Even though it's still a balmy +10C here, the temperature is slowly dropping. How long does it take to get used to a new shop? A few months it seems, getting to know your neighbors, the sketchy kids that like to hang around at night. All part of being in an industrial area! Anyways my mahogany box kinda went on the back burner for a while and is still simmering on low. I actually did get a commission for a wall cabinet. The design has of course been done to death, just a bow front wall cabinet with some glass. Im still waiting on the glass and some finishing touches to do here and there. But she's pretty much done!
Got a new toy too. Still figuring out how to use it, but its proved to be very useful thus far. For once i know exactly what to build next. Re-visiting that oval table i made last year. I enjoyed making it but i really effed up the leg joinery. After drawing, thinking, re-drawing and thinking some more, i THINK i figured out the leg joinery once and for all. in this version i get to keep a rounded top ring but still have the sliding dovetail joinery work out. i'm working on a test corner first before i start messing with templates and stuff.
Even though it's still a balmy +10C here, the temperature is slowly dropping. How long does it take to get used to a new shop? A few months it seems, getting to know your neighbors, the sketchy kids that like to hang around at night. All part of being in an industrial area! Anyways my mahogany box kinda went on the back burner for a while and is still simmering on low. I actually did get a commission for a wall cabinet. The design has of course been done to death, just a bow front wall cabinet with some glass. Im still waiting on the glass and some finishing touches to do here and there. But she's pretty much done!
Got a new toy too. Still figuring out how to use it, but its proved to be very useful thus far. For once i know exactly what to build next. Re-visiting that oval table i made last year. I enjoyed making it but i really effed up the leg joinery. After drawing, thinking, re-drawing and thinking some more, i THINK i figured out the leg joinery once and for all. in this version i get to keep a rounded top ring but still have the sliding dovetail joinery work out. i'm working on a test corner first before i start messing with templates and stuff.
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I've been pondering the laguna slot mortiser, love to hear you thoughts on its build.
Tyler
i wouldnt say it's perfect, there are some issues, but for the price i dont think it can be beat. i was going to go with the Hammer machine BUT...the machine's price somehow went from being 1300 to about 2400 in a few years. Same machine, twice the price.
I havent really put the machine through the ringer yet, but i mean it cuts holes and the table moves around. Jacques said something about there being a lot of run out on it. i havent checked it myself but sometimes dowels are nice and tight sometimes they are loose but do tighten up with some glue. it's either my technique or the dowels being compressed differently.
i still have to figure out how to dowel on it. im thinking clamping it on the table and moving the table with my hands. as long as i dont move it diagonally, i should be fine,
in short, its a great buy for the price.
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