Junction Woodworks

Junction Woodworks Woodworker, gamer, rock collector extraordinaire

04/27/2026

not everyone makes small boxes but if you do, or might, this is a great tip. you can also loop them together to make them longer. it's a great way to keep stuff together while making sure everything is nice and square.

04/25/2026

Crispy

04/24/2026

it wasn't fun doing all the trial and error it took to get the cnc back up and running, and breaking my 4 year old awesome dust boot off was not part of the plan. buying a new one was 100$ plus tax and shipping. printing this was 20$ in plastic. it's sweet.

04/21/2026

I've made 5 iterations of this boot (and two IRL) and I can safely say I designed a working dust boot! I'm excited to try making some improvements as i go but now I have the ability to make new ones if I ever break one again! success!

04/20/2026

Designing my own dust boot for my cnc rather than paying for a new dust boot. The prototyping process is brutal but eventually I'll get the right iteration and then I'll own the file outright and can make as many dust boots as I want!

04/19/2026

3d printing a new dust fitting rather than buying a new one for 100$

04/19/2026

Resawing is a game-changer for workshop efficiency because it allows you to bring a board close to its final thickness without turning half the wood into sawdust. When you use a planer to reduce a thick board down to a thin one, you are essentially grinding away expensive material and spending significant time emptying dust collectors and making repetitive passes. By resawing on a bandsaw first, you can slice a single heavy board into two or even three thinner pieces with a single cut. This leaves only a fraction of an inch to be cleaned up by the planer, drastically reducing the machine time and physical labor required to reach your target dimensions.

​From a financial perspective, resawing transforms how you purchase lumber by maximizing the yield of every board foot. Buying specialty thin stock (like 1/4-inch or 1/2-inch boards) often comes with a premium price tag at lumber yards due to the extra processing involved. By purchasing thicker, more economical "8/4" or "10/4" stock and resawing it yourself, you can effectively double your usable surface area for the same initial investment. Additionally, resawing allows for advanced techniques like bookmatching, where a single beautiful board is split to create mirrored grain patterns, giving your projects a high-end, custom look that would be impossible to achieve with pre-milled, off-the-shelf lumber.

04/18/2026

Skip planing is a technique used to safely flatten a board that is too warped, twisted, or bowed to be fed normally through a thickness planer. Since a benchtop planer has pressure rollers that temporarily squash a board flat against the bed, a distorted board will often spring back to its original warped shape once it exits the machine. To prevent this, skip planing involves setting the cutter head to a height where it only "skips" across the high spots of the board’s surface, removing a tiny amount of material without engaging the rollers with enough force to flatten the internal tension. By taking these extremely shallow passes and flipping the board frequently, you gradually create a flat reference face without the board snapping back into a curve.

​While skip planing is a useful workaround when you don't have a jointer, it requires patience and a light touch. If the board has a significant "cup" or "rock," it is often helpful to secure it to a flat plywood sled using hot glue or shims to prevent it from rocking as it passes under the cutter head. This ensures the knives are cutting a plane parallel to the sled rather than following the contour of the warp. Once one side is perfectly flat and consistent, you can remove the sled and use that flat face against the planer bed to parallel-cut the opposite side, resulting in a board that is both flat and uniform in thickness.

04/17/2026

Brief shop update

Big difference, maybe.
04/13/2026

Big difference, maybe.

04/12/2026

My goal is one new garden bed per weekend until mothers day then we are gonna fill em with veg and berry bushes.

04/10/2026

Just keep swimming.

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