Many people, like us, use our shop space for more than woodworking. So, tools need to do double duty. This easily made shop tool allows you to do several woodworking tasks at a standard work table.
Michael Pekovich is a prolific woodworking writer and instructor. He is a part of the Fine Woodworking magazine publishing team and is regularly featured in that publication.
You can check them out at www.finewoodworking.com. If you are interested in taking your craft to the next level while being exposed to world-class instructors and having a wide range of topics and skill levels, this is one of the “gotta-haves!”.
The other publication is Woodsmith®. You can check them out at www.woodsmith.com.
Mr. Pekovich created a clamping fixture like a mini woodworker’s bench. Once this simple device is clamped to a work table, wood stock can be clamped in a variety of ways and orientations, allowing the wood to be planed, sawn, and shaped.
Originally designed to make demonstrations on the road more convenient, it’s now found an ongoing place in Pekovich’s shop.
DirtFarmerJay recently built a pair of these great tools - one for typical thickness stock and the other for more robust pieces. DFJ will take you through the basic process, and show you just how handy these can be - at a very reasonable price and moderate time investment - in your shop.
To download the original article with plans and techniques to use the workstation, visit:
Mucha gente, como nosotros, usa el espacio de nuestra tienda para algo más que trabajar la madera. Por lo tanto, las herramientas deben cumplir una doble función. Esta herramienta de taller de fácil fabricación le permite realizar varias tareas de carpintería en una mesa de trabajo estándar.
Michael Pekovich es un prolífico escritor e instructor de carpintería. Él es parte del equipo editorial de la revista Fine Woodworking y aparece regularmente en esa publicación.
Puede consultarlos en www.finewoodworking.com. Si está interesado en llevar su oficio al siguiente nivel mientras está expuesto a instructores de clase mundial y tiene una amplia gama de temas y niveles de habilidad, ¡este es uno de los "imprescindibles!".
La otra publicación es Woodsmith®. Puede consultarlos en www.woodsmith.com.
El Sr. Pekovich creó un accesorio de sujeción como un banco de carpintero en miniatura. Una vez que este dispositivo simple se sujeta a una mesa de trabajo, el material de madera se puede sujetar en una variedad de formas y orientaciones, lo que permite cepillar, aserrar y moldear la madera.
Originalmente diseñado para hacer que las demostraciones en la carretera sean más convenientes, ahora se encuentra en un lugar continuo en la tienda de Pekovich.
DirtFarmerJay construyó recientemente un par de estas excelentes herramientas, una para material de espesor típico y la otra para piezas más robustas. DFJ lo guiará a través del proceso básico y le mostrará cuán útiles pueden ser, a un precio muy razonable y una inversión de tiempo moderada, en su tienda.
Para descargar el artículo original con planes y técnicas para usar la estación de trabajo, visite:
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Recently, I saw an article in Fine Woodworking about an all-in-one workstation that you can take on a trip.
It's really great and it works very well.
One of my heroes of the carpentry, Michael Pekovic, who was part of the staff of Fine Woodworking,
He recently published an article titled, A Workstation All in One for Milan Colas.
Now, Michael is not only part of the executive staff of that publication, but he's also a very busy carpentry educator.
So I travel a lot, teaching carpentry skills to a wide range of people in the United States.
Well, I'll tell you what, you don't want to be carrying heavy work benches and that kind of thing.
So, out of necessity, Michael created this, what he calls a one-stop shop for colas in Milan.
And what he discovered is that when building this accessory and then attaching it to the edge of a work surface,
I could pass wood here, I could work on top, or I could flip this sideways and do the same.
Put it on a work surface and put things forward and you can work it right here.
First, he kept the work safe using the existing work surfaces.
So you don't have to have a dedicated workbench or a workbench to work the wood to do this.
And secondly, it elevated the work a little bit, which makes it much more practical where it's closer,
It's easier to see and not so hard for the back.
Well, I'm not going to take it exactly step by step because I'm going to direct it to this resource that you can actually get as a reprint.
And if you look at the description below, he gave you links to where to get this.
This is from the May-June 2020 edition, so it's been a while since it came out, but go ahead, it works really well.
And it's done, as you can see here, simply using a construction of grooves and muescas.
