Been busy in my shop!

Fully adjustable box joint jig, plans were from a Shop Notes magazine:

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This jig works extremely well. It uses two mending plates to create fingers that are used as the key. This means you can make any size box joint you want. I did not modify the plans at all, but I did use a piece of aluminum for the micro adjustment mounting plate. I bought a piece of 16 inch square aluminum scrap at the local scrapyard for 9 bucks. I used most of it on the 12 inch sander below. A package of mending plates at the local hardware store cost less than 5 dollars. The rest is just wood and parts I had lying around. So I maybe have all of $10 in this jig.

Here is the disc sander for the lathe:

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Like I said above, the aluminium disc cost 9$ at the scrap yard. I used a 3 inch faceplate to mount the disc to the lathe. The aluminum is 5052 so it was easy to true up the edge with a scraper. I use the lathe, but not all that often. What I really like about this is that I can control the speed of the disc. The lathe is a 1946 Delta with the jack shaft so I have 16 speeds available. At the slowest speed it does not burn edges.

And last, but not least, the wall cabinets:

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There are two cabinets, the nearer once has a door on hinges. The large one to the right has two doors that run on an aluminum track. The plan for that cabinet was in Shop Notes also. It almost doubles the use of the wall space. Before, that wall had two shelves on it. I kept my power hand tools on the shelves. Now they are in the cubbyholes you can just barely see in the lower left of the pic.

I am so freakn' organized these days I can hardly stand it! Out of the things I have been doing to improve my shop lately that cabinet is the hands down winner. Makes it easier to put things away, find things and when I blow the dust around it makes it a lot easier.