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September 4, 2015
WFC 2015 Auction – Fuji Spray Q5 T70 Platinum System
Thanks to Fuji Spray we are kicking off Woodworkers Fighting Cancer with a great auction! You have until 7:00pm PST October 31st to place your bid. Good luck and remember 100% of the winning bid will go to Cancer Research Institute!
Important Note: You must use your full name and a valid email so we can contact you for questions. Please no fake bids, you will be banned from all of the auctions. If you are bidding outside of the US or Canada, you will need to pay for shipping separately. Please contact us for an estimated cost before bidding.
Be sure to check out the other auctions going on right now!
Eagle America
MicroJig
Rockler
Powermatic
Fuji Spray Q5 T70 Platinum System and consulting with Marc
Starting Bid: $100.00
Going for
$112.00 Winning: Matthew Kress
Ending On: October 31, 2015 7:00 pm
Description Bid Here Bids WatchThe winning bid of this charity auction will win a Fuji Spray Q5 T70 Platinum System and one year of WhisperCare consulting with Marc Spagnuolo. The retail value of the Q5 HVLP is $1299.99 and the value of the consulting with Marc...priceless (well technically $99 ;)
You must use your full name and a valid email so we can contact you for questions and if win. Please no fake bids, you will be banned from all of the auctions.
The winning bidder will be contacted via email with instructions for completing their purchase and will have 24 hours to complete their donation to Cancer Research Institute. If at that time, they have not completed their donation, the next bidder will be contacted as the winner of the auction.
100% of the winning bid will go to this years Woodworkers Fighting Cancer charity, Cancer Research Institute. Thanks everyone for participating!
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WFC 2015 Auction – Eagle America Ultimate Router Table Upgrade
Thanks to Eagle America we are kicking off Woodworkers Fighting Cancer with a great auction! You have until 7:00pm PST October 31st to place your bid. Good luck and remember 100% of the winning bid will go to Cancer Research Institute!
Everything included in this auction
The Ultimate Router Table Upgrade Package – Total Value of $1091.99
The Eagle Complete Router Table Package #415-4507 List Price $489.99
– This includes The Eagle Router Table Top, Phenolic Router Plate with
Insert Rings, X1 Router Table Fence, and Pro Router Table Stand as pictured on
EAGLE Router Table Top with Phenolic Insert Plate (#415-4505)
Eagle Made in the USA 12pc General Purpose Router Bit Set 1/2″ Shank
#100-1225 with a List Price of $313.00
Triton 3-1/4 HP Dual-Mode Plunge Router TRA001 List $289.00 #415-5631
1 Year of WhisperCare in the Wood Whisperer Guild – $99
Important Note: You must use your full name and a valid email so we can contact you for questions. Please no fake bids, you will be banned from all of the auctions. If you are bidding outside of the US or Canada, you will need to pay for shipping separately. Please contact us for an estimated cost before bidding.
Be sure to check out the other auctions going on right now!
Fuji Spray
MicroJig #1
MicroJig #2
Rockler #1
Rockler #2
Rockler #3
Powermatic
Eagle America Ultimate Router Table Upgrade and consulting with Marc
Starting Bid: $100.00
Going for
$355.00 Winning: Jarod Kuntz
Ending On: October 31, 2015 9:00 am
Description Bid Here Bids WatchThe winning bid of this charity auction will win an Eagle America Ultimate Router Table Upgrade and one year of WhisperCare consulting with Marc Spagnuolo. The retail value of the Ultimate Router Package Upgrade is $1091.99 and the value of the consulting with Marc...priceless (well technically $99 ;)
You must use your full name and a valid email so we can contact you for questions and if win. Please no fake bids, you will be banned from all of the auctions.
The winning bidder will be contacted via email with instructions for completing their purchase and will have 24 hours to complete their donation to Cancer Research Institute. If at that time, they have not completed their donation, the next bidder will be contacted as the winner of the auction.
100% of the winning bid will go to this years Woodworkers Fighting Cancer charity, Cancer Research Institute. Thanks everyone for participating!
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September 3, 2015
WFC 2015 Auction – Powermatic Drill Press
Thanks to Powermatic we are kicking off Woodworkers Fighting Cancer with a great auction! You have until 7:00pm PST October 31st to place your bid for a Powermatic PM2800B Drill Press. Good luck and remember 100% of the winning bid will go to Cancer Research Institute!
