Well the progress of my final project has once again been postponed and modified to better accommodate my for the third marking period; as I need to diligently work on my pine box…. Which I will post a final picture of to display that I at l...
Hello to all lumberjocks!
As the title says, I am pretty new to woodworking. I have a lot of questions about techniques, tools, and ideas for projects. It seems as one question gets answered another one peaks my interest. Right now I am interes...
“Popping” curly maple is something I’ve wanted to try for some time, so I decided to test it on drawer fronts for a slant cabinet I built last year. My buddies at O-P Hardwood were out of curly maple so I ended up using curly maple veneer.
The...
One of the arguments I’ve seen is about whether people should really trust the electronics. For better or worse, that ship has already sailed. We already know that we put our lives on the line every time we hop in a car. Although our safe...
So a coworker of mine decided to be generous, but not in the way I would have liked… this colleague decided to come to work sick, and share the joy as it were.. Now I am out, although working remotely, and feeling pretty miserable…
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There are a lot of debates swirling around the Internet when it comes to SawStop. You’ve got technology, political lobbying, lawsuits, and violence. Then there’s the limited liability entity—is the founder a greedy overlord, be...
I am practicing on the making of what some call a Osolnik Style Rolling Pin—Laminated rolling pins with multiple woods. I have read a number of references on the how-to but still struggle with the details of the diagonal cut vs the width of...
This week in wood shop I cut out my traced side pieces for the gun rack. I used the band saw to get as close to the trace as possible and then I sanded down the rest. It took 2 days to sand but most importantly I am happy with the results. Today I...
I missed posting yesterday because I didn’t really feel that I had anything unusual or interesting to talk about . Things here have been really busy and I find that some days I just don’t have a lot of new information to share. I am c...
For the first project of 2014 on JordsWoodShop we will be making a simple yet beautiful dining room table with matching bench seats.
In this video we make a solid base for our massive table top.
Email your project photos to: “viewersco...
i have seen no reminders about the contest and the voting, but the voting is going on now, so please folks, look at the projects and please vote for your favorite…thank you
Step 5- plot out the cuts.
Here we are going for a slab 8’’ thick 55’’ average width by 11 feet long.
step 6- enjoy a look inside
After nearly 300 years of growing and some hard work we finally get our first pe...
Well it’s been a couple weeks and the bitter cold snap has slowed the progress a bit.. but here’s the progress since we last met. I wrapped up the Toddler Rail joinery… voila!
And surface prepped the walnut for finishing w...
It’s been a couple of month since I built woodspotting.com. It grew out of the frustration of current RSS readers, and the tiresome aspect of opening 20+ woodworking blogs to see if they had new content. Today, the site gets a regular and gr...
Heres a step by step process I took to make a Moroccan table frame for a brass tray top!
These are pics i found online for inspiration!
The fist steps I took was to make a full scale template out of mdfcut this rectangle 32’’...
The stretchers are made from construction 2×6s. I cut a 1/4” off each side to make square (no round edges) and let them sit in the shop for a month or so. One of them twisted, so I was glad I had extras. I followed Schwarz’s plans...
I recently joined Lumberjocks on the recommendation of my niece Mary & her husband Sam from Roxboro in NC.They both said that I needed to “get back into woodworking again”, so I thought what’s to lose. To be honest I have bee...
It’s time to upgrade my old Ridgid TS2424 contractor style table saw to a new cabinet saw.
In this upgrade there A LOT of choices to be made.
I have investigated, among others the Baileigh, Jet, Grizzly, Powermatic, Delta, Shop Fox Sawstop, an...
I just had the Good Fortune or Misfortune of purchasing a Delta 18 inch Model 40-650 scroll saw with table. I realize this is an OLD Scroll saw. The price was about what I might pay for the stand at retail. The man I purchased it from was a genu...
Pasochnitsa build is described in previous blog entries.And now it’s time to make a storage box for it.In this build I tried some techniques new for me, including making dovetails, making sliding cap, using shooting board and router plain.Fi...
