Homemade woodworking machines
System for vacuuming dust from the drum sander
One of the biggest disadvantages of this woodworking hobby is that when we sand wood, a huge amount of sawdust is generated, which ends...
Sanding drum for drill press
I have been wanting to make a drill press drum sander for some time. We all know that sanding by hand is a hassle....
Homemade drill powered disc sander
After trying to make a disc sander by connecting the sanding disc shaft directly to the drill chuck, and seeing that it wasn't a...
Homemade shaft with bearings for DIY machines
I decided to make a shaft with bearings after my first trials trying to make a homemade disc sander with the drill. The thing...
How I thickness boards wider than my homemade thickness planer
Many of you who have seen how I made my homemade thickness planer with an electric wood planer ask me how to plane wood...
A fence to make straight cuts with the jigsaw table
When I installed the support with bearings to keep the jigsaw blade vertical on my homemade jigsaw table, I didn't worry about not having...
Make a DIY disc sander with a horizontal drill stand
If you follow my woodworking and diy blog and my YouTube channel you will have already seen my drill lathe in disc sander mode....
Curved cuts with the diy jigsaw table
Many of you ask me about the possibility of making curved cuts with the diy table jigsaw, the one I made by attaching the...
Round stretcher table as support structure for the jigsaw table
When I made the table jigsaw I was only concerned about having a simple system that would allow me to easily install and uninstall...
Jointing boards with a router table
Surely, looking for how to joint wood, you have already watch in a woodworking blog or in a YouTube video that it is possible...
Improving the router table with a split fence
When I made the double side fence for the router table and the table saw (you can see it here) I had not too...
How to adjust my DIY thickness planer
Adjusting this homemade thickness planer for thicknessing wood may not be as simple as setting a normal carpenter's thicknesser that you can buy at...
Problems with jigsaw blade alignment and miter sled cuts
Everything was working so well in this DIY jigsaw table that I decided to make a miter sled for 45Āŗ cuts to make miter...
Some considerations on the table jigsaw
Seeing how simple it seems to be making a jigsaw table and its sled for accurate and square cuts, I thought I had to...
Crosscut sled for precise cuts on the table jigsaw
Seeing how well the jigsaw cuts with the guide that keeps the blade vertical, now all I needed was a crosscut sled to make...
Guide with bearings to keep the blade vertical in the table jigsaw
When cutting with the jigsaw by hand using it upright, in it's usual position, we usually find ourselves with the unpleasant "surprise" (after some...
How to mount a jigsaw upside down under a table
The idea of mounting a jigsaw as a table saw had never really appealed to me. I thought that it would not be easy...
Cheap drill powered wood lathe kit
The truth is, I never had much interest in getting a lathe for turning wood pieces. I admit that I find it fascinating to...
DIY combination machine removable in sections
We continue with the multifunction homemade table built by FĆ©lix GĆ³mez MartĆn. Previously, we saw how he made the aluminum guides, and now we...
Aluminum miter slots for DIY combination machine
FĆ©lix GĆ³mez MartĆn sent me photos of his multifunction cutting table from Seville. Depending on his carpentry project needs, he installs a handheld circular...
Makeshift micro adjuster for table saw fence
Adjusting my homemade fence with quite a bit of precision is not very difficult, as it slides easily and parallel to the blade of...
Dust collector system for my DIY combination machine
If you use your DIY machines occasionally in the workshop, you might often not even consider connecting them to a workshop vacuum. One can...
DIY table saw lift mechanism
With this, I've now built three homemade table saws, and I don't think this one will be the final version. But since it will...
Zero clearance insert for homemade table saw
When making a homemade table saw with a circular saw, one of the problems we will encounter is what to do with the slot...
DIY router table with jack as router lift system
Toine, from the Netherlands, sent me some photos of his router table. He used the typical system of mounting a plunge router upside down...