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I guess I would say it doesn't seem that "rough" to me. It's not a slick surface, but obviously not a baby butt smooth surface either. It's seems to be just like your average osb 4x8 sheet finish. If...

Yeah, for me, it a shop, I don't plan to put anything on top of the dri-core panels. I don't care that it is just a chip board look. If you want a cleaner look on top of it, that's really cool. I'm...

Hoang,

I am actually in the process of creating my new shop space. I just moved this summer into a 1935 era home. I have about a 525 sq ft room in the basement for my workshop. I decided to go...

First off, thanks for all the great suggestions, ideas, and opinions everyone. I really appreciate it.

As far as my type of work - I am all over the place. At my previous house, I ran the gamut...

My two bigger tools are on mobile bases. Table saw and jointer. The planer is light enough for me to move it out when I needed it. I figured the slightly bigger space gave me enough room to no have...

Depends. If it's a big piece, I will do it outside. The small stuff, I usually just do that in another part of the basement. I assume/plan to do that same at this house. If it is the only thing I am...

I used AutoCad. (I am an engineer by trade.) I am working on the "3D" Sketchup version as well.

Greetings. I just moved into a "new to me" house a few weeks ago and I would really like to get work on my new basement shop space. I have a couple of options here that I have laid out. There are...

I never used the OEM blades, went straight to TimberWolf. I think I'm pretty close to a good setup, it's the last 5% that always takes the most time and skill.
Thanks for the nice comments.

You know what I would really love, is to have someone come to my house, and just go through all my tools to show me how to properly set up and maintain them. I have a bandsaw, but I need to cut...

Rockler. I bought the date attachment too.

John - Spot on with the advice on resawing. I will keep that technique in my arsenal for future projects. Next on my list is to build a matching bedside...

Well, there may be a couple of you who remember when I cut the plywood panels out of this project.

Cherry wood, 3 coats of amber shellac. Not my design, but I did make some very minor tweaks to...

Well, I didn't get as much done as hoped this past weekend, but I did get the "oops" panel cut down to size, and the mortises done in the legs. Now is a matter a dry fitting a few more times to tweak...

Well, I decided to cut out the rails, make new panels, and new rails.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u317/ElGuapoLego/Tall%20Dresser/P1020496.jpg

I thought I'd share the process of the fix....

Yes the panels will be floating. But so were the plywood panels originally. The drawer slides are just screwed onto the panel. All I plan on doing is elogating the screw hole at the back of the...

I am looking at a variation of this option as my favorite so far. I am thinking of just removing the top rail. Then route the last 3/8" of an inch groove all the way through to the top of the leg....

If it were me, I would have used much longer tenons than what I do have...but since it was not my shop and I was not settin up the tools, I had to "go with the flow". If I ever get my shop cleaned...

Sorry for the confusion John. I didn't like the side of the plywood that was facing out. The other side was much better, but had some funky inclusions that made me not want to use it. In the end,...

I thought about something like this too. I would just need to figure out a way for the drawer slides to attach to the panels. They were screwed into the 3/4" ply before. I could always thicken up...

I like it Kieth. I was stumbling on how to route the bottom rail...Rails of course. I will take a closer look at this possibility tonight.

Believe me Kieth, it wasn't easy to start cutting. I had...

Well, today I did it. I cut the plywood side panels out of the tall dresser I am building for my daughter.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u317/ElGuapoLego/Tall%20Dresser/P1020476.jpg

Long...

Actually John the base uses all mortise and tenons. Stretchers into legs, legs into feet. Then the top has a "mortise" on the underside that sits on top of the legs (the tenon). The shelf slats...

A couple of weeks ago, a friend (Evan) and I drove down to American Sycamore Retreat for a weeklong "class". We had a one-on-one with Mike Van Pelt building a workbench. He started his school in...

A couple of weeks ago, a friend (Evan) and I drove down to American Sycamore Retreat for a weeklong "class" to build a workbench.

After a tiring week of lifting thick and heavy stock, here is my...

Me too, me too.

Thanks