Blog about manufacturing, tools, and machines

It is really freezing outside and it is not worth it to heat the workshop every day so I concentrated on other work this week. But I managed to do one board-related issue – rough gluing up of four two-colored boards.

Like I wrote last week, pure jatoba boards were getting on my nerves a bit so I decided to add some color. Literally – I am making boards with two colors.

I did make some small improvements to my drum sander.

Flattening the glued-up boards is unfortunately still a huge pain in the ass and decisively the most time-consuming step in the manufacturing process. And so far I came up with only one small improvement for the jig to span the boards when flattening the surface with a router.

Today, I almost did not write an article again because I was transferring my OS to a bigger hard drive and it did not go exactly smoothly. However, I succeeded after all and I have a fully functional PC again. So today I will write shortly about gluing the boards.

I did not publish anything last week because I totally and completely forgot about it. I continue making kitchen boards and am currently gluing up the third batch. Together with that, I am also continuing to improve my equipment. So today I would like to mention three improvements that I made "by the way".

Today just a little fun fact about the material I currently use to make kitchen boards.

I did manage to perform the announced test, so today I will write shortly about how it went.

Last time I finished with flat curved prefabricates with drilled out ends. With these I moved to the belt grinder with 40 grit belt.