This week I designed and built a quick bike rack to store my young children’s custom bikes from two 2×6’s. You can check out the two bikes in the DIY Bike Build. This project uses the table saw, miter saw and impact drill. A very basic design, it uses a number of myContinue reading “This Week in the Shop: The 2×6 #Bike Rack”
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Home #Makerspace: DIY Street Hockey Sticks
It’s winter here in Northern Virginia and my sons have discovered a strange and wondrous sport of the North:
Hockey!
Learn to build your own hockey sticks – and a technique that can be applied to all sorts of shop and furniture projects.
This Week In the Classroom: Curriculum Plan for Spring of 2011
Good week for struggles and not-quite-there-yets in the woodshop this week. Three projects left the floor complete. The first, chalkboard that has been wind-blown, vandalized and otherwise destroyed three times. We’ll see if it sticks this time. The other two projects I failed to take a picture of. On Mon or Tues, I’ll put upContinue reading “This Week In the Classroom: Curriculum Plan for Spring of 2011”
This Week in the Shop: Playhouse and How To Play in It
I just finished my son(s, I’m expecting another next month) Christmas gift: an outdoor playhouse. I used a router on table to create a half inch wide dado for the cedar edging. A cedar post with a deck cap from Lowes provides the stability. This project had some interesting design challenges. First, I couldn’t buildContinue reading “This Week in the Shop: Playhouse and How To Play in It”
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