Recent content by Karl Brogger

I've worked in dirty, I've worked in clean. I much prefer clean.

This is my experience with Blum hardware. 5/8 overlay is the max you can achieve without rubbing on a 110º hinge, that's with a zero millimeter plate. A 110º+ hinge gets you to 11/16" with a zero millimeter plate. For us, anything greater than that 11/16" overlay requires switching to an...

Old pictures posted a long time ago. I'm sure all of the hotlinks are long dead

I've never understood the dirty shop mentality. Clean is so much easier. That router is an absolute animal.

The shop mostly in it's current state.

Same same. Building cabinets, trying not to freeze to death. I kinda forgot about this forum for a while. I was looking up info about some software, and a link came up here.

You have to move a lot of air to make a downdraft table work well. A few thousand on a table of much size is really inadequate. Ours is 48x72 and I think it's 5000cfm? I'd have to look it up to be sure

This has been a little side project of mine for way too long. I bought this shaper in 08' or 09', and hadn't set it up anything until yesterday. I picked it up at an auction for $200. It just sat under a pallet rack for a couple of years until I moved into the building I'm in now, back in...

For ever, or at least over the course of the last few thousand dovetail drawer boxs I've built, I've been pounding them together with a hammer and a block of wood. Some go easily, some are cranky, but they've all carried the Estwing stamp of assembly. Until today friends, until today. I had...

I'm in the early stages of planning out a new shop. Right now I'm looking at putting up a 7200 sq/ft building with a 16' sidewall. Dimensions would be 60' x 120', with the office outside of the main building. The plan is to put a partition wall on one end, leaving a 28x60 area for staging...

Sunburst ceiling panel for my house flipping project in the front entry.

The top of the new widebelt sander is about 90" off the floor, the gates for the dust collection are about 6" above that, and completely out of reach. I drilled three holes in the end of the blast gates where they have a 90º bend in them for the handle. The two outside holes are for a piece...

The shop has a new toy coming. Guess what it is. You've got twenty questions.

My one employee bailed on me. I'm staring at a stack of 91 drawers that need to be run through the widebelt, machined, sanded, assembled, sanded again, and drilled for hardware. grrrrr.

This is one job. And the largest I've ever done. A little fuzzy on the details, but from memory: The job is all inset. 90%+ painted, the remainder being Walnut, with one very small Maple butcher block in the kitchen. 84 Drawers, solid birch dovetailed drawers. Blum 562H slides. 88 Drawer...