VPI

Well, it is an Irish name.

I am YouTube minimally-famous.

Threw together a little quartersawn tea box today with box joints and dado for the bottom all done with the Shaper.

Templates is my primary plan, as my small CNC is designed to only accepts boards slightly shorter than anything anyone would ever want to template, ever. If i had a Naaman level CNC i would probably just hook it to AI and let the internet spit out templates for me all day. AI seems to be a better designer than me.

I think it largely has benefits where it can work on large finished projects that cannot fit on a CNC (6x6 cedar post, hardwood floors, completed workbenches that were really to thick to fit under rhe gantry of most/any small CNC machines anyway) and it can do the joinery that the majority of small CNC machines could never manage due to the lack of vertical tables.

I would think it would make more sense for a pro in the field like yourself than it does to someone like me. I will probably use it to put the logo on the bench vice and then do some carvings on the 6x6 cedar posts for my new mailbox and never use it again. I guess I need to try dovetails to see if it is better at those than the leigh.

Thanks guys. Played some video games tonight in the shop to come up with a small 2x2 brand to go on the boring maple chop.

Got the last set of maple vice jaws from In-Kleind and the mounting points and through holes are almost a full 1/4” off center so that required dramatic work to salvage and keep the length. Now that I have the maple vice jaws on, I think i am going to build more Jatoba jaws as the Maple bores me.

Do any of you guys have the Pantorouter thing? Thinking about trying this out for joinery.

Nice contrast between the Jatoba from Andy Klein and my own, so I do not have to make Maple bench dogs.

Ahhh, that nerd box on my CNC.

Are we talking power or some other nerd thing.

Did not even realize a three phase spindle was a thing. Maybe I should look for one of those maker spaces so I can throw my shitty CNC away and put something worthwhile there.

All out of sunlight so no glamour shots, but I declare…Jatoba vices are sexy vices. That is all. (Sapele racing stripe for bonus points)

I guess I am going to give up on the $280 worth of CNC cut maple jaws from Andrew Klein, as he seems to be ignoring e-mails entirely now, and make my own. Paid for them a month ago and nothing yet as he forgot to send them with the vices.

Not simple. Those rabbeted corners had me thinking you had mitres that I could not even see there for a second. Oak legs or some sort of accent?

I am fancy as fuck. Just watch that Wenge burn.

Who doesn’t love the smell of burning exotics in the morning?

Yeah, if I fell off a chair I would make up a story also.

Make sure you make a secondary bevel at exactly 27.76892 for ultimate slicing your fingers open while not paying attention.

Where is your Tormek? Also, Rob’s big thing is 30 seconds to sharp so if it takes you a week you must be watching the wrong videos.

Well. The Oneida dust hose came loose from the jointer and whipped through the shop and flipped the bench. I knew that thing was a nuisance.

Put the final coat on the top and the first in the gap stop.

Happy Birthday

While I was tempted to leave the top unfinished as I liked the look, I decided that this will be primarily a poorly devised assembly table and not really a hand tool bench so protection for finishes and glue took precedent. Therefore, I rubbed the bright yellow snot all over the top also because from what I have read it will give better protection than the Danish Oil.