That’s very kind of you to say, @Sasquatch. Very kind. Thank you!
It was my great honor to serve this nation as I’m sure it was my Father’s and my Texas girlies Uncle! Her Father was also a Marine. We had that in common. He was a good man and a friend!
I’ve done the maths, my friend. You lost your Father at a very young age.
You have my sincere condolences for your loss and your lifetime without him.
I thank him for his service, too! #Salute
Regards,
WHAB
I thought I would never need a table saw ever again. The Festool system is very good at most common woodworking tasks. Not this one!
I won’t be making Burial Flag Display Cases as a Side Hustle, that’s for sure!
I plan to get out to my brothers shop on the next fair weather day, the 18th (I think)…set his saw up (it’s never even been used - a brand new Grizzly) then make a tenoning jig to make the 4 22.5 degree cuts.
I have the materials to make the jig at the ready…just need the weather to cooperate! 
I hope the weather is being kind to you,. my Northern friend!
Regards,
WHAB
I lied, @Rhino_buddy!
Spaghetti Sunday’s is ONLY made with HOT Italian Sausage! Anything less isn’t worth making or eating, imo…as a self-respecting omnivore, that is
It was very nearly Spaghetti Sunday Monday BUT I made it under the wire, barely!
Spaghetti Sunday Monday’s are reserved for Spaghetti Sunday leftovers!
Please forgive my blatant LIE!
Oh, AND…make it a great week, brother!
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WHAB
Lastly, I was only cutting the nailing blocks for the partition wall in the under-loft but I really wanted to try the new Waste-Side accessories.
That’s SWEET!
The joists these nailing blocks are going in between are anything but square and wholly undeserving of accurately cut and square pieces but it was neat testing them out regardless!
I also figured out the Plumb Bob issue.
I have a Craftsman LaserTrac laser level I used on a floating floor several years ago…the floor I was laying it on didn’t have a flat level spot anywhere on it. I had to shim the entire floor - 14 feet by 18 feet, I’m pretty sure…with different size shims at nearly EVERY contact point throughout the space. Way out of flat and level!
I have never used it as a plumb bob but it looks like it is going to work okay in that role. I actually forgot it had that capability! It is not a self-leveling laser. It has a adjustment knob on the frame (2 actually, but for plumb it only uses 1) and I noticed the bubble level moved when I stepped on the floor next to it. I had to reset it and try not to move it while I was marking the ledger board on one side and the rim joist on the other. It will be close enough, I figure!
Also, I didn’t make progress yesterday because I had to review the ideas I had when I originally decided to build out the attic - what seems like an eternity ago!
While I knew I’d be using the knee wall under the floor to build on, I didn’t know exactly where that that knee wall landed on the top side of classroom floor,
I had to figure that out again with hard numbers. Then I had to try to recall what my original plans were.
That green edge of the underlayment is the edge of the under floor access I made out of what they put down…they didn’t have an actual access to that space. I knew the knee wall was left of it but I didn’t know exactly where. The CL above the word Knee is the Center Line of the classroom floor. I had no idea where that was until I measured it out yesterday. A lot of my plans were basic mental plans without actual dimensions.
Then where the partition wall will be put up relative to the previous picture. About a foot to the left of the center line and knee wall.
I ‘may’ have to cut another access panel on the other side of that knee wall to better support the roof trusses I’m going to modify when I get to that point in the build. You cannot get to that side of the under floor right now.
I ‘may’ have to duplicate what I have planned on the East end of the space for the West end. A couple more Lally Columns on top of gravel, solid cement blocks and a built-up beam on top of that that will support the East wall all the way up to the attic (and stabilize the washer and dryer from shaking the floor in its current unsupported condition - it rock and rolls!).
That’s out of the way now!
Good morning, everyone!
Make it a great week! 
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WHAB
You are making a great gow space there,
Those spacers are cool! Gonna have to check out their stuff! Good work man! You’re living my dream. 
Good morning, friend!
Thank you. One hopes!
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WHAB
Hello, brother!
I was hoping when I posted that that you ‘might’ find it interesting. Mission success! 
I know they’ll will make anything I cut all the more easier! Otherwise, without them, every measurement is measured from the left end of the board, the end that’s under the guide rail. IF you’re making multiple cuts on the same board as I have found myself doing it is a real pain!
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WHAB
If you set the table saw blade to 67.5 degrees, the other side will be 22.5 degrees. 67.5 + 22.5 = 90 degrees. This will allow you to make the cuts without any jigs.
Hello friend
I have a Magnetic GemRed Mini Digital Level Angle Finder for that very purpose. It is one of the first ‘new/additional’ tools I bought when I decided I wanted to get back into woodworking.
Thank you., @Tejas!
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WHAB
I never intended to compose and post this today - BUT… I have things to do and these long posts take FOREVER!
Another potential project is forthcoming that some ‘may find’ interesting - as I can fit it in, that is!
I’ve been pondering a woodworking workbench ever since I decided to get back to woodworking - what was I going to do about a workbench???
I’ve wrestled with the idea for a long time. I couldn’t settle on a type and what materials to make it out of.
