HALT! Hammerzeit!

Things have been super slow in the shop in the past few weeks due to me showing my student the ropes. Not to say things havent changed in the shop...
I had a very "AWWWWE" moment when the plane my student made her first super duper gossamer shaving with a plane she made! It somehow works better than mine...somehow..

Im showing her coopering, doweling and dovetails, we'll somehow get everything done for next week..








As you all know, i have a love/HATEHATEHATE relationship with my steel city bandsaw. I hate how it sucks and dies every now and then and love...cause im forced to love it for i have no other bandsa....


Oh hey Laguna, sup? =)

Monster isnt the word. 4.5 HP, 16"(smaller than the steel city) but man oh man does this thing ever CUT. I was re-sawing some 11" wide red oak for a wall cabinet and it was kinda like slicing through butter. The guides really freaked me out at first, yes they do spark quite a bit. It kinda stopped after a while, but it did sorta make me hesitant of buying the saw. Now this thing was caked in dust, as were the lower guides and there is no fire, no burning smell, no black soot, no nothing. Obviously Laguna wouldn't be able to sell a bandsaw that started fires....right? But what a saw...a carbide re-saw blade is in the works, now that'll be something....

Since i have a student 4 maybe 5 days a week for 3 weeks i havent been able to work on the drawers for that night table. Just paring the dovetails here and there. But i did get them done.











Honestly, i think i could have done a better job. Maybe not when i was cutting them, but after i cut these...

Yeah, my student wanted a crash course in dovetailing, so i grabbed some poplar and about 15-20 minutes later i had these. I even tried flaring the joint and yeah...I was shocked. I think these are my best dovetails to date. I know I know...poplar, but still. I'll try some half-blinds in maple just to make sure it wasn't a fluke.


AND last but not least, here's a mock up for a little wall cabinet im going to put together in red oak. I decided to put one drawer in the middle space and maybe one inside one of the doors. Im really excited to get started on it, kind of feels like when i first started woodworking. I feel energized and raring to make dust again!