Woodworking and the tools you use and projects and wood porn.

[MegaHurts]

Bought a dirty and rusty Renfrew scale at an auction a short while ago and finally finished the cleaning/restoration without losing much patina/character/history. Turned out quite nice after hours of wire brush in the drill, soap, water, scrubbing, sanding, boiled linseed oil on the cast iron and wood and finished with a wax buffed out.
Fully functional as a grain scale and dolley it will replace the wannabe coffee table I built that started off as just a small door from a barn.

 

[RickeyM]

Black & Decker, right? I got mine in the late 70's/early 80's.

Generic sorta' Workmate clone. Late 90's I think.

 

[RickeyM]

Big Dusty dry fit. I have to add latches for the top and maybe a view window or two.

 

[spicer]

Big Dusty dry fit. I have to add latches for the top and maybe a view window or two.

Take me to your leader...

Nice job.

 

[bhairavi]

Just got a new (used) Sawstop and a new (used) lathe. So now the shop is in disarray....

 

[bhairavi]

(And dammit my previous tablesaw was exactly level with my workbench, this one is a good 2" shorter...)

 

[Cubdriver]

(And dammit my previous tablesaw was exactly level with my workbench, this one is a good 2" shorter...)

Well, take the legs off the bench and use your new table saw to shorten them by 2"...

-Pat

 

[bhairavi]

Workbench legs are 5" square mortisedand draw-bored into the top, and a good height so I dare not mess with them. I'll just have to deal with moving the tablesaw back when I rip something long.

Hmm or I could try orienting the saw orthogonal to the workbench....

 

[RickeyM]

(And dammit my previous tablesaw was exactly level with my workbench, this one is a good 2" shorter...)

You could lower the floor, or raise the tablesaw

 

[usedto]

Interesting project possibilities here -
My warehouse neighbor has a commercial door business. Mostly steel doors, bur occasionally wood. He has a pile outside his warehouse for used pallets that someone comes by and picks up every now and then. I drove by Saturday and spotted these in the pile. I asked him this morning if they were garbage, and he said yes, I could have them. Seems he ordered them for a customer who then changed the dimensions or something where they weren't needed any more. I went and got my forklift and brought them to the warehouse. They are solid core door blanks with both edges rounded and veneered. They measure 33" X 104 1/2"" X 1 3/4" thick.


Not sure if they're red or white oak (I'm sure you experts can shed some light on that).

There are a multitude of steel table and bench legs available out there. All they really need is veneer banding for the ends and some sort of finish.

I'll figure something out.

 

[elcoholic]

Shuffleboard.

 

[RickeyM]

You can make some awesom work benches with those.

 

[bhairavi]

Got the lathe just about squared away.




Also tuned the Sawstop table/blade to within 2 thou for 0 and 45 degree cuts and got a new WWII blade. Smooth! First time using it was to cut up some old alder and oak cabinet doors that I got from Habitat a couple years ago in order to make the smaller shelf for additional storage on the lathe.