The Test Cut

Offcuts

The short stuff: shop-floor photos, finds and half-finished thoughts, straight from @thetestcut. The full stories are in the builds.

  1. Two shelves of clamps, and it’s still not enough clamps.
  2. Tools are a pyramid scheme, but this track saw square came out of a printer.
  3. 1/2A clean shop is a happy shop!
  4. My end grain board does butcher block duty most of the time, and this on occasion.
  5. There is now a Resting Birch Face mug, and yes, I made that pun on purpose.
  6. This walnut end-grain checkerboard board turned out better than I expected.
  7. Twelve hours into an end-grain board, one slipped cut later, I understand why people pa…
  8. The most useful tool I've added to my shop in months is a red plate full of holes.
  9. Woodworking before YouTube existed: no skip button, no sponsor segment, no "smash that…