| This blog is written by CaptainSkully | 40 entries so far |
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Kite Camera Reel #4: Almost Done!
I was able to squeeze another day in the shop. We started out by finishing up the parallel linka...
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Kite Camera Reel #3: A Day's Progress...
I finally got another day in the shop. We’re starting to run out of time. We leave in two...
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Arts & Crafts Mantle Clock #3: Ordering
I’m about to pull the trigger on my order from Klockit.com. I had a few questions about wh...
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Kite Camera Reel #2: Reel Pressure...
I glued up the blanks for the second reel this morning, hoping they would be ready to cut out thi...
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Arts & Crafts Mantle Clock #2: Disappointment
I finally received my shipment from Rockler. I opened up the packaging for one set of the AA pow...
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Kite Camera Reel #1: Day 1: No Rush...
I have a buddy who won a sailboat charter in the British Virgin Islands. I started off promising...
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Barrel Wine Rack #2: Inside Job...
I glued support ribs along the insides of both sides to support the top and shelves. I also had ...
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Barrel Wine Rack #1: The Sides...
It’s been at least a day since I started a new project/blog. My buddy Eric always says...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #9: Finish Line
I finally had a day to work on our stuff. With a little urging from my girlfriend to finish ...
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Arts & Crafts Mantle Clock #1: One for You, One for Me...
I figured it was time to start another new blog. We’ve got friends that are getting marrie...
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Arts & Crafts Night Stands #8: The Pour
If I didn’t pour today, it would be several days until I’d have time to do it, so I s...
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Arts & Crafts Night Stands #7: Glue & Mold
After finishing the parts with TransTint #6003 Reddish Brown and three coats of hand-rubbed p...
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Arts & Crafts Night Stands #6: Almost Done!
Today, I made the drawers, using a square lock joint on the table saw. It was trickier than I ex...
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Arts & Crafts Night Stands #5: Dry Fit!
I was able to plane the stock for the shelves yesterday. I glued up a large enough blank for...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #8: Ammonia Fume Finish
Well, after three days in solitary, I decided to pop the the weasel. The different boards fu...
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Craftsman Dining Room Set #6: The Hard Part
So, today I ran over to Plywood & Lumber Sales in Oakland, CA and purchased about 100 board f...
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Darrell Peart's Aurora Sofa Table #5: Breadboard Ends
While I’m ammonia fuming another project, I figured I’d make progress on this one. I...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #7: Fumearama
After letting the glue cure overnight, I took it out of the clamps and gave it a final hand s...
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Darrell Peart's Aurora Sofa Table #4: Table Top
As I was waiting for another project to dry, I did a little work on the table top. I had cut it ...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #6: Final Glue Up & Finish
At the urging of my girlfriend, I fumed a small scrap of QSWO and then went over it with amber sh...
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Darrell Peart's Aurora Sofa Table #3: Wood Selection
Being as it’s Labor Day Weekend, and I’m out of QSWO, and my lumber yard isn’t ...
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Darrell Peart's Aurora Sofa Table #2: Virtual Design
I’ve spent a couple of hours in AutoCAD trying to find the right proportions (using the Gol...
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Darrell Peart's Aurora Sofa Table #1: In the Beginning...
This is my most ambitious project to date. I’m going to make a Greene & Greene sofa ta...
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Arts & Crafts Night Stands #4: Sides...
I sanded the appropriate parts of the parts (don’t sand anything that mates with another pa...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #5: Progress as Promised...
Today, I was able to glue up the top, cut it out, and sand it. It looks pretty damn cool. ...
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Arts & Crafts Night Stands #3: Some Assembly Required...
Today, I took the rough parts and managed to achieve a few dry fits. The first one was to make s...
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Arts & Crafts Night Stands #2: Going Topless...
I’ve been working the graveyard shift all week (which has seriously impeded my woodworking ...
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Craftsman Dining Room Set