Now, if you're confused about what those three different techniques are for working wood,
See the link above or the description below.
where we have another short video that tells what is the difference between a slot, a reduction and a slot and you can keep that clear in your mind and how to build them.
When you download this article, it will go in two different directions here.
One is where you simply show how to build this stand, some of the ways in which it is used,
But then I'll also show you his simple construction method and how to arm it.
Then, after that, you'll see some ways that Michael uses them.
So what you do is you cut colas de milano, eliminate the waste, make colas de milano medio ciegas, and assert los pasadores.
So I'll show you some carpentry methodology that you can make use of this.
And then this is very, very useful.
So, instead of walking step by step, the construction that you can get from here,
I'll just show you some of the features of this and some of my thoughts on it, as we progress in this.
First of all, you can see that this is armed with a simple reduction construction.
Now, I could just put things together, but rabbits are wonderful at aligning the pieces and helping to square them.
Then, the outer pieces that surround all this come together with the rebar.
In the center, where you have a piece on either side, they're placed in holes, they're captured.
And this gives you a pocket along the side where you can hold a work surface on both sides,
Which gives him the stability he needs when he's sawing, hammering, brushing and that kind of thing.
So that's number one.
Number two, these clampers on the top.
It can be really, completely, con or economic.
I'm stuck in the middle.
If you buy them cheap from a place like Harbor Freight, they can be used, they'll work, but they're not the best quality.
And then, at the other extreme, you can go to a really premium brand that's been in the industry for years in industrial environments like highlight,
They'll work wonderfully and even have some that are self-adjusting that do.
All you have to do is adjust this once and then it will adjust to the thickness of the material that is under the head of the clamp.
These are from a company called Powertech.
I'll leave you the link in the description below.
So they're average price, I bought a whole bag of them, for this kind of configurations.
Now, when we were watching this, Rob, who is behind the camera right now,
Immediately, he said, "Go, there's something I don't like".
This is like a pressure area here, and it can trap you.
Punto comillas. What is it?
That's right.
If you're opening them all to keep them, you must be careful or grab the side here to get your fingers out of the way.
But in general terms, you'll probably be in a three-quarter position, with your fingers out of the way.
You can adjust these once and in fact I put an extra scarf and a butterfly scarf here
So I could adjust them by hand without having to go get my keys and put this where I want.
So these are at medium depths.
On the back, you can see where I use some standard tensors where you can do that and slide them into the position you want.
And then press them wherever you want in the position to grab the wood you want.
Now, there's something else you can see in the background, and at Rob's point, when I opened them completely, I broke my fingers a little bit.
So be careful.
If you look at the bottom right here, there's a groove that extends from side to side.
Suppose you're working with a really scarce stock.
So imagine this MDF as a piece of, say, American notch that I want to make some Milan cola.
I'm making a little box or something.
Well, if I put that on, I can't make it go down enough, even if I do.
But if I put a spacer under this, you'll see it in the plans, with a listener, I can push it in,
I'm gonna lift the base of this holding area, and now when I put this under the braces, it's gonna hold and it's okay.
That increases the usefulness for the material being diluted.
If I needed thicker material, what I did was build a second edition of this because I have very thick material
I'm going to work in the near future and build a workbench area.
Let me get that for you.
So, while I was making one of these, they're so easy to make, I went ahead and built a second one that has thicker side tacos.
So, you'll notice that these are about three quarters, this is about a quarter or one and three eights here.
That allows me to work with thicker material.
As you can see here, I'm using a standard two,
But let's say I was using wood of eight quarters or something like that that I was going to make some milano cola de pata de gallo or something like that.
So this allows me to hold this and you can see that this can be configured in different orientations.
Here's where he configured it vertically.
There's a pocket of stuffing under here for a normal workbench, it doesn't work in this kind of cabinet,
But I'd hold this and now you have a safe area to work the end of the board here, and then this is where we put it upside down.
Again, press the pocket here and there in a flip, on a workbench or table.
And now you can hold this plane here to cut different things, and you can align the pieces together, because there's a square corner.
If you're making cola de milano or you need to mark or write two different pieces of wood together, this corner makes it easy.
A lot of hard work, Michael did a great job on this.
Be sure to download the article at the end or consult Fine Woodworking.
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