Important Note: You must use your full name and a valid email so we can contact you for questions. Please no fake bids, you will be banned from all of the auctions. If you are bidding outside of the US or Canada, you will need to pay for shipping separately. Please contact us for an estimated cost before bidding.
Be sure to check out the other auctions going on right now!
Eagle America
MicroJig #1
MicroJig #2
Rockler Dust Collection Bundle
Rockler Turning Bundle
Rockler Clamp Bundle
Fuji Spray
Powermatic PM2800B Drill Press and Consulting with Marc
Starting Bid: $100.00
Going for
$152.00 Winning: W J Ware
Ending On: October 31, 2015 7:00 pm
Description Bid Here Bids WatchThe winning bid of this charity auction will win a Powermatic PM2800B Drill Press and one year of WhisperCare consulting with Marc Spagnuolo. The retail value of the Drill Press is $1399.99 and the value of the consulting with Marc...priceless (well technically $99 ;)
You must use your full name and a valid email so we can contact you for questions and if win. Please no fake bids, you will be banned from all of the auctions.
The winning bidder will be contacted via email with instructions for completing their purchase and will have 24 hours to complete their donation to Cancer Research Institute. If at that time, they have not completed their donation, the next bidder will be contacted as the winner of the auction.
100% of the winning bid will go to this years Woodworkers Fighting Cancer charity, Cancer Research Institute. Thanks everyone for participating!
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W J Ware bid $152.00 on September 4, 2015 4:13 pm [increased max bid]W J Ware bid $152.00 on September 4, 2015 4:12 pmMatthew Kress bid $150.00 on September 4, 2015 4:09 pm [auto]W J Ware bid $150.00 on September 4, 2015 4:09 pmMatthew Kress bid $100.00 on September 4, 2015 3:27 pmEnter your email below to get notifications of new bids placed on the above item.
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Steve’s DIY Turntable
My love of music and audio gear goes back even further than my love of woodworking. As a kid I walked around town with a Sony boom box on my shoulder long before it was fashionable.
As I got older my quest for high-end audio equipment grew. I always wanted a really high quality, high mass turntable, but I just couldn’t sink that much money into it at the time. So a few years back I decided to build my own. I was able to source several used turntable parts along with a few new parts and built my own plinth from MDF.
My table is a look-a-like to a VPI Aries III, which I always loved, except a real Aries III is made from black acrylic and solid aluminum plate and hits the wallet at about 8 large!! I made mine from 3 layers of 1 1/8″ thick MDF and painted them black and silver to copy the look. The parts I found used were the actual Aries platter and main bearing and a Michelle Eng. Techno tone arm along with Aries cone feet. I had to purchase a new Aries motor and belt and a new center weight and outer stabilizer ring, then finished it off with a new Ortofon phono cartridge.
It wasn’t difficult to build, I just studied the specs and pics of a real Aries III turntable and went from there. The 3 layers of MDF are glued and screwed together. I textured the plinth with a roller and heavy primer then just sprayed it with rattle can paint.
I have never had the chance to compare it to a real Aries or to any other high end table but none the less, it sounds good to me and better than any of the cheaper turntables I have owned. Of course, it cost me more than any of those cheaper tables–it cost me about 2 grand to build!
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Auction
A collective list of all the live 2015 Woodworkers Fighting Cancer Charity Auctions
All bidding ends October 31st, 2015 at 7:00pm PST Remember there are lots of ways to particpate this year! You can donate directly to Cancer Research Institute or build this years charity build and submit a photo
Powermatic PM2800B Drill Press and Consulting with Marc
#1 Total Shop Safety Package from MICROJIG and consulting from Marc
#2 Total Shop Safety Package from MICROJIG and consulting from Marc
Rockler Dust Collection Bundle and consulting with Marc
Rockler Turning Bundle and consulting with Marc
Rockler Clamp Bundle and consulting with Marc
Fuji Spray Q5 T70 Platinum System and consulting with Marc
Eagle America Ultimate Router Table Upgrade and consulting with Marc
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September 2, 2015
Woodworking Not-So-Common Sense
As you can imagine in my line of work, I spend a lot of time helping new woodworkers solve problems. This gives me a unique perspective on the potential stumble point that most woodworkers will experience. Eventually, these things become woodworking common sense but until that time, I consider it woodworking not-so-common sense. So here are five tips that most woodworkers eventually figure out on their own.
