Creative Woodworks & crafts 2005-03, страница 60

DiRK AND KAREN'S

SCROLL SA W SHOP

by Dirk and Karen Boeiman

bench) has served as a real workhorse for several years. Because we have a walk-out basement, it's just a few steps from our shop to the back door. This planer is quite easy to pick up and move around, so it really works great tor us to just take it and the noise and sawdust right outside. Also, in the photo above, note the Shop Vac air cleaner on the shelf next to the planer. We use the air cleaner in the shop all of the time. Il is easy to set on a bench next to ihe scroll saws whenever we're sawing, and we also move it around to various locations wherever we are sanding or shaping, etc. We also set it on the floor while we're sweeping up the shop, and kicking up dust!

We do most of our woodworking in a room in our basement that measures just 17' x 21'. There's so much "stuff' in it thai we always have to move something whenever we want to work on anything in the shop, especially when both of us are trying to work in il at the same time!

cut all the big boards into manageable sizes that we can handle in our litile scroll saw shop. Someday (if and when our ship comes in) we hope to purchase a larger table saw that we can set up to handle large sheets of plywood.

way. (I had to shoot it in two photos, because the room isn't large enough for rue to gel back as far as needed to shoot it in one.) In this lillle room, there arc several scroll saws, including the following: two 20" RBI Hawks, a 20" DcWalt. a 30" Excalibur, an i 8" Hegner Multimax, a 21" PS Wood Machine, a 24" Kit Saw from The Tool Company, and a 16" Delta and 16" Ryobi. This is why we call it our scroll saw shop, though it holds a lot more than just scroll saws. In this small room, we also have a Craftsman 24" jointer/planer, a 6" belt sander with a 9" disc sander. two drill presses, a 14" Jet band saw, a 12" Craftsman band saw, a Delta bench grinder, an RBI router (able, a Ryobi oscillating spindle sander, a Performax 16/32 drum sander, a Delta 12" planer, a Hegner MK-4 table saw, and many hand tools, power tools and bench top tools. We have almost everything we need... except space!

Upstairs, in the garage, we have an older 10" Craftsman table saw, and a 10" Craftsman radial arm saw. That's where we

The photo here shows the Performax Drum Sander. We do quite a bit of thickness sanding with it, especially on shorter lengths of boards that are too difficult to run through the planer. I cannot imagine how we would get along without this machine. There are very few projects that we make that do not involve the use of it in some way. For example, there are many times we have started scroll sawing on a project from 3/4" (or even thicker) oak or cherry and found it to be very hard and loo slow-going. In these cases, we run it through the Performax and take

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