Wine Cabinet

Tom Muellner sent in this beautiful wine cabinet. (This is my first attempt to update this blog from my Androit Tablet so let's see what happens! My apologies to Tom if this doesnt come out very well.)

My home shop consists of 4 Shopsmiths: two 10er's and two Mk5's. The age range is 1952 to 1986. One Mk5 is a "shortie' with a 510 table setup.

Why four? I suppose it's because I don't have room for more. What can I say? I'm a "Smith" junkie. Actually, that's usually how I bought them. Other than my original 10er that my dad bought new, all have been acquired in various stages of disrepair. All have been rebuilt by me.

In the process, I've gotten just about all the available accessories. I leave the 510 shortie set as a table saw with the jointer on the end, the 500 powers my bandsaw & is used mostly in horizontal boring or drill press mode, one 10er is mostly lathe or disk sander, and the other 10er is set up as a dado saw & has an extra table with a router mounted under it.

I do some converting or swapping modes from time to time, depending on my needs, but the default setup seems to serve me well.

This is a wine cabinet I built for my son using an old wood wine case as the focal point for bottles. Dados, miters, rabbets, complex operations...all done on the 10er & Mk5. Everything fits. How about that???
Inbox'>My home shop consists of 4 Shopsmiths: two 10er's and two Mk5's. The age range is 1952 to 1986. One Mk5 is a "shortie' with a 510 table setup.

Why four? I suppose it's because I don't have room for more. What can I say? I'm a "Smith" junkie. Actually, that's usually how I bought them. Other than my original 10er that my dad bought new, all have been acquired in various stages of disrepair. All have been rebuilt by me.

In the process, I've gotten just about all the available accessories. I leave the 510 shortie set as a table saw with the jointer on the end, the 500 powers my bandsaw & is used mostly in horizontal boring or drill press mode, one 10er is mostly lathe or disk sander, and the other 10er is set up as a dado saw & has an extra table with a router mounted under it.

I do some converting or swapping modes from time to time, depending on my needs, but the default setup seems to serve me well.

This is a wine cabinet I built for my son using an old wood wine case as the focal point for bottles. Dados, miters, rabbets, complex operations...all done on the 10er & Mk5. Everything fits. How about that???

Curio Table

This stunning curio table was built by Paul M.  Paul used all 5 main functions of his Shopsmith 10ER. Here's what he has to say about using the Shopsmith 10ER on this project:

The veneered "Curio Cabinet" is a good example of the precision that can be achieved with even the oldest models of Shopsmith. The most critical fits in this piece are the matched grain miters on the corners. With no framing inside the miter must be a perfect fit to glue properly. If the miter is open on the outside the corner is ruined. If the miter is open on the inside, there is no glue joint. To top it off, you can't keep re-cutting a joint because not only will it ruin the grain match, but all the other corners will have to be altered to size and they are all grain matches. You only get one chance to get it right. This was accomplished easily on my 10 ER, a tool that many would dismiss as a poor choice for this because it has a tilting table and limited mitering width. I constructed a very simple miter sled for the job and because the table and alignment of the 10ER were accurate and rigid the sled worked perfectly. This is only the most obvious example but it relates to one of the biggest "negatives" blamed on the Shopsmith. My 10 ER will not produce "production efficiency" because of the changeovers required between functions but it was never meant to. What it will produce is precision results.

The full build was documented with pictures that can be seen in this photo album.

Beauty shots of the final product are in this photo album.

Table Saw

Disc Sander



Drill Press

Horizontal Boring Machine

Lathe