Kerry Drake's Product Review – January 2010 Archive (5)

I've had a zero clearance insert sitting around my shop forever (a few years anyway) that I never go installed into my table saw. While working on the raised drawer fronts it became quickly apparent that I was going to have to do SOMETHING to keep the short end of the small drawers from falling into the blade opening of my standard insert while they were being cut, so I finally bit the bullet and figured out how to get the inset put in:…

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FINALLY, I'm starting to work on the next stage of the built in project. Spent several hours in the shop Sunday (no football for me) making up panels for the drawer fronts and cutting them down to final size.

All the drawers are 25 5/8" wide, the top row is 8" tall, middle row 11 1/8", and bottom row 15 5/8". 4 Drawer per row. They are going to get attached here:

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I don't really remember what I was doing when my wife uttered those words to me, not that it really mattered, whatever is was it was dropped like a bad habbit and I followed after her to see what she wanted.



"I want a box with shelf to go here in between these two windows so I can get some of this stuff off the kitchen counter."



Out came the tape measure (there is one in the kitchen for just such an emergency). We looked and discussed overall dimensions and off the… Continue

That's right, I generally prefer the newer shiny tools. I like fighting with that clear plastic vacuum packaging that is nearly impossible to open. I like holding the instruction manual and thinking "how hard can this really be.....?"



Recently, however, I had an offer from an extended family member to purchase a large lot of tools that were in her basement (she had just sold her house is moving south). I went over and looked everything over and walked away $100.00 poorer, but loaded… Continue

Shop Furniture creates no pressure on the builder, you can try new stuff if you want. You can build for you the way you think it should be.

















I designed this to fit my little router table because the router table USED to live on top of the wood stove, but that became impracticle when the snow started to… Continue