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fairgrounds roll that fabulous bench building footage while it is a sweet little bench it measures a diminutive four feet long it has yet to really see a woodworking project built on it it ended up serving as an entry table at my apartment catching ballcaps and cans of sunscreen spray but no more now in its new location the bench is getting set to get some work done experiences you say goodbye and i say hello april 9 2017 tom 3 comments this past friday morning rhonda and i sat in a judge s chambers and finalized the divorce that chapter in my life has closed and with it there was one other major item which needed to be finalized you see the tools in the garage were still there and i had to get them out so i ran back to my old apartment changed into some grubby clothes and packed my furniture and kitchen items for the next day s move to my new place you see i had to wait until the mover was ready to go to the old house so i could move the tools out so i burned time boxing up the last few items for the next day s domestic move at the appointed hour i ran back to the old family home and found the garage door open the tools ready to move i spent the first half hour ensuring that everything was boxed up and ready to go after that i started wheeling what i could outside to the driveway to get ready for the movers it was amazing to see what i had stored up in the shelves wood i had meant to use for projects tools i hadn t seen in years oh that s where that adjusting wrench got off to with everything just about dragged out of the garage the movers showed up three guys one truck swagger a plenty i discovered that monster energy drink is mover fuel i warned the guys that some of the stuff was heavy but they laughed we ll let you know if it s heavy said mike the leader of the crew and just like that they sprung into action since they charge by the hour i asked how long they thought they were going to be we will have it done in half an hour i looked at the bench the band saw the wood i thought holy smokes it would take me a weekend to move this by myself as i stood there trying to calculate how much professional massage therapy it would take to fix my back one of the guys brushed past me thickness planer in hand like he was picking up a shoebox holding dainty ballet slippers dang i got out of the way and it all went onto the truck all of it one piece after another they didn t even need a lift gate up the ramp it went and it got secured to the walls of the truck with heavy webbing dang the hardest part was the move of my old workbench it did take all three of the guys to hoist it up onto the truck but after a little bit of cursing they finished and closed up the gate dang they drove off out of sight i turned and looked back at the empty shop the shelves i had built were still there my drill press that a neighbor wanted was still there there was plenty of sawdust everywhere but it was empty again a garage i hit the button dropped the door and headed back to my new apartment time to set up my new shop in a rented one car garage and i have an idea of what my next woodworking project might be shop talk things have changed march 26 2017 tom 18 comments it has been nearly 16 months since my last post to tom s workbench since then a lot has changed in my world i grew some more gray hair my oldest son graduated high school and went off to college i got a new job oh and probably most pertinent to this blog i am in the final stages of getting divorced yes that last change is the one that has tossed everything into the air for me i moved out of my house in january of 2016 and have been living in an apartment since i do not hate my ex wife i do not wish her ill many of the problems we had in our relationship were my fault and i have told her so and take full responsibility for them the time has come to move on part of this moving on process involves the shop or should i now say garage of the family home that s where 18 years worth of tools memories and learning the craft of woodworking took place and now that we have reached an agreement i have to re imagine my woodworking and reduce the number of tools in the shop one of the greatest inspirations i have had during this process was the work of vic tesolin and his book the minimalist woodworker vic s observations included the profound realization that no you don t need a fully stocked professional shop to crank out woodworking projects a more modest collection of fundamental hand and power tools paired with some easily built shop appliances can do the trick just nicely so for the past month i made a list of the critical tools i would need to take for my new shop setup i asked myself a basic question what would it take for me to build a bookshelf or a wooden chest with that as my starting point i wrote down the ideas as quickly as they came to me my track saw my routers some clamps my tormek to keep tools sharp hand saws chisels planes i also threw a few other ideas on that list as well for instance while no one would ever call a pocket screw a classic joint they can prove indispensable for building cabinets armed with this list i entered the garage to see the old familiar tools i haven t touched in more than a year it could almost be described as a surreal experience things were obviously not arranged as i had them but that s ok this space is no longer mine and it is my responsibility to get it turned over to its rightful owner working with a few friends i boxed and labeled what i wanted to take and loaded those items into my buddy s van those are going to my new workshop the other items that pain me to part with the table saw band saw dust collector drill press well i worked with the st petersburg woodcrafters guild they agreed to buy those tools for pennies on the dollar and resell them with the benefits going back to fund the guild while it killed me to lose them i knew they were going to good use i wasn t going to be paying through the nose for storage until a new more permanent shop situation opened for me and i when i do replace those tools i could get the latest and greatest safety features on them by the end of the day i was sore but the shop was ready for the movers to come in and unload the tools i closed the garage door for the last time as the shop walked to my car and drove home with the essential tools in tow facing a future that was wildly different than the one i used to know shop talk first things first and this is the last december 10 2015 tom 33 comments nine years ago i was but a wee lad bright eyed and bushy tailed full of vim and vigor marc spagnuolo my woodworking svengali asked if i would be interested in writing a few guest posts for him once i started writing three articles a week for him and he had only asked for maybe one every two weeks or so he asked me dude would you want to set up your own blog oops i guess i went a little overboard with the writing and for the first seven years of this blog i adhered to my