Today we take a look at my personal top 10
3d prints for woodworking shop.
Number 10: Sanding strips
If you have to sand in a very tight spot these
small-scale sanding blocks are a big help.
You can find a link to this and all other
models in the video description.
You can however even take the sanding form
one step further and create your own custom
sanding forms for special profiles or roundovers.
Number 9: Lamello distance plate and drill
guide
This Lamello clamex connector is great for
knock-down joinery as it only requires a small
hole and is basically invisible.
To create the holes I designed this drill
guide.
If you position them at a 90 degree corner
you can use the distance plate that comes
with the jointer to combine 2 4mm slots into
one 8mm slot that the connector requires.
For mitred corner joints you either spend
180 bucks for a 8mm thick blade or 2 bucks
for this custom-made distance plate that does
the same as the one that comes with the jointer
for mitred corner joints and creates a 8 mm
slot.
Number 8: Keyhole hangers
This is a very simple but quite helpful design
that you can customize to your needs on my
thingiverse page.
To hang a picture just bore a right sized
hole and either press fit or glue the print
in that hole to hang a picture.
Number 7: Shims
This might be the simplest possible 3d print.
I always have a few simple prints in different
thincknesses at hand.
This way it’s very easy to move the workpiece
another 1,5 mm closer to the tablesaw blade.
Number 6: Corner clamps
With four of these prints and a ratchet strap
gluing up picture frames and boxes gets easy
and reliable.
Number 5: Soft pads for clamps
If you are like me the soft pads that come
with your clamps seem to magically disappear
in the shop.
In this case it’s great if you can easily
print a replacement.
Number 4: Dust collection adapters
I use adapters of all sizes in my shop.
They connect the large dust collection at
my shop-made table saw overhead arm.
They connect different sizes of hoses and
I even use some more complex Y-shaped adapters
to split the airflow.
Number 3: Edgebanding trimmer
I found this design on thigiverse and love
it.
You simply put the blade of a utility knife
in the jig, screw it tight and it makes trimming
edge banding super simple and easy.
Number 2: Router guides
My number 2 is actually an entire category
of 3dprints that guide my router.
I use this principle a lot.
Be it to create a simple drilling guide, to
create floating tenons or to cut complex joinery.
I have links to videos for each of these jigs
in the description.
Number 1: Knobs
The most frequently used 3dprint in my shop
by far is the adjustment knob.
I needs these knobs constantly for jigs and
shop projects to make adjustment easy or to
lock things in place.
Buying them in the hardware store is not only
expensive but also takes quite some time.
Having the possibility to print them with
a single click is great.
Although I recently upgraded to a larger 3d
printer all of the things in this video were
printed on a Anet A8 printer that costs around
120 bucks.
I will leave a link to this printer in the
description and hopefully you got some ideas
how to use a 3dprinter in your shop.
Please leave a comment if you have great ideas
how to make use of a 3dprinter and don’t
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