Woodworking workbenchs can be quite expensive to make and even more expensive to buy.
Rob Cosman and Col. Luther Shealy have developed a workbench that ticks off all the boxes I have considered. It’s the bench everyone uses in his shop, he’s made a bunch of them.
Precision first, then cost of materials and method of fabrication and maintenance.
The Rob Cosman Woodworking Workbench is what I’ve decided on.
It’s dead flat.
I still have to source the materials: 1 inch HDF/MDF (maybe 3/4 inch), 5/8ths inch Baltic Birch. I also don’t own a Narrow Staple gun. Gonna have to buy one.
I’m going to change a few things to suit my needs better. Primarily I’ll need 20mm Dog Holes as that is what my Festool-ish Multi-function Table has, as well my Bench Dogs Fence, Guide Rail Dogs (Bench Dogs UK) are 20mm.
I haven’t decided on a vise yet.
But, I started disc #1 and I stopped it at 49 minutes in and now I can’t get my DVD/CD on my PC to work again, of course!
I’ve tried everything! I bought a new external DVD/CD player the other day.
I just got a message telling me it was delivered. It was delivered to the wrong residence! It was delivered to the main house.
I have a YUGE sign at the driveway entrance saying Delivery to Xxxxxxxx (my name) clearly spelled out in LARGE print with a YUGE arrow pointing in this direction and yet…
Gonna have to add flashing neon lights to the sign, it seems!
Besides Rob being a fantastic woodworker and teacher he started a program a few years ago to help wounded veterans. https://robcosman.com/
It’s called the Purple Heart Project.
If accepted to the program you spend an entire week in his shop (Grand Bay, New Brunswick, Canada) for hands on instruction. Wounded Warriors also get a lifetime membership to his online courses (5 1/2 hour videos a week) AND they go home with approximately $2000 in hand woodworking tools (note: all Hand Tools. Less chance of injury and it gets the brain concentrated on the work at hand ).
All of the above is free to the Wounded Warrior. All of it. The hands on training in Rob’s shop, travel to and from, the food and housing and the tools are all FREE to the veteran!
They describe the Purple Heart Project as Distractive Therapy. When you’re in the zone other Thought Process Machine operations are pushed away, even if temporarily.
His site has dozens of videos of Wounded Warriors that have gone through the program and they are just AMAZING!
https://robcosman.com/pages/php-what-is-php
You can find more about the Purple Heart Project including the application to the program above.
On top of all the above Rob does for our Wounded Warriors 10% of every saw he sells goes to the program.
I got a discount on my bundled purchase, the step-by-step instructional video (several hours, the first disc is 3+ hours long) and the Sketch-Up file.
I used those savings to do this…
Profits from the t-shirt sales also go directly to funding the Purple Heart Project.
IF anyone cares to donate to the PHP it can be done on his site (link above).
He makes some expensive but excellent tools. His methods are also very interesting, especially his Dove Tail method and even a complete NOOB can succeed with it in short order!
Man, this is a time suck! I have things I need to get done!
But, please…IF you’d like to help our Wounded Warriors that would be awesome and would make this post more worthwhile
There is also a Go Fund Me page if prefer to help in that way.
Thanks for taking the time to read this…I appreciate it!
P.S. Speaking of methods; I’ve started deleting pictures from my phone as soon as I transfer them to my PC. While it is more work, it does seem to be helping with the process overall
Regards,
WHAB
You might not know these guys but they have been my favorite toy store for decades
search on ‘Leevalley.com’
Check out their dogs and vices, if you see something you like and can’t get locally they ship out of Reno, Nevada.
Cheers
G
Could it be any more clear?!?! That sign is 2 foot wide!
Also,
We back in bidness!
Really looking forward to watching the rest of this series and starting on the build!
As soon as I can find the time and can acquire the materials and one more tool (narrow stapler). 
All of the patches on Rob’s shop apron are unit patches Wounded Warriors gave him. He has many shop aprons adorned thusly!
Quick story…
I applied to the program back in 2017 and was accepted. I have an email from Rob telling me I was accepted.
Then they changed the criteria.
After I was accepted they changed the eligibility to “Combat Wounded Veterans”.
I am a Service Connected Disabled Veteran. I am not Combat Wounded.
I really, really, really was looking forward to the trip and the hands-on instruction and the $2000 of quality hand tools I would have come back to the where I lived with them at that time and put them to work.
It was pretty depressing being unaccepted 
IF a miracle happens or my fortune changes I still want to attend the class…desperately.
After I made my bundle order Rob called me. I think I read that he does that but I didn’t consider it after my buy. It caught me off guard.
I took the time to quickly remind him of our previous exchanges in the hope he’d try and fit me in OR offer me a reduced tuition considering my circumstance. I said quickly because it was New Years eve or New Years day and he had other things to do.
As an aside; when they launched their ‘new’ website I scrubbed it for them. I scrubbed it for errors, spelling mistakes and misdirects or broken links. I spent a good deal of time scrubbing their new site. Every page, every word and every link.
I scrubbed their site for them AFTER I was unaccepted.
