by hupka | Apr 15, 2019 | Products, Woodshop
General Finishes makes a lot of great products that we like to use in our shop. We aren’t affiliated with them in any way (We’d love to be! haha) but it’s been important to us to share our experiences with products both good and bad. We have been...
by hupka | Mar 29, 2019 | Drill Bit, Hand Tools
Sometimes getting a new tool is a lot like going to a toy store as a kid. There is excitement and anticipation and you can’t wait to get home and open it up and maybe, just maybe, you’ll stop and get ice cream on the way. Oh what a day! We needed a...
by hupka | Feb 26, 2019 | Maintenance
It’s helpful to have a shorter sibling around when you need to do maintenance on the dust collection pipes. Having her stand comfortably on the work benches instead of spending the day on a ladder is handy. www.esswoodworking.com
by hupka | Feb 20, 2019 | Band Saw, Woodshop
New toy day at the shop again. We currently run two Grizzly Industrial G0555 band saws at ES&S. Right out of the box they run a 93″ saw blade which is perfect for the majority of projects. One of our saws was upgraded with a 6″ riser kit several years...
by hupka | Jan 28, 2019 | Table Saw, Woodshop
Shop maintenance is almost complete. Our primary table saw, the Grizzly G1023SLW, was the last major piece of equipment to get torn down and overhauled. After reinstalling the deck you have to be 100% certain the the blade is perfectly parallel to the tracks machined...
by hupka | Jan 25, 2019 | Benson, Information, Woodshop
After a long day in the shop Benson earns himself some much needed R&R. We’ve had the wood shop torn apart since the holidays as we rebuild and repair our machines as well as make some much needed improvements. We are in the home stretch and will soon be...
