Soapbox Rants and Raves

We picked a custom snowboard at a garage sale this spring for Nicholas. The people owned a custom printing shop and did the artwork on the board.  My dad and I made a cool snowboard holder so we could use the snowboard as “art” in his room. Hopefully, we will be able to go back out west and go skiing in the next year or so… before the boys forget how to snowboard!

The holder was made of 1/2 oak that we had left over from making the legs on my table saw extension. It turned out pretty cool. Every thing is cut at an angle… the laser on the chop saw came in pretty handy!

The Powermatic tool company started adding solid (laminated) extension tables to their table saws a couple of years ago. I thought they looked so cool, that I had to have one!  My dad and I planed down a bunch of oak boards and glued up two 14x48x2″ slabs of oak. Fortunately, he has a 20″ spiral head planer to smooth it all out. We biscutted and glued the two pieces together and cut them to size. Having a 8″ long bed jointer sure was nice… It did not even notice that big piece of oak, neither did the table saw for that matter!  Getting that huge piece of oak to line up with the cast iron wings was easier than I thought. We then made some cool adjustable legs for the unsupported end of the table.  Overall, I think it came out really cool. (and looks just as good as the Powermatic version, and mine was free! Thanks Dad!)