rigid posting schedule of four posts a week articles on monday and wednesday the link of the week on friday and the quick poll on sundays believe me it was a ton of fun but it was also a ton of work on average i was spending anywhere between 12 and 15 hours each week every week on the blog to meet my self imposed deadlines it was a thrill i was in demand asked to speak at and later serve on the board of directors for the local woodworking guild i started attending woodworking meet ups heck i even got the attention of sponsors companies such as microjig infinity cutting tools tormek bora tools bell forest products laguna eagle america i was asked to join dyami plotke and chris adkins on the modern woodworkers association podcast and i have met so many interesting and awesome folks wood magazine even approached me and had me write a column for their magazine i was doing online content for popular woodworking it was crazy then i realized something it wasn t all of a sudden but it had been building over the past year i am starting to feel a little like lucy ricardo joined by her friend ethel mertz on the candy wrapping line suddenly instead of getting all of the candies wrapped beautifully for packaging i was rushing to just get them out sunday night would roll around and i would look into the shop in terror and panic realizing i hadn t done any woodworking but i had to write something basically i m discovering that i just can t maintain this second job my primary job and my sanity all at once that being said it pains me to make this announcement effective today i will be putting tom s workbench on an indefinite hiatus does this mean the site is going away no i will continue to maintain it so you can go back and check out the articles i have written does this mean i am going to crawl away into a cave and disappear from the face of the planet nope i will still post to twitter and google plus as i finish projects and seek the wealth of advice of the woodworking community what it does mean however is that i am going to get a little much needed balance back into my life and spend some of the time i have been writing about woodworking to actually get back into the shop and do some of it isn t that why i have all of those tools in the first place in the meantime please e mail my trained shop monkey at iggy tomsworkbench com if you have any questions and be sure to get some time for sawdust therapy trust me you need it last minute elf mele kalikimaka from the shop december 10 2015 tom 1 comment our final last minute elf winner comes from our friend doug moulder who just blew me away with his entry again very simple once you get the hang of it and elegant here s two sets of shaker oval boxes that i just finished making for my sister s christmas present i got all the information on how to from the may june no 247 issue of fine woodworking pages 38 43 by pete baxter the video matt kenney on finewoodworking com extras it was great on watching how to do the bending they are pretty quick to make after you make the bending and drying forms and practice some on the bending technique one set 2 3 4 size is walnut sides with clear quartersawn douglas fir top and bottom and the other 3 piece set is mahogany sides and the top is quarter sawn sycamore lacewood i don t care how they were built they are stunning very well made and executed who wouldn t want something like a set of those in their home doug since getting nice straight cuts is essential for that kind of work our friends at infinity cutting tools want you to have a super premium blade to make sweet cuts that s why infinity cutting tools will be sending one of their super general thin kerf 10 saw blades they are a very cool blue easy on the ears and leave a beautiful cut line congratulations doug hope you enjoy it last minute elf up on the workbench quick quick quick december 9 2015 tom 2 comments day three of the last minute elf and we have a stunner of a project for you from our friend mike boulant i ll let mike tell you a little bit about these honeys these photos are 2 dartboard cabinets i made for my brother and brother in law this year these were two of the most complex projects i have attempted but there wasn t a ton of material and it only took 1 day to get all the components milled and cut to final size including the joinery so the time criteria should count as a last minute elf project what took the remainder of the time approximately 2 weeks was the finishing process i used arm r seal for the first time the dry time between coats is much longer than i am used to with spray lacquer i pre finished all of the door panels and interior parts because i was worried of messing up the cork on the back and i figured i would get better results that way i ended up doing about 4 coats of gloss and 2 coats of satin for the final top coats i sanded between each coat with 360 grit and 600 for the final coat i used 4 4 cherry for the case and veneered the 1 4 mdf door panels with walnut my inspiration for the project came from two sources initially i watched brian grella s video series on his cabinets i took the inspiration for the cloud lifts on the doors from him but i love the chunky box joints for the case construction that marc spagnuolo has used on some of his pieces i m proud of how these turned out and hopefully they will be enjoyed for years to come wow mike i m gonna tell you those are some impressive gifts and since you said that finishing was one of the problems you experienced with the piece well do you have an awesome piece of tooling coming your way how about an earlex spray station hv2901 which will allow you to get into the wonderful world of spray finishes and the efficiency of an hvlp system use it in good health and we look forward to the other projects you have up your sleeve in the future last minute elf jingle to the shop december 8 2015 tom leave a comment you know for the past eight plus years i have been doing this blog i have been thoroughly impressed by the creativity of the readers when they have sent in projects for contests and when they just want to show them off today s last minute elf winner is no exception this incredible looking frame made by steve henry features gorgeous curly maple and a sweet looking live edge where on earth did he source this awesome looking material let me have steve tell you here s a live edge picture frame made from some curly maple rescued from the firewood pile makes a nice impression at zero cost the firewood pile holy smokes now that would have been a huge loss had been turned to ash not only does steve s project meet last minute elf specs it also gets the cheap elf stamp of approval a project that sweet deserves a sweet prize pack so steve when you find yourself out in the field trying to get some awesome straight line cuts our friends at bora tools want to send you their wtx 50 inch saw guide the 50 inch extension that s 100 inches of cutting length and their bora saw 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