All around shop tips

[webbaldo]

Heres my few sorry 2 of them are repeats off other threads

Silicone Holder
After getting sick of caulk tubes rolling off my small shelves, I made this



Alu Trim Drilling Jig



I made this just using scrap wood, and fitted it to my drill press base. Its a kinda mini drill press table.



I built it to drill the holes regularly and accurately in all my trim. Ive marked 4inch lines either side, all my trim has fixings 4inchs apart.




Finally the bit at the front is to lock in place the half round molding when drilling it. It just bolts to the table.

2 Router/Kreg Jigs


Helped to make round edges for cabinets, tables etc


And the other is a right angle jig I used to build all my cabinet framing using a pocket hole screw jig from kreg. (The cheapest one), wrote all the measurements on back as well!




As you can see us brits use metric and imperial measurements at the same time lol!, best of both worlds. Hope these help someone else! I picked the ideas up from around the net.

Router Jig
Just made this tool add-on as I thought it would help. Its an offset router base. Considering the amount of plywood i'll be rounding off I thought this would help.

They are commercially available but with a bit of 1/2" perspex and a knob off an old wood plane it was easy to make! I now only lose 3/8 off the available plunge depth, but the extra stability working on edging is well worth it.

[webbaldo]

Getting back on track, I keep an empty 2 qt Gatorade or juice bottle on my workbench for disposing of old nails, screws, razor blades, etc. Keeps them out of my tires plus it makes it easy for disposal when the bottle gets full. Screw on the lid and drop in the garbage can.

Larry,
I like your idea and will be implementing it immediately! It will save me trips to the local discount tire.
Take care,
Tom

I second, brilliant idea, im always finding screws within ft of my cars

[mezmo]

Take that container full of discarded metal fasteners etc. along
with you when you go to the scrap metal buyers along with
your other scrap metals. Over a year or two you can accumulate
enough total scrap metal to make it worth your time usually.

[RandyG]

I have one of those plastic miter guides with a hand saw, but most of my cuts arent staight. So I had some scrap 3/4 mdf and made this.



I just made the fence and cut into it with my skill saw, where the cut in the guide was is where I line up my marks. And it comes out straight!

[oakinteriors1]

I have used a giant table and my "flyswatter" router sled to cut side profiles and round table tops and the radiused trusses for the caboose. You can duplicate part after part with no variations in the items.

That router set up works for building these also....


And I have other tools I had made to aid in woodworking over the last 30 years...
http://s147.photobucket.com/user/scrawf ... t=3&page=1

[aggie79]

Using some scrap MDF, I made this jig to cut t-molding on the miter saw.



The slot of the jig is parallel to the fence of the miter saw. The vertical leg of the t-molding is inserted into the slot.



Align the cut mark and make the cut. (A 90-degree cut is shown, but the same jig can be used for angles.)



Until you decide to remove it, the slot captures the t-molding and cut-off.

[Irmo Atomics]

I used some slotted angle left over from hanging my garage doors to hold my screwdrivers, spade bits, etc.

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and some baseboard with nails in it to hang my box-end wrenches from

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[oakinteriors1]

Easy drawers to make,without slides...

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[JohnSw]

I've used a sharpened 3" sheetrock taping knife to cut foam. Works great. This video explains it very well....

http://www.finehomebuilding.com/item/76 ... insulation


Lots of other tips on the fine homebuilding site but most are construction related.

John

[oakinteriors1]

Turn a 3x21 sanding belt to a block sander..

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I got tired of those Ryobi batteries not lasting and the drills were giving up so I got a porter cable drill at a pawn shop.... But some of my Ryobi tools are still good...So I gutted an old battery and adapted it...

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