Furniture Design Ideas

Removable power… tool table (page 103) Holds router, saber saw, or electric drill upside-down for stationary work; attached to workbench with wing nuts for easy installation and removal band saw extension table (page 110) Fastened to band saw table to increase surface area  

A CONTOURED SANDING BLOCK Making the block For smoothing the contours of a piece of molding, you can use a short sample of the molding to shape a sanding block that mates perfectly with the surface of the workpiece. Fashioning the block requires auto body filler or modeling rubber to make a mold of the […]

A SANDING TABLE FOR THE DRILL PRESS Hole for sanding drum 3 V&" diameter   Making the jig Sanding drums larger than % inch in diameter are too large to fit through the hole in most drill press tables. To make full use of the sanding surface of larger drums, build a table like the […]

A CIRCLE-SANDING JIG 1

  Sanding is one of woodworking’s most tedious tasks, but there are tools and techniques to make the job easier and improve your results. The use of a simple jig will help improve the speed and efficiency of most operations, and make tricky tasks easier to accom­plish. Several are shown here and on the following […]

Clamps and bench vises are indis­pensable to the woodworker. Their very simplicity makes them versatile, but the basic clamp or vise can be made to work better or more easily with the help of a jig. The items shown in this chapter will enable you to get the most from the clamps and vises you […]

Accurately determining depth is essential to faceplate turning; too deep a cut can ruin a bowl. Made from solid wood stock, the bowl – depth gauge shown at right fea­tures a pair of perpendicular Vi-inch dowels; the holes for the dowels overlap so that the longer dowel can be adjusted and wedged in place by […]

1 Building the jig With the box-like jig shown at right you can rout flutes in a column while it is mounted in the lathe. Cut the parts of the jig from %-inch plywood, except for the top, which is made from l^-inch clear acrylic. Refer to the illustration for suggested dimensions; the jig should […]

A DIAMETER GAUGE AND A LAYOUT JIG ЄНО? TIP Faster turning with preset calipers To check your progress when spin­dle-turning several identical workpieces, adjust a set of calipers to each finished diameter you need. This will eliminate the need to read­just one set repeatedly. Use your design of the piece as a guide to set […]

1 Making the jig The jig shown at left guarantees that the tip of a turning gouge will contact the wheel of your bench grinder at the correct angle to restore the bevel on the cutting edge. The dimensions in the illustration will accommodate most gouges. Cut the base and the guide from Уг-inch plywood; […]