Work stool

Stand-up desks are all the rage at work.  There's supposed to be all kinds of health benefits, you stay more alert, etc, etc.  I moved desks at work so I'm trying it for the time being.  We'll see how it goes.

Anyway, a co-worker uses a stand-up desk and his china made stool broke into pieces.  Fortunately no one was hurt.  The top part was still good so I made a new base.

The legs are made from a nice tuba-for.

The dowel cross members have a walnut wedge to hold the joint tight.  These are super strong.

Grizzly dust collector

Here's my assembled dust collector.  I finally got a chance to fire it up tonight.  I had to run a 30amp, 220v line.  My breaker box is officially full so no more 220 volt tools unless I can piggyback off something unimportant, like a water heater or AC.

I have to build a stand for the filter.  That green canister above the filter is a 'muffler' that was not designed very well to fit this machine.  It is an add-on, but still.  There is no way to properly install this with the included filter brackets.  You would have to twist the gray flex tube into a pretzel which impedes good airflow.  

Anyway, you can see how big this monster is.  It really moves a lot of air.  Next step is to somehow build some duct work to all my machines.  The inlet is 7" but it's hard to find hvac or plumbing material that size.  More to come on that...

300 pound shop vac

If this doesn't keep my shop clean I don't know what will.

TV stand/Entertainment center

Here's the entertainment center I've been working on for 2 months.  The top is recycled Walnut and the rest is wormy Ash.  It's a tank.  Glad grandpa's back held out for the trip up the stairs.

The base is painted with black milk paint then 'distressed' with sandpaper.  The pottery barn version of this is $1600.  I think I have $200 in this one after some craigslist lumber steals.

There will be doors added later.  I ran out of wormy Ash.  The ugly basket is temporary.  It holds all our Neilson rating equipment.  

Drawers are made of Cherry.

Magazine holders

I made 4 of these and they are all full already.  I didn't plan for future growth.

TV stand update

Shop update

It's been a while since I posted anything, but I can assure you that the shop has been a busy place.  You can tell by the chaos shown below.

Below is some of the bead work on an entertainment center I'm building.  For all you critics out there, that's not a gap in the one miter, it's a pencil mark.

Here's Drew giving Avery the business about shop safety.  Again for the critics, those are steel-toe ruby red slippers he is wearing.