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I am working on building an outfeed table for my table saw. This provides support for long peices of stock that I am ripping and crosscutting on my saw so they don’t drop on the floor and create an unsafe working environment. This outfeed table will extend back an additional 3 feet from the saw making for a nice long area for the stock to rest. Longer stock will extend out past this but my workbench and some shop roller stands should keep it in control. I will take photos of the step by step process I followed to construct this and show you the fininshed product when comeplete.

Nik and I have been digging in the dirt in our never ending quest to do away with grass and replace it with something that we can eat or is pretty to look at. Last month we planted radishes, mustard greens, red leaf lettuce and kale. The mustard greens and the lettuce are doing fine although we needed to plant more lettuce. The kale seems to be a delicious snack for something. The one saving grace is the radishes, they produced tons. Last week we planted a second round of radishes, carrots, brocolli, green onions, more kale, spinach and cucumbers. We have hot and bell peppers seedlings in the sun room and starter tomatoes as well that are going in next week. I’ll try and post some pics.

I have been really thinking a lot about woodworking again and with the Spring in full effect and the arrival of a Woodcraft store in Chattanooga I am pumped to really start building some things. I started a month ago building a workbench which I will upload a gallery of the project as it progressed up until the finished product.

My next project is a row of cabinets and drawers to store all of my woodworking equipment. I have been designing the project in Google Sketchup a very easy to use free 3D modeling program developed by Google. If you are interested in 3D modeling this product is excellent. When the design is complete and I will capture a photo of it and publish it here.

Back to making some sawdust.