Tools -- 3 for the Price of 1

It's raining, can't do anything outside so thought I would have a go at making some woodwork tools.

All of my stuff is mainly made from scrap, quite often from inorganic waste (roadside dumps), I like to recycle and people seem to dump a lot of old solid wood furniture.

Tools :-

Pillar Drill

Bandsaw

Holesaws

Tablesaw/Chopsaw

Drillbits

Epoxy Glue

Bench Sander

Grinder

Materials for the Marking Gauge :-

Small Hardwood Block (mine was 70x45x45mm)

Dowel (I used 10mm)

40mm Hex Head Roofing Screw

8mm Bolt 50mm long

Butterfly nut

Materials for the Sanding Block :-

6 inch piece of 4x2

6 inch piece of 4x 1/2inch

8mm Carriage Bolt 50mm long

8mm Tee Nut

Small piece of 4x2 for handle

Materials for Drill Sanding Attachment :-

8mm carriage Bolt 150mm long

8mm Butterfly nut

8mm plain nut

Metal strip (I used a piece of Meccano)

Small Screws

I cut a piece of wood from a scrap table leg, not sure what the wood is, either Kwila or Redwood.

The dimensions are 70mm x 45mm x 45mm.

I drilled a 10mm hole in the centre of the piece to allow the dowel to pass through.

I then drilled another hole towards one end of the piece, this was 8mm to suit the clamping bolt. I also drilled a 15mm recess for the bolt head.

Using the Bandsaw, I cut a slot from one end to the dowel hole. I then inserted the dowel and the bolt and tightened with a butterfly nut to ensure that the dowel was clamped firmly when the nut was tightened.

Once I was satisfied with it I epoxy glued the nut head in position and allowed it to dry.

I screwed in a roofing screw into a small piece of dowel and mounted in my pillar drill. I then used a file to sharpen the "washer" of the screw.

I then drilled the dowel and mounted the sharpened screw into it. I also marked the dowel at 10mm intervals as a guide.

Then I checked it all worked

I cut a piece of 4x2 and 4x1/2 to the same size.

The 4x2 is a piece of framing timber (softwood) and the 4x1/2 is hardwood (Rimu from a broken drawer)

I then sanded both and drilled an 8mm hole through the centre of both.

I counter drilled the base of the 4x2 for the carriage drill bolt head.

Using 2 different size hole saws I drilled halfway through a piece of scrap 4x2 with the larger, then from the other side with the smaller to give a stepped handle

I pressed a Tee Nut into the handle hole.

I put a bolt through the centre and mounted the handle in the drill for sanding.

I assembled and epoxy glued the 50mm carriage bolt in the bottom recess. Once dry I cut a sheet of sandpaper and put it in. Tightening the handle secures the paper in place.

I haven't got space for a spindle sander, so have made an adaption for my pillar drill.

First I cut some circled from scrap 4x2

I then mounted 2 of the circles on a 150mm carriage bolt using an 8mm nut at each end, cut the head off of the bolt using a grinder and mounted them in the drill to sand the outside

Using the table saw I cut a slot along the length of the circles

I used a small piece of Meccano to secure the sandpaper in position and screws to hold it in place.

Tested - It Works.

And there they all are, about an hours messing around all together, and it's still raining!