When I left off I had completed the first of four for this box.
I thought I would share a little more on the process of the mitered dovetails and update the progress on this project.
Something I have learned about dovetails in general is to ...
I opted for the Kreg Precision Trak and Stop System for my miter saw fence. I attended the New England Woodworking Show in January and Peachtree was selling the system at a discount that put the price lower than any I had seen so I bought it. Wh...
Cold weather certainly doesn’t help when most of your cutting, sanding and routing has to be done under the patio cover. I know that most of my Buddies on LJs are in worse weather regions than I am, but still, brrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Cold weath...
Good day to you all.
It had come to my attention that the links for many of the videos in my Lumberjocks online scroll saw class entries were missing. I have had several emails sent from those who wanted to see the videos that went along with ...
Hello fellow woodworkers,
I love quilted maple and nothing is more fun than putting some finish on it….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaIzinaIhDs
Thanks for watching
With the plans drawn up, it is now time to mill the rough lumber. As per the title of the series, I am using poplar for this project, mainly because it is inexpensive, and this project was meant partly as practice in joinery. I might have gone wit...
I’ve been working on this bench for more than a year and am finally almost finished. The base is ash and is from a plan I got from woodstore.net and the top is 2×6 lumber from Home Depot and is loosely based on the Stumpy Nubs 2×6...
I used 1/4 inch zinc u-channel for the perimeter and 3/8 inch lead came (flat h style) for everything else. I initially tried the came in zinc and ruined it! For me, the zinc came was very hard to work with and looked awful. Conversely, the le...
For quite awhile now this is how my pliers have been stored above my workbench…
Since I was puttering around the shop today with yet another snow day. I finally took a few minutes to make a rack. I used some games that did not turn ou...
Well it was just another snow day here. I am sure a lot of you are familiar with those this winter. While I was working on a few things in the shop my daughter decided she wanted to do something as well. She is a big fan of the Doc McStuffins cart...
For the first project of 2014 on JordsWoodShop we will be making a simple yet beautiful dining room table with matching bench seats.
In this video we make a solid base for our massive table top.
Email your project photos to: “viewersco...
Hello fellow woodworkers,
I love quilted maple and nothing is more fun than putting some finish on it….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaIzinaIhDs
Thanks for watching
Step 1- find a giant elm
FOUND ONE!
I believe it to be a piece of this one. I’m working on confirming it.
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step 2 – find a giant ...
Weekly Woodworking Wrap-up Review is a video I release every Friday morning where we talk the the latest news and videos in the woodworking world. I also answer viewer questions and discuss what’s going on in my workshop. You can watch the latest ...
This was a simple project using left over end grain butcher block from a previous project! For this interested in viewing the build, check it out here: http://youtu.be/S38ByU6iZys
Thank you and Enjoy!!!
This project is coming along! In this video, I start making the cabinet from hard maple from the base up. All the joinery for the cabinet is held together with dominos. I then route the back of the cabinet to accept the solid maple panel back.
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I needed a new table saw sled for a different saw i’m using. I’m currently finishing a miter saw cut station I built & needed a sled to make small cuts. After having made a few others I notice how wooden sleds react to moisture con...
This month I created a tribute video to Edward Barnseley, one of the last Arts and Craft English woodworkers who created furniture with only hand tools until 1951,. The video captures some iconic photos of woodworking that remind us why we got in...
This is my easy DIY crosscut sled. My old one is now garbage so I needed to redo it. I use the five cut method to dial it in within .002 of an inch in accuracy. For those of you that want to see the build here is a video link!
PS.: I did make o...
Hello everyone. Here’s my latest and hopefully last for a little while addition to my French cleat wall. I may do something else for the wall in the future but I doubt it will be a video. This was a useful project that anyone can benefit fro...
Creating Your Own Patterns and Designs – Extra Features
In this lesson, I’ll show you some extra features found in the Pattern Wizard that are very useful.If you’ve found these lessons helpful, please share these lesson links ...
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