HappyMonkey/HMD WOODSHOP - Page 12

BigV · 03-18-2005, 01:43 PM

This is the only power tool I know of that can save your life. All the others hunger for fresh meat. I watched a fella shorten his right index finger by one knuckle on a bandsaw once. Those machines care nothing for the length of your life, unless it means they get fed something besides wood wood wood, day after day.

Although, this machine operates so well, that I find it hard to believe. A strictly vegetarian table saw. Whooda thunkit?

mrnoodle · 03-30-2005, 10:19 AM

hey glatt, did you stain your cabinet yet?

Happy Monkey · 04-13-2005, 11:40 PM

I'm not sure which thread to put this in so, as I'm now using flickr, I'll go ahead and put it in both!

My dad just finished making me a cool box to store my markers and tape in. Here it is, closed, empty, and full:

Happy Monkey · 11-27-2005, 10:17 AM

We're starting a new project, a chest of drawers for my sister. It starts with a trip to the lumberyard.

It's a pretty nice lumberyard, with good variety and quality wood. This view was substantiated during this trip when we ran into one of my dad's woodworking inspirations, Peter Kramer. If he's willing to drive an hour to get wood there, it's good stuff.

We picked out three cherry boards, eight feet long, an inch and a half thick, and six to eight inches wide. These will be the sides of piece.

We bought the boards rough, so we put them through the planer until the faces were clean.

This creates a lot of sawdust.

Happy Monkey · 11-27-2005, 10:21 AM

And here are the boards with the large faces even. Now for the edges.

The chest will be about four feet high, so we cut the boards in half.

Ready for edging.

We have a very nice tool that lets you run a router along a track in a straight line. Our previous efforts without this router trolley have been much more labor intensive.

An action shot, from the side.

With the edges squared using the router and trolley, the gluing went extremely smoothly. Next up, squaring the ends.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-27-2005, 07:42 PM

Router trolley?
You jumped from the 19th to 21st century.

Is this a git-r-done by Christmas project?

Happy Monkey · 11-27-2005, 09:32 PM

Wait till you see the next picture...

Happy Monkey · 11-28-2005, 10:27 PM

The sides are going to be tapered; thinner at the top than the bottom. My dad is doing this with hand planes. (How's that, Bruce?)

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/68170862/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/20/68170862_931d7e8e8a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Glued" /></a>

The pencil mark shows how far down we have to get at this end. Click on the photo (or, indeed, any of them) for the flickr page, then click "All Sizes" to see the line clearer.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/68171614/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/30/68171614_5a3d880754.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Goal" /></a>

And these are the planes he's using to do the tapering.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/68172811/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/9/68172811_f96fb1886d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Planes" /></a>

xoxoxoBruce · 11-29-2005, 09:08 PM

Hey, I wasn't being critical, it just seemed like a philosophy shift which made me wonder if there was time constraints.

btw- I got a nice email from Peter Kramer.

Happy Monkey · 11-29-2005, 09:21 PM

No worries, I wasn't being defensive, just making a segue into the next phase.

It wasn't so much a philosophy shift as a new tool availability (we got it in August, and hadn't tried it out yet. It works great). Our power tools pre-trolley were too imprecise to get a result better than a hand plane, and power tool imperfections are harder to deal with than hand tool imperfections. Additionally, this wood is thicker than some of the handplane blades are wide, and would have been much harder to work with.

Why'd you get the Peter Kramer email?

xoxoxoBruce · 11-30-2005, 09:35 PM

I followed your link. Complimented his work.

Happy Monkey · 12-01-2005, 12:26 AM

Cool. It's good stuff. My parents have bought furniture from him for almost 30 years.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-13-2005, 07:57 PM

How about an update, HM?

Happy Monkey · 12-27-2005, 03:17 PM

It took a while for my dad to finish planing the sides down. I'll post an update soon.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-28-2005, 04:11 PM

I know.... good help is soooo hard to get.

03-18-2005, 01:43 PM	#1
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	This is the only power tool I know of that can save your life. All the others hunger for fresh meat. I watched a fella shorten his right index finger by one knuckle on a bandsaw once. Those machines care nothing for the length of your life, unless it means they get fed something besides wood wood wood, day after day. Although, this machine operates so well, that I find it hard to believe. A strictly vegetarian table saw. Whooda thunkit? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

03-30-2005, 10:19 AM	#2
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	hey glatt, did you stain your cabinet yet? __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

04-13-2005, 11:40 PM	#3
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I'm not sure which thread to put this in so, as I'm now using flickr, I'll go ahead and put it in both! My dad just finished making me a cool box to store my markers and tape in. Here it is, closed, empty, and full: __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

11-27-2005, 10:17 AM	#4
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	We're starting a new project, a chest of drawers for my sister. It starts with a trip to the lumberyard. It's a pretty nice lumberyard, with good variety and quality wood. This view was substantiated during this trip when we ran into one of my dad's woodworking inspirations, Peter Kramer. If he's willing to drive an hour to get wood there, it's good stuff. We picked out three cherry boards, eight feet long, an inch and a half thick, and six to eight inches wide. These will be the sides of piece. We bought the boards rough, so we put them through the planer until the faces were clean. This creates a lot of sawdust. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

11-27-2005, 10:21 AM	#5
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	And here are the boards with the large faces even. Now for the edges. The chest will be about four feet high, so we cut the boards in half. Ready for edging. We have a very nice tool that lets you run a router along a track in a straight line. Our previous efforts without this router trolley have been much more labor intensive. An action shot, from the side. With the edges squared using the router and trolley, the gluing went extremely smoothly. Next up, squaring the ends. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

11-27-2005, 07:42 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Router trolley? You jumped from the 19th to 21st century. Is this a git-r-done by Christmas project? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-27-2005, 09:32 PM	#7
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Wait till you see the next picture... __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

11-28-2005, 10:27 PM	#8
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	The sides are going to be tapered; thinner at the top than the bottom. My dad is doing this with hand planes. (How's that, Bruce?) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/68170862/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/20/68170862_931d7e8e8a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Glued" /></a> The pencil mark shows how far down we have to get at this end. Click on the photo (or, indeed, any of them) for the flickr page, then click "All Sizes" to see the line clearer. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/68171614/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/30/68171614_5a3d880754.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Goal" /></a> And these are the planes he's using to do the tapering. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/68172811/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/9/68172811_f96fb1886d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Planes" /></a> __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

11-29-2005, 09:08 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Hey, I wasn't being critical, it just seemed like a philosophy shift which made me wonder if there was time constraints. btw- I got a nice email from Peter Kramer. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-29-2005, 09:21 PM	#10
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	No worries, I wasn't being defensive, just making a segue into the next phase. It wasn't so much a philosophy shift as a new tool availability (we got it in August, and hadn't tried it out yet. It works great). Our power tools pre-trolley were too imprecise to get a result better than a hand plane, and power tool imperfections are harder to deal with than hand tool imperfections. Additionally, this wood is thicker than some of the handplane blades are wide, and would have been much harder to work with. Why'd you get the Peter Kramer email? __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

11-30-2005, 09:35 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I followed your link. Complimented his work. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-01-2005, 12:26 AM	#12
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Cool. It's good stuff. My parents have bought furniture from him for almost 30 years. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

12-13-2005, 07:57 PM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	How about an update, HM? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-27-2005, 03:17 PM	#14
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	It took a while for my dad to finish planing the sides down. I'll post an update soon. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

12-28-2005, 04:11 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I know.... good help is soooo hard to get. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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