I Decided to Make a Rainstick I’ve wanted to try my hand at making a rainstick for some time. Not that I really enjoy playing with them but it seems like a fun project, especially with the amount of experimentation you can do. Like most of my projects, I start with a prototype. Like a […]
Finished the Router Table I managed to get my hands on a SawStop router lift and downdraft dust collection box. This finishes up my SawStop Router Table I’m putting together a detailed write-up on the assembly of each of the components as well as some of the tests I ran on it afterward. My initial
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There have been some major changes in my shop. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to actually build anything but that should change soon. The picture above shows my table saw and outfeed table. I took this photo because I knew that this was the cleanest my shop would be for quite a while. New Cast-Iron
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It’s been a few months since my last update and a few people have asked if I was still around. Here’s what’s been going on… Death In The Family Sadly, my family was dealt a tragic blow with the death of my mother-in-law on March 1st. She was a truly inspiring person and one of
This is a continuation of Studio Desk – Part 4: Applying The Finish For me, all projects have a point where they start to fall apart. This is what happened here. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with how the desk turned out but I also have a few things that I really want to change.
This is a continuation of Studio Desk – Part 3: Assembling the Racks Now that the components are built, they’re ready to be stained and finished. I was going for a specific look that I think worked but I’m having my doubts that I’ll be happy with it in the long run. I
The top and bottom are ready to be stained and finished. I’m going a bit out of order at this point. I have already finished the top and the underside of the bottom but I’m going to bundle that in with my next post. Here, I’m going to show how I assembled the carcases for
The tops and bottoms are cut to size and glued up. The next step is to fix a few mistakes and apply the roundovers so I can stain and finish them. Fixing my mistakes I make a lot of mistakes. More than I would like. I made a few while I was routing out
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I finally settled on a design for my studio desk. It needed to fit into the breakfast nook, be mobile, and house the various racks of gear needed to record music. I went through almost 20 designs before I settled on this one, not because it was the best, but because I knew I would
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A lot has happened in the past few weeks that has kept me from updating my blog. I’ll try to summarize the important bits. Recording for Bright & Shiny I spent some time working on a few more tracks for Bright & Shiny as well as reworking a few older tracks that I wasn’t
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