Don’t Mill Too Far Ahead of Time
In case you haven’t noticed yet, wood moves. Not only is moisture a factor, sometimes boards move due to improper drying practices or intrinsic pressure within the board. So when we mill our stock flat and square it’s important to realize it might not stay that way for long. To safeguard against this, I recommend milling your boards as-needed. Once the joinery is cut, you can usually let the boards do their thing. But if you try cutting your joints a week after the stock was milled, you might find that your boards are no longer flat and that’s just no fun at all! Obviously some projects and some circumstances will require you to mill your stock well ahead of time and it isn’t the end of the world. This is just something to keep in mind as you strategize your projects and your shop time.
Don’t Chase Thousandths
Feeler gauges and dial calipers are great for setting up tools but you have to be careful not to get lost in the numbers. If you find yourself spending days dialing in a tool to the nearest thousandth, it’s time to pinch it off and get some woodworking done! In fact, one of the best ways to give your tools a reality check is to simply make a sample cut and check the results with a straight edge or square, as the case may be. If your eyes don’t see an issue, then there probably isn’t one.
Always Drill Pilot Holes
I might be stating the obvious when I say that screws displace wood. Sometimes the wood will give and allow the screws to drive through with no adverse effects. But in denser wood species, the wood isn’t quite so forgiving and the screw simply causes the board to split along the grain. As a rule of thumb, drilling appropriate-sized pilot holes will go a long way toward preventing splits. By removing a column of wood, you give the body of the screw a place to go as the threads cut into the surrounding material. So keep those small drill bits handy if you plan to use screws in your projects.
Use Cauls with your Clamps
Clamps are typically made from plastic and metal which are harder than the wood we use them on. As a result, the wood often dents under pressure. The worst part of this situation is that the dents aren’t all that noticeable until the finish is applied, which is obviously the worst time to discover an issue. To prevent this, use a piece of scrap wood between the clamp and the work, also known as a caul. The caul not only protects the workpiece but also helps distribute clamping pressure as an added bonus.
Don’t Surround Solid Panels with a Frame
If I had a dollar for every time I see this fundamental woodworking rule broken, I’d be a very rich man! OK maybe not but I’d at least have enough money for a few tanks of gas in the wood hauler! Solid wood expands and contracts across it’s width. When the humidity goes up, the wood expands. When the humidity goes down, the wood contracts. The wider the panel, the more substantial the movement becomes. This is why you can sometimes ignore this wood movement issue on smaller projects like decorative boxes. But if you ignore the rules of wood movement on something as large as a table top, you’ll pay the price sooner or later.
One of the most common mistakes I see is when a wood panel is surrounded by a frame. The frame locks the panel into its current size and does not allow the panel to expand and contract. Over time, this will lead to joints opening up and most likely the destruction of the frame. A lot of people scoff at people who are overly-concerned about wood movement so perhaps a few pictures will help illustrate my point. Below you’ll see before and after photos from a fellow woodworker Brent, owner of Houzz-2-Home.
Obviously, Brent is no slouch when it comes to skill and execution. But as a self-taught woodworker, there was apparently one important detail he never learned and simply discovered on his own the hard way: don’t frame a solid wood panel. As you can see, in spite of well-executed joints including reinforcement with biscuits and pocket screws, the table is self-destructing. Brent emailed me for advice on a fix and the sad news is that there is no repair that will make this table stable and attractive. The only (a word you’ll rarely see me use) solution is to either create a new top or to dismantle the current top and try to rework it into a new design.
When building your projects, I recommend visiting some of those online movement calculators to see just how much your boards might expand or contract: Wood Shop Widget, Wood Movement Estimator, Shrinkage Calculator
If you have other tips/tricks, leave them in the comments section and perhaps we’ll do more of these videos in the future.
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August 31, 2015
Woodworkers Fighting Cancer 2015
This year’s Woodworkers Fighting Cancer charity event is going to be better than ever! All proceeds are going directly to the Cancer Research Institute. The 2015 project is the Kids Table & Chair set and if you’d like to build along, download the free plans and templates below. Keep an eye out for the full project video to be released in the next week or two. For each person who builds the project and sends us a picture, we’ll personally donate $5 to the charity. And if you’re a YouTuber and you make a video of your build, we’ll donate $10 to the cause! Send us your photos and links here. Deadline is November 30th, 2015.