Even though that happened I still fully endorse the people and the program!
Please help IF you can and care to!
Okay, Back To Work (in my best Mike Patey’s voice)
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WHAB
Hello friend!
I am aware of Lee Valley. I have had my eye on a few things they offer.
They make quality pieces!
Their Winding Sticks are well priced and needed for hand tool cabinetry.
I just saw they have a new Veritas Side-Clamping Honing Guide. That looks very nice! Very well priced as well! I have a decent one, the old style, that I modified according to DIY instructions. Once that was done it is quite usable but theirs looks like it is better built by A LOT!
Once I get to hand planning I am likely to try to buy both of those - at least.
Their hand planes are also well priced as compared to others available.
I’ll need some Irons, too! Lots to consider in that category!
I have a few junky hand planes that I’ve made usable. Once I get some time on the working end of them I’ll consider upgrading.
Thank you ever so much for the information, my friend! It was quite helpful - if only for window shopping today!
I really didn’t know they produced a new Honing Guide.
Thanks, man! ,
WHAB
A while back I was looking into a bench myself (but plans fell through).
I loved the Varitas 24" twin screw bench vice, but I don’t think they are making it anymore…
It would take up the whole end of a bench 
Yeah, they have some nice stuff… they have branched out into power tools, handling Festool and Rikon now.
One thing that really sparked my interest is their use of PM-V11 alloy, it’s a powdered metal that is sintered and rolled into billets. This stuff has amazing edge retention and toughness. They use it in hand tools and plane blades, pricey but if you use the tool frequently, worth it.
Cheers
G
They have many excellent tools. They have some of the best purpose built bench dog accessories I’ve ever seen! Really nice!
I didn’t investigate it deeply but, they seem to still make the a twin screw vise.
While that is a great kit, and I really like the twin screw vise concept…the Sjoberg Adjustable Vise looks like a great one for the Rob Cosman workbench…it’s what he uses…simply for ease of installation alone.
Then there’s Moxon Vises. I really like the ‘idea’ of a vise that can accept a wide board or panel.
And, yeah, you can spend days researching Plane Irons - I have!
However, I’m actually leaning towards the In-Kleined Twin Turbo Vise. Not only is it an amazing vise in its design, it is absolutely amazing - it is a work of art!
The dude’s Thought Process Machine might be a scary place to be!
Wow. He’s brilliant!
IF you’re not aware of his dangerous brilliance - check out his Twisted Table.
That his Thought Process Machine conjured such up a mechanical design and worked it through the processes to completion is just F’ing AMAZING.
He’s doing GREAT work!
I won’t really know what type of vise I’m going to need until I see what the projects I intend to pass through one.
I really like the idea of a Leg Vise. I really like a Tail Vise. But, I won’t really know until the time comes.
I really, really like Andrew Klein’s Twin Turbo Vise partially because it comes from his over-revved Thought Process Machine!
Dude is pure genius and it has to be recognized as such!
Great discussion, @Gpaw ! Thank you for it!
P.S. The Pain Clinic just called me to tell me they had cancelled appointment creating an opening for me tomorrow.
P.S.S I tried to renew my MMJ authorization today only to realize they’re not open today!
You , bro!
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WHAB
This is a much better Twisted Table video! It show the processes he devised to create it!
It’s stunning work!
https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewKleinWW/videos
Still thinking, still exercising his Thought Process Machine!
He’s partnered up with a few companies on some amazing products!
Andrew designed this in partnership with Mag Switch…brilliant!
Mag Switch hired him around the time his Thought Process Machine was over-revving on that one!
He’s designed a few other things in partnership with Mag Switch.
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WHAB
Wow! thanks, that was a fun trip down the rabbit hole!
That french curve layout trick and transferring to the jig and then the slats…
That is really old-school!! That’s actually a master draftsman’s trick.
The only person I ever met that could pull that off on their own was my ol’ man (draftsman/ woodworker/mech eng).
Another interesting skill he’s using is steam bending…
another thing my ol’ man messed around with. 
(Windsor chairs)…
I hope my retirement is half as productive as his 
Cheers
G
Still riding that Andrew Klein Thought Process Machine Storm!
His Thought Process Machine conjured this one up…
He designed and fabricated every part and/or piece on it. He made Bench Dogs specifically for his workbench…they’re magnetic. Brilliant!
He made one for Adam Savage…
Andrew designed and built every part of his amazing woodworking workbench!
Matthew Cremona supplied the #MassiveMatt Slabs milled on his Massive Bandsaw Sawmill that he built from scratch for it!
IF you’re not familiar with Matt Cremona you’re missing out.
He logged this tree. He milled this tree. He hand crafted every part and piece on it from this tree. Then he returned that tree to the stump from whence it came for a photo-shoot!
Amazing work all around!
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WHAB
Yeah, it really is something!
Oh…ummm…when can I meet this fellow! You’ve been holding genius to yourself!!!
Sounds awesome!
I really like and admire people that can work with their hands in any genre, wood, metal…whatever! It takes a disciplined and exceptional mind.
Your Pops sounds 
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