3, 2, 1, Ha, don't you wish it was that simple. Here's the next easiest thing.
I'm on a mission to clear out some scrap lumber. I've riffled through enough junk to find these
gnarly looking boards.
This one here has a fairly severe twist in it and normally you use a jointer to joint
one of the faces however, in small
shops jointers are a luxury of space and money, of which I have neither. Not to worry thou.
I have a thickness
planer and some garbage. I'm going to find the high spot on this board and fill in the
gap. Then I'll flip it over and
place my garbahge at that high spot. The next time your wife tells you to take out the trash,
tell her your saving it for just
the right occasion. Then enjoy your nights sleep on the couch. Layer some blue tape till
the movement in that twist is gone.
Now I can run it through my planer.
And you can see here after the first pass it just
takes off the material at that high point.
After a few passes you can
see the effect. Take off the tape and plane the other side.
whalah. A nice flat board
with no twist. Now the other
two sides will need to be jointed as well as this process leaves them out of square
but I'm not going to go into that here.
Time to edge glue these pieces together.
Once that is dry I'll trim them to size.
For a complete list of cuts and materials head off to my website. Simply easy diy dot
com. There you not only find
the design plans for this glue caddy. But you'll find design plans for a whole slew
of other projects.
That'll do nicely.
Pencils. I need something to hold them.
But Stan, why don't you just use a cup style holder dude?
Because I don't like those dust collecting, spider hiding death traps.
I'll set up a straight edge at an angle across my table saw. and run a board across it like
so. The steeper the
angle to the blade, the narrower the cove cut you get. To center the cove on the board
just flip it around and run
both sides along the straight edge. Take several light passes instead of doing it all at once
and you should
come out with something like this. Now that is just what I want to hold a few pencils.
Cove moulding as well as some pretty cool
designs in projects can be done with this simple trick if you just use a little bit
of imagination and some forethought.
I need spots for all my stuff because I can't be trusted otherwise. A hole here. And a hole here.
A mark there.
and a cut over there.
Warning: The following has been rated inappropriate for elitest woodworkers by the simple and
easy association.
Parantal guidence is suggested.
Here I go again. Eyeballing stuff. I'll drill a hole here.
Now the goal here is to follow
this line with the forstner bit.
So I'm going to switch to a smaller size and do the best I can. It always seems to drive
people nuts when I free hand stuff
So I never miss a chance to do it. Just call me Doctor evil. Wahahahaha. After I'm done
with all that I should get something that
comes close to holding this non round glue bottle.
Some more holes. I should have just titled this video how to drill holes or maybe just
holes or maybe I should have
this conversation with myself on my own time.
I only have two glue brushes but I'm not opposed to donations so I'll lay out for four. Alright
lets assemble.
Pretty straight forward really. Ninety degree clamps to assist.
Mark this day ladies and
gentlemen. The day I started doing stuff
simply because I was making a video. This is a shop project. I have no idea why i'm
adding dowels for something like
this. You know what they say. Start what you finish...err...wait...what is that they say.
Some sanding starting with 120 grit
and going up to 330. Then I'll apply three coats of lacquer. (Scoufs) Yeah right.
I love this pencil holder. Best Idea I've had so far.
Shop. Consider yourself organized.
Ohhh. Ahhhh. Yeeeaahh!