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        <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:22:53 +0000</pubDate>

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                <title>clamp cart v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/clamp-cart-v0-2kyqbg2</link>
                <description><![CDATA[I continue to have some weird issue about drilling holes in the walls (cf Timber Donkey), but I really needed to clean up this corner with all the clamps, scrap wood, and guide rails. I decided to use the scrap to build a simple A-frame style clamp cart. I effectively did no actual joinery on this thing, it&#039;s just glued and screwed, and none of the parts really match. But hey, I&#039;m not constantly tripping trying to get at the clamps and it hasn&#039;t fallen apart. It&#039;s a sign things are going well wh...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Timber Donkey</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/timber-donkey-zw5pdj6</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Both my spouse and a friend joked that my hobby is 90% building storage for my hobby, and she&#039;s not wrong. But we all need somewhere to put our wood, and for some reason I can&#039;t get over not wanting to drill holes in the walls to mount racks. A while ago, mujinmakes made what he called the Lumber Mule to deal with his own problems. You should watch the video; it&#039;s great (like all his stuff!) I opted to make a slightly smaller version of it, a foot less deep, shorter in length and height. I think...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>terrible toolbox v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/terrible-toolbox-v0-v3t8y0t</link>
                <description><![CDATA[I signed up for a class with Erik Curtis on hand tool joinery. It&#039;s bring your own tools! But I have no way of transporting them. My first idea was to build storage into something like Rex Krueger&#039;s saw bench, but that didn&#039;t seem pratical or portable. I decided instead to try and riff on Mike Pekovich&#039;s traveling tool chest, only bad. The class was great, and I had a lot of fun! I&#039;m looking forward to taking something else with him, ideally where we make something - when I&#039;m somewhat better. I ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>cutting board to coasters v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/cutting-board-to-coasters-v0-sng7z85</link>
                <description><![CDATA[I attempted to make a nice cutting board, out of walnut and maple, but we don&#039;t actually use wooden cutting boards so eventually I cut it into coasters, which we also don&#039;t really use, so I gave those away. We never actually used the cutting board, but for my new office desk I need a coaster. So.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>shop office desk v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/shop-office-desk-v0-ej9848c</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Since moving into the new space, I&#039;ve been working there about half the week, on a tiny half desk. The half desk is a COVID refugee - we had podded up with another family and hired a teacher for the children during remote learning. The living room and children&#039;s bedrooms were converted into half school rooms. The half desk was one of the children&#039;s and it&#039;s been kicking around the house since. I decide the first project for the new jointer is a desk for myself. Something at least attempting to b...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>whimsy shelf</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/whimsy-shelf-zw5mdj6</link>
                <description><![CDATA[The older child is all about 🌟whimsy 🌟, and requested we fill this access hole I cut in our entry way for our doorbell with a whimsical shadowbox. Everyone got in on this one. My initial idea was for something fancy (walnut with a thin maple back), but the design changed to the kid wanting to be able to insert different paintings in the back, and having some shelves for things. Adding to the design change, my spouse made this a birthday activity, so we all went to the shop to work on it. Nice bi...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Delta Rockwell Jointer (1953)</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/delta-rockwell-jointer-1953-pdnufky</link>
                <description><![CDATA[I got a hankering for a jointer. I had previously purchased the Oliver 13 benchtop planer, and it&#039;s great - but for a jointer I wanted something rather sturdier. The old shop had a big Jet or Grizzly cast iron jointer and I&#039;d like something similar. I hit the eBay and found someone selling what looks like an amazingly well maintained 6 Delta Rockwell jointer that&#039;s over 70 years old. I decide to call it a late birthday present. I drove to Virginia, and spent an hour chatting with the seller. He&#039;...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>tool wall and tables</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/tool-wall-and-tables-y0qce17</link>
                <description><![CDATA[At the old shop, I had a couple tool walls up on the walls. Here, for some reason, I am reticent to drill into the brick. I don&#039;t know why. There are other wood workers in the building, and they all have their wood racks and things up. And yet. So I decide to make some tables in the same style as the assembly table, but with big backings on them, to put tools on. In retrospect I did not make these deep enough - they wobble, and it&#039;s annoying, but so it goes. I finally figured out how to get 8ft ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>assembly table v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/assembly-table-v0-1ga38wv</link>
                <description><![CDATA[With a bunch more space, I could build some tables for things. The biggest mistake I made here was I built it taller than my workbench. It would have been much smarter to make it the same height. It&#039;s all 2x4, with a sacrificial OSB and 1/4 plywood top.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>shop v1</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/shop-v1-tckgqge</link>
