Woodworking

Wood racks basically provide space to stack wood. The wood needs to stack flat and allow air to circulate around the wood. The wood takes years to dry properly, so once you start doing woodworking projects you will also start acquiring wood until it became enough of a problem to build a rack.

A shooting board is basically a jig for aligning a hand plane with the board to be cut. The board is held with the hand against a hook in the shooting board while the plane runs along a runway shaving the board down to size over many passes. Usually the runway and hook are at right angles, this relationship enables the plane to shave the side of the board at a right angle to the edge of the board on the hook. Shooting boards are just amazing tools. Easy to build and use and they let you quickly square the ends of boards, or trim their length be as little as a few thousandths of an inch at a time.

So if you are short on shop space, and who isn't, wall hanging tool chests are an easy to build way to pull the storage of a large number of tools up onto a single piece of otherwise unused wall space. I have been blown away on just how many tools they hold while keeping the tools quick to access.

I added a plane stop to the Grizzly H7724 workbench. Grizzly wants $425 plus shipping new, but you can pick them up used for under $250 fairly regularly. I decided to upgrade mine as my woodworking progressed.

I also added a leg vise to the Grizzly H7724 workbench.

I was inspired to build a saw till after I saw the sawtill at Dan's Shop. A saw till is basically a box for organizing your saws. If you have more than 4 saws in your shop I highly recommend this project. It both freed up space in the shop and sped up my working pace.