Beveled Edges - A New Instructable in the Woodworking Elements Series

This time I explained how to use the scrap from cutting a beveled edge of a board to check the accuracy of the angle.  I use compounding error by  stacking up segments of the scrap to exaggerate the angular error to make it easier to see how much to correct and to make it clear when your angle is close enough to what you want!

Build-a-bench

More instructables and videos are in the works, but for the last few weeks I'm spending my free moments building a corner bench for the dining room.  Here are some sneak peeks which I hope to explain in more detail later.  I love this photo of the bench in progress because it illustrates the challenge of doing woodwork in a limited space:

This is the reason (almost) everything in my shop is on wheels.
Here's a preview of some tricks I want to share soon:

 The bench has lids with piano hinges that needed to be trimmed with beveled edges:

I'm match-drilling and pinning the seats to the base so I can dress it all up in the installed condition in the garage, then tear it down and reassemble in the dining room later.

Chip's wood shop selfie- actually I'm using the phone to sight holes from underneath that I can only reach with one arm:

As I say, more to come, but I wanted to let interested people know that Chip's wood shop is busy getting lots more ready to share!

CNC steps aside for some good ol' sawdust making.

I'm currently working on a corner bench for our dining room. There's a lot of plywood to cut, so I temporarily removed the cnc stuff so I could use my radial arm saw. I made this video to show it still works as a saw and comes in handy when I need to crosscut a bunch of boards between 12 and 17 inches wide.

Shopsmith Hack #1: Tapping Straight Holes

Today I posted the first of a series of videos on getting more out of your Shopsmith:




I love my early 80's vintage Mark V Shopsmith. I bought it on Craig's List years ago, and it has made woodworking in my small space possible ever since.  This is a trick I use to make sure I'm tapping straight into holes.  This time, I'm not actually working with wood, but threaded holes are elements of all sorts of custom tools and fixtures, which I use for woodwork.
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December 12 update: I posted these instructions to instructables.com.