J. Phil Thien's Projects

I found this website by searching for cyclone building plans, It's a very interesting site. My name is Buck, I fell in love with woodworking in 7th grade and have been at it for over 40 years. After my stint in the service I went to work in a friends machine shop and became a tool-maker. Now being a tool make and a woodworker causes a couple of problems. At work we routinely worked with tolerances as low as .00005 of an inch, that's 50 millionth's of an inch so I had become a perfectionist. There's not a chance that you do that with wood, so I have a huge scrap bin of pcs I consider out of tolerance from what i wanted when more than likely they would've been just fine. I have a basement shop with I have made into 3 areas. There is a wood storage area with homemade lumber racks on a wall, the scrap bin on wheels, my 12" sliding miter saw on a table I made with its own lumber racks above for what I'm working on, planer and jointer. 2nd area is where I do all the work to make things, I have my tablesaw setup permanently with out feed table, in corner are 2 drill presses. Router table, band saw, wood lathe, mortise mach, spindle sander are all on wheels. Some shelves with supplies, library, hand tools and other items. I have a cover I made for the table saw when I need an area to glue up, sand and assemble. 3rd area is just for finishing so its more or less my clean room. So that's me in a nut shell