The last thing I want to show you with the table saw is this little Kick Switch, it is a really good safety percussion here essentially, you have to be able to put your finger through the whole and actually you know with some effort turning the saw on and very easy to turn this saw off. You just kick it, it turns it off so the idea is to make a very difficult to turn it on but really easy to turn it off and I just find that to be a really good safety edition to your any table saw.
Now across from my table saw, I have three other tools I got a Powermatic Plainer, it is a tool that basically will yield a flat and parallel surface and just shaves off material from the top over piece of wood. I got my scroll saw I used that for lots of to get a little curve cuts, also used it from marketry and cutting my inlay pieces and over here is great luxury to have in the shop if you can afford it. It is a Drum Sander perform much drum sander. Essentially in theory, it sort of does the same thing as a plainer but you got to be a lot more careful with it, it is a lot more gentle and not to use a sand paper instead of blades to give you that flat parallel surface. Really is for finishing it is not so much milling material down the size.
Against the door over here Drill Press, I got a nice selection of this and my miter saw. Another essential tool that I have is my serious satellite radio, my ipod were I listen to all my pod cast and a little bit of Huey Louise. On this side of the shop right behind me, you could see is supposed to be my scrap storage area and some of my exotic woods storage and also a turning area but unfortunately it has temporarily turned into a garage sale extra crop area.
Over here I got a cross cutting sort of panel, horizontal panel saw if you will made by Festool, again that is a really nice luxury to have but do not have a full scale panel saw so this really helps me cut down large pieces of plywood in a short of a time.
Did you ever wanted to know how to drill a square hole? This machine is the way to do it, it is a Hollow Chisel Mortiser, if you do a lot of work or you are going to have a lot of Mortises, these tools really indispensable. It can save you a lot of time, you can make Mortise with the router, you can do it by hand but this guy, it is really can use save you a bunch of time.
It works kind of like a Drill Press with a sort of vertical action. I got a little charging station next to that and this is my Oscillating Spindle Sander again, it is just one of those specialize tools really the one trick ponies sort of tool but when you need a tool like this there is just not a whole lot else out there that will do that job.
Now living in a dessert in Arizona one major challenge is trying to stop the wood movement especially you will be surprise most of them come in they look like a nice and flat but then they are shipped in from some place, I do not know Northern California, the East Coast, places where there is a lot of moisture than there is here. So by the time I can get them in my shop and I lay him flat and I am getting ready for a project, they dry a little bit more and the things turn into a potato chips. So I had to come up with the way to store them and keep them flat an also just make it really convenient from myself. So I got this rack here a vertical rack that I built and I have this venire press screws, I got three of them over the length of each piece of plywood and just tighten them up and pushes them against the support on the side and it is a good way for me to store them nice and flat as the moisture you know leave the piece of plywood, by the time I am ready to use it, it is still nice and flat and it is just a really good convenience especially for someone who lives in a climate like I do.
Come over here we got some safety item storage, whatever storage, very cool tape storage, junk storage, we do not go out there very often, I do not recommend it. I have got most of my heavy duty lumber storage up here. Where the shop this tall it is a really good idea to make use some of this some of a vertical space if you can, it can be a little bit dangerous getting this stuff down but if you keep your wits(ph) around you that should not be a problem.
Under the lumber racks you could see I have got dissent amount of clamps, it has been said before and I will say it again you can never have too many clamps. It may look like I got enough but when you are in the middle of gluing up three or four different things at the same time and you are run out of clamps you are going to be a pretty upset so definitely buys many clamps as you can, yeah.
So over here and the center of the back portion of the shop, I got a Torsion Box assembly table, this is basically is something that I learn from watching wood works and learned from David Marks. A Torsion Box is essentially a honey comb structure, the idea is we want a dead flat surface, we do not like this things ever bend, to move or anything so if you think in a way a honeycomb is designed it is designed for strength essentially, even though it is a hollow structure. Same concepts you know but we were just doing right angles and in terms of actual interior structure made out of MDF and built years ago and it is still dead flat today.
On the assembly table right now you can see them in the middle of a little poker chip tray project here, I am writing an article for a magazine and hopefully it will be published, we will see but this are pretty cool little poker chip trays.
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