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| 91 days ago |
Reface or rebuild kitchen cabinets? - 5 replies I’m considering building new kitchen cabinets for an upcoming project, and will be converting my kitchen (and much of the rest of the house) to look as Arts & Crafts as possible. Wainscoting and the like. But in the kitchen, I was wondering about simply building new face frames and either replacing the existing ones or adding these... |
| 131 days ago |
Edge joining doesn't quite look right again! - 7 replies I’m making two more of the quilt rack I recently completed (and of which I posted pictures recently), and wouldn’t you know it, again one of my sides didn’t quite fit along the edge joint the way I would have hoped. There are some slight gaps and irregularities that didn’t appear when I was test-fitting it on my workbenc... |
| 180 days ago |
Pattern routing -- what went wrong? - 25 replies Okay, so I decided to try pattern routing the feet for my quilt racks today. The first one was going very well (apart from the fact that the pattern i’d clamped to the foot kept shifting slightly, but I managed to compensate for the most part), as can be seen in the photos below. Then I switched to the other side and it all came ap... |
| 181 days ago |
Can a bad glue-up be saved? - 13 replies Well, I royally screwed up one of the sides for a quilt rack I’m building. It’s my first real woodworking project, so I’m trying not to beat myself up too much. Here’s what happened: I had the boards (two) jointed, and half of a mortise cut into each. They’re about 30” long, so I used five dowels to join... |
| 232 days ago |
When to joint & plane? - 10 replies I’m about to embark on my first project using hardwood. Until now, everything I’ve done has used dimensional lumber and sheetgoods from my local Home Depot, but now I’m going to build a craftsman-style quilt rack for my wife and another (at the same time) for her quilting partner. I’ve got a bunch of 3/4 thick white o... |
| 284 days ago |
Router table update - 1 reply I just got a free router table when a woodworking buddy upgraded to a new Woodpeck table and his loss is my gain. That said, his insert plate didn’t fit my Freud router so I’ve picked up a new plate from Rockler. It’s a tad bigger than the current opening so I picked up an MDF template also from Rockler and routed out a new... |
| 382 days ago |
Craft table for my kids - 12 replies My wife and I were really intrigued by this kids craft table and after realizing that with shipping to Denver it was going to cost us nearly $250, I decided to try to design a similar table that I could build for them. I have a SU model at home that I’ll post this evening showing my current plan. I’m trying to suss out what to us... |