                <description><![CDATA[After nearly a year in this space, I was getting a bit cramped - and I needed a place to work outside of my home office. I needed to find a bigger space. After some searching, I found a 700 sq ft (7x what I had!) spot with big windows, A/C, a loading dock, and a freight elevator. Moving was non-trivial but with some help I got it done in a week. End of a very transformative era for me, and I&#039;m really grateful to the shop owner for renting me a spot. Veritas no7 for scale in the last picture:]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Mullet Workbench</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/mullet-workbench-hb6rt4e</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Early on I realized I wanted to make my own workbench. There are several major types, and then many different variants within those. I focused on the Roubo style and Chris Schwarz&#039;s Anarchists Workbench. I knew whatever I did, it was going to be a huge effort making a bench with hand tools. I really wanted to make it out of hard maple, which is traditional, but I knew that this was my first bench, I&#039;m not exactly experienced, and it was probably not going to go well. Spending close to $2000 USD ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>ice cream cone caddy v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/ice-cream-cone-caddy-v0-wy7364p</link>
                <description><![CDATA[We eat a surprising amount of ice cream in this house, given that two of us are lactose intolerant. Ever since Cuzzy&#039;s reopened, it&#039;s like a box of cones a week. So my spouse requested a caddy. In most ways this is a duplicate of the marking gauge layout holder, but with legs. The only tricky part of this build was cutting the thin strips - this is maybe the only operation that makes me wish I used the table saw.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>marking gauge holder v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/marking-gauge-holder-v0-d6vv23r</link>
                <description><![CDATA[A quick project to hold my various marking gauges. Hard maple, because I make poor decisions sometimes.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>sharpening table v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/sharpening-table-v0-98urs7z</link>
                <description><![CDATA[A friend of mine had shown me his sharpening table a while back and I was pretty jealous. I have been storing my stones underneath the workbench top, which isn&#039;t too bad - but it means to sharpen I have to pull them out, vacuum them off, and then put it all away when I was done. It would be much nicer to just take the blades to a station and sharpen there. I knew I wanted a hand grinder to mount on it as well, so it would need to be a decently sized table. Restoring the grinder is going to be a ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>plane till v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/plane-till-v0-tcknqge</link>
                <description><![CDATA[After a year of woodworking, I had acquired a lot of hand planes. Arguably too many. I needed somewhere to store them. Like Saw Till v0, a Plane Till made the most sense. Again, there are lots of ways to do this, but my overriding philosophy in the shop is I need something, I should be able to just grab it off the wall. So I wanted a relatively simple wall-mounted till. I didn&#039;t want a complicated cleat system, but obviously they should not just be sliding off on the ground. Planes don&#039;t like fa...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>shoe box v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/shoe-box-v0-f2wbhyp</link>
                <description><![CDATA[For my first real home project, I had sort of built some cabinet doors. But they hadn&#039;t fit and it was before I had gotten a real shooting board, so the project got pushed back. My first actual project was a five foot shoe box for our entry way. In our house, there&#039;s a three foot entry hallway that is always cluttered up with shoes. In the winter, you can&#039;t walk in without tripping and almost dying. My spouse has long requested we solve this problem, and so this was my first actual commissioned ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Moxon vise v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/moxon-vise-v0-57h7v73</link>
                <description><![CDATA[A Moxon vise, or twin screw vise, is extremely useful. I&#039;m not sure where in the rabbit warren I first saw it, but of course Chris Schwarz has an article about it. I had a bunch of hard maple laying around (this is a theme) from the aborted first attempt at filling the tool well on my borrowed workbench. I decided to cut this down and use it for a Moxon vise. I use this vise all the time, and love it. My only complaint is I have to move it around a bunch, and it&#039;s not - by design - particularly ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>chisel holder v1</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/chisel-holder-v1-q1rc9a9</link>
                <description><![CDATA[This was a quick one. I had acquired too many chisels for the v0 holder, and just needed more slots. This was done in an hour or two, max. Quick and dirty.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Sjoberg tool well</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/sjoberg-tool-well-4ps0a1t</link>
                <description><![CDATA[The shop owner had kindly lent me one of her old benches until I could (eventually) build my own. I didn&#039;t like the tool well. I didn&#039;t like losing that table space, and stuff just accumulated in it. Working on moderately sized pieces meant running out of space. I didn&#039;t want to make any destructive changes, but the wall and well could both be removed. My first thought was to fill it with hard maple - I had plenty, and the added weight to the bench would be appreciated.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Stanley no7 jointer plane</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/stanley-no7-jointer-plane-85mrnwy</link>
