{"id":167,"date":"2008-11-02T21:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2008-11-12T22:05:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T02:05:37","slug":"box-o-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/02\/box-o-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Box o&#8217; blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_1590_edited-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168  aligncenter\" title=\"img_1590_edited-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_1590_edited-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one my essential <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/hello-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">habits of work <\/a><\/strong>that I think, while decidedly unspectacular, warrants sharing with my fellow woodworkers. When I\u2019m in the shop it\u2019s usually only a\u00a0short time\u00a0before I need a small piece of scrap wood for something. It may be for a stop block on my router table fence, a clamp pad, a\u00a0spacer for clamping stock in the tail vise between dogs, a thin shim to set a door gap, a square block to guide freehand drilling, or for\u00a0countless other uses.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates for the box o\u2019 blocks usually are produced as <strong>squared, uniform offcuts <\/strong>from the table saw or bandsaw. That little box almost always seems to have what I need, from a shim that\u2019s, oh, just a bit under 1\/32&#8243; to a stout block to hammer against to reset a tool handle.<\/p>\n<p>The box contains reminiscences of distantly completed projects such as old tenon cheek cutoffs. I\u2019ve been using this box long enough that I can fondly remember when my then very young daughter and I would play in the shop gluing together little scraps.\u00a0For her, the\u00a0main purpose of the box was to save <strong>nifty pieces of wood<\/strong>\u00a0to play with. So the box has served more than one purpose, and, come to think of it, so does the shop. Furniture and memories\u00a0are built there.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure <strong>this tip is not in any woodworking textbook<\/strong> but that box o\u2019 blocks has served well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one my essential habits of work that I think, while decidedly unspectacular, warrants sharing with my fellow woodworkers. When I\u2019m in the shop it\u2019s usually only a\u00a0short time\u00a0before I need a small piece of scrap wood for something. It may be for a stop block on my router table fence, a clamp pad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-and-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}