Sketchup Plan – Metric Version
PDF Plan/Cutlist – Metric Version
8×11 Printable Template
Full Size Template
Build-a-Thon
On Friday September 4th at 11am Eastern we are having the first ever Build-a-Thon. I’ll spend the entire day building the Kids Table & Chair Set while broadcasting live. You can view the live stream on our live page or directly on YouTube. During the even we’ll have live Q&A and we’ll also pick Guild project winners at the top of every hour. Simply donate $25 or more directly to the charity and your name will be entered for that hour. The end time for the event is unknown but we expect it to run at least 8 hours.
Sponsors
We’d like to thank our sponsors for helping us out with this event. They include Powermatic, Fuji Spray, MicroJig, Rockler, Eagle America, and Bell Forest Products. Keep an eye out for the charity auctions featuring products from our sponsors!
Keep up with the latest at WoodWorkersFightingCancer.com or follow us on Facebook!
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August 26, 2015
Luke’s Bench
This project was a way of moving forward for my wife and I after our sweet seven-month old passed away in January. I wanted/needed some way to honor him and designing and building a bench to take the place of his crib made sense.
It’s made from walnut. I used the Domino XL for all of the joints in the base. I REALLY enjoy using that tool. I am certain I couldn’t have made this any other way. The unique leg on the bench is a reference to our boy’s clubbed right leg. It was the first evidence to my wife and I of his genetic condition and it will always remind us of him. I was able to cut the shape with my track saw (TS75) using the plunge feature to start and stop my cuts. I took the time to make a prototype out of plywood to practice which was extremely helpful.
I beveled the ends of the top with my track saw as well, but given its thickness I was only able to cut about 95% through. I used a flush trim saw for the rest and it came out great. As a second special feature, on the underside I made a shallow cavity to hold our boy’s ashes and we sealed it with a simple cover made from some of the lighter-colored walnut we had ordered.
I prepared the piece for finishing with a my sander (a Rotex 125, which I confess is still a bit hard for me to control even in random orbit mode) and scrapers. Since I was on a roll with the Festool system, I decided on the Surfix oil-wax finish. I love how the piece feels to the touch.
The Wood Talk crew was kind enough to help me out when they offered their advice on attaching the top to the base (the “Freaky Teaky Crud” episode). It occurred to me during my dry fit that I could attach the top using the method Marc used in his trestle table project so I wound up using oversized countersunk screw holes through the existing support pieces. I’m honored and grateful that the Wood Talk guys took the time to discuss my question (THANK YOU!). The design of the base is largely inspired by the work of Jory Brigham of Festool/Framework fame. I don’t mind saying that one bit. I didn’t add radiuses to the inside-angles or round-overs like many of his pieces, but I owe a lot to his influence.
Overall, I’m very pleased with the result. Our other son who is 3 years old loves to sit on it. Despite his age he understands that this piece is special. I’m not a particularly skilled or experienced woodworker, but I really feel like I was able to make something that is meaningful, beautiful, and lasting.
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August 24, 2015
Tom’s Command Center
A co-worker asked if I would be interested in making some type of “Command Center” of sorts for his church to keep their video and sound system equipment. As you can see, they were using a folding table. Two things they wanted, something that looked nice and would provide some security for the components. (Keep the kids from turning knobs)
After measuring each component’s overall size, I went to work with Sketch-up. Originally we were going to paint it, but after I found out that Birch plywood was about the same cost as Oak plywood, we decided to go with the Oak. With buying Oak timber from the local saw mill I got started. This unit’s overall size is 28”H x 30”D and 60”L. All but the inner shelf is Oak.
The Sketch-up design I show demos’ how the front door opens and swings out of the way. Plus the roll top view of the control panel. Not shown in that picture is a drawer I added for storage. The other picture showing the unfinished opened view helps explain too.
This project challenged me in several ways, This was the first time I made a tambour roll top. It was also the first time using edge banding as well as the first time I used my HVLP sprayer with semi-gloss polyurethane. Even with several blemishes with the banding and some in the finish, I was very pleased. On the roll top I started to use the cable system and was not happy with the tightness of the segments. I ended up using canvas. That worked out well.
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August 23, 2015
Thank You Hybrid
Thanks for trying my book! Please enjoy your free chapter and if you like what you see and read, consider coming back to purchase the full book. Best of luck on your woodworking journey!
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