                <description><![CDATA[I thought my Stanley and Veritas jacks did fine flattening the top of Saw Bench v0, but I knew for anything longer I was going to need a jointer plane. Or anyway, I wanted one. I picked up a Stanley no 7C Type 15 off eBay. It came from a retiree who took tool packing and restoration very seriously. I don&#039;t use it all that often, but when I do it&#039;s great.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>saw bench v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/saw-bench-v0-hb6st4e</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Sawing long boards can be a real pain. You can clamp them to random surfaces, or if you have a good vise and they fit, you can cut them at a diagonal. If your bench isn&#039;t heavy enough, or your vise the wrong kind entirely, you&#039;re going to have a bad time. Rex Krueger had posted a video about his saw bench, a traditional piece of shop furniture exactly for ripping boards down. I grabbed his plans and some 2x4s and gave it a go. It went pretty well. The saw bench is a stop on almost every project,...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>saw till v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/saw-till-v0-f2wqhyp</link>
                <description><![CDATA[By late July 2025 I had acquired a number of saws - both Western and Japanese. I needed somewhere to put them that wasn&#039;t a pile on a filing cabinet, or hanging somewhat precariously on a wall for me to slice myself on. I started off looking up plans, and general patterns for what might be useful to me. The core issue was my little office closet didn&#039;t have much space to hang new cabinets on the wall, but I figured at least they&#039;d be in one place, and if I ever did get a bigger space they could ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>chisel holder v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/chisel-holder-v0-98uzs7z</link>
                <description><![CDATA[I had gotten a set of bench chisels from StewMac and needed somewhere to store them. I had decided early on I didn&#039;t want things hidden in drawers, so I wanted to put them up on the tool board. I took an afternoon and made a little board with hidden magnets to hold them in place. This holder is no longer in use and was replaced by Chisel Holder v1.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Square holder v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/square-holder-v0-d65d23r</link>
                <description><![CDATA[My engineer squares needed somewhere to live so I could actually find them when I needed them. My tool board was the obvious place, and I figured it would only take an hour to two to make something crappy that worked. I knew I wanted all the squares to live together, and that I wanted it to be easy to pull them off and put them back on. I had some magnets, and plenty of scrap. Even if it looks like junk, this holder is still in use.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>init</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/init-q1rn9a9</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Around a year ago I needed a new hobby. I had tried picking up guitar (many guitars), but I wasn&#039;t sticking with it. I needed something physical that would (eventually) get me out of the house. Around mid-April, I found the Harvey Benton guitar kits, and thought it&#039;d be a fun project for the children and I. And it was! We decided on a Gideon the Ninth theme - a book I had loved since it came out, and the children had grafted onto as well. We designed, tested, failed, learned how to kind of spray...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>shop v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/shop-v0-pdn4fky</link>
                <description><![CDATA[In October of 2025, after five months of acquiring things and working on a few little projects, I outgrew the closet woodshop and rented a corner in a real workshop in North Philly. Everything about this would be something I had never done before. The first step was to get something up on the wall, but that brick was not at all even, and I didn&#039;t really know how to shim things into being a flat surface. The process was iterative. I went with KM Tools cleat system over making my own cleats. I dec...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Shooting board v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/shooting-board-v0-6e7wkgj</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Almost immediately when you start trying to put two pieces of wood together, you realize how difficult it is to make things square - which is to say, straight. (These terms are so loaded, you have to laugh.) A friend recommended that one of the first jigs I make be a shooting board - a way to square the ends of boards so they can be joined together. If you aren&#039;t using an electric jointer, this is a nominally simple way of squaring things up. So following KM Tools&#039; plans, I set out trying to mak...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Screwdriver holder v0</title>
                <link>https://analogmethods.pckt.blog/screwdriver-holder-v0-brydcy2</link>
                <description><![CDATA[My first tool holder. Just a piece of wood and some holes in it. I had some spare 2x4 studs from ripping the office closet apart, so just used that. Cutting an L shape like this was a bit silly, but this hardly the dumbest thing I&#039;ve done, and one of my mantras is everything is good practice. This is no longer in use; I replaced it with a 3D printed holder from KM Tools.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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