cad model for his router table, so I have spent some time turning those into a free set of plans.