Pat Rock on Sep 29th, 2006What I’m Working On Right Now
As usual we’re heading into October and I’ve wasted the summer months in my shop and I’m now trying to cram in 5 months of projects into two.
At the moment I’m working on two shaker reproduction night stands referred to as Saturday Tables. We’ll see if this can become a how to.
After that I [...]
Pat Rock on Aug 3rd, 2006The Best Way to Safely Rip Twisted Wood
Ripping is the process of cutting wood along the grain. In order to do this safely on a table saw the wood must be perfectly flat on the bottom, and have one perfectly straight edge that can ride along the fence.
Why?
Because a tablesaw has between a 1 and 5 horsepower motor that is turning [...]
Pat Rock on Jul 19th, 2006How To Build A Roman Plane
Christopher Schwarz, the editor of Popular Woodworking is using a Hock Krenov Plane Kit to reproduce an ancient roman hand plane
Very Interesting. I hope he writes a followup on how well he likes using it.
Pat Rock on Jun 22nd, 2006How To Attach A Ridgid Herc-U-Lift to a Jet Table Saw
I recently assembled a Jet JWTS-10JF Table Saw and included in that process was attaching a Ridgid Herc-U-Lift mobile base for the saw.
The Ridgid Herc-U-Lift is the best mobile base for the bucks that you can buy. It has four oversized wheels, easily lifts the machine with a push of your leg, and when [...]
Pat Rock on Jun 22nd, 2006Medieval Wood Turning
Check out these cool wood turning pictures from a renaissance fair in Switzerland
One of the guys you are seeing is Jean-Paul Rossi, and yes, his lathe is really a piece of a tree! You can see a better picture of the tree lathe here.
Pat Rock on Jun 19th, 2006Its Alive. Its Aliiive.
The table saw, like the Death Star, is fully operational. Stephen will be so happy considering he was begging me to uncrate and put it together 7 months ago. Well now its together and cutting wood.
I cannot describe the difference between this saw and the tiny “job site saw” I had been using [...]
Pat Rock on Jan 11th, 2006Tapemeasure Racing
What does the staff at woodworking magazine do when bored? Tapemeasure racing of course.
Pat Rock on Jan 6th, 2006Interviews with Roy Underhill, Host of the ‘Woodwright’s Shop’
1985 Mother Earth interview. This was from right after he launched the show.
A more recent interview.
Pat Rock on Jan 5th, 2006Woodworking Tips
I get woodworking tips from an RSS feed, but you can also get them via email. Pretty handy.
You can grab the feed here
For an example of something that was handy to me: Improved Sanding Block.
Pat Rock on Dec 20th, 2005A Couple of Woodworking Links
I’ve got a couple of woodworking links that I have been meaning to throw up here too. I should probably blog more about my woodworking addiction, but somehow it just never really seems to percolate up from the deep wells of subconscious creativity that I mine in order to deliver fresh steaming content to [...]