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•Soldering iron with round, flat head: heating and removing cut patterns. I like to use 3M No. 77 spray glue—very sticky, patterns stay put. The soldering iron heats up the pattern and it comes off easily. It doesn't heat up the room and warp the wood like a heat gun can. The artist's paint spatula is handy for starting the removal so you don't burn your fingers (see Fig. 5). I prefer this method instead of using mineral spirits or turpentine because of a sensitivity to chemicals I've developed from using so many over the years.

•Graduated circle templates: I can't live without these! That was an article al I by itself. Steps on how to make them and some of the ways to use them can be found in the Apri I 2004 issue of Creative Woodworks.

•Air Mate filter and mask: if you don't use some sort of respirator or filter mask now, PLEASE start doing so; a dust collector or box filter IS NOT enough!

Changes to my shop since your last visit

Laying out your shop is a personal thing: it's an extension of you. Take time to observe how you work, what things you use, where you use them and why. Then you'll get a feel of where things should be for you and your shop will become a living, breathing thing instead of a room full of tools. It's a process that never ends. You change in some ways every day; so will your shop. Mine sure has since your last visit! I'm in the middle of observing where I want to move some tilings now.

The only change on the outside is the addition for the vacuum. The temporary 55-gallon drum it was in before worked well until 1 could get around to building this Little house off the side of the shop (see Fig. 6).

When you open the door to the shop, you see the first change to the inside. I moved the fold-out table that had been attached to the wall next to my saw and attached it to the inside of the door instead. I hung the hose for my Apollo HVLP sprayer above it and now use the table for spraying the final finish on projects. Just open the door, raise the table, spray outside the shop, and move on (see Fig. 7).

The tabic space I lost next to the saw was replaced with a combined mobile table, seat, planer and jointer base, and storage unit made from items that were going to be trashed (sec Fig. 8). The bucket stores my Apollo HVLP spray gun and other odds and ends (nice for stuff you don't want, getting dusty in the shop). The bucket itself is a bit different, too. The lid screws on like the lid of a jar and has a locking tab that has to be held in to unscrew the lid. My local water utility gets the chlorine tablets with which they treat water in them and trash them when they're empty. As a result of my last shop article, I met a fellow scroller who works for the water utility and she saves the buckets for me when I want them.

When I take the wood table/seat off, it becomes a base for my planer or jointer. The boards to which each are bolted arc cut to fit over the bucket lid (see Fig. 9). I use a rope hoist (one of the odds and ends stored in the bucket) attached to a hook in a ceiling rafter to lift them. It only takes one hand to hold the planer or jointer in the air while I use the other to slide the bucket base under (see Fig. 10). Lower it onto the bucket base, hook up the vacuum hose, and I'm ready to go (see Fig. 11). When that's done, I set the planer or jointer back on the lloor

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Fig. 5. Removing a pattern

Fig. 6. New combined mobile table, seat, planer and jointer base, and storage unit.

Fig. 6. House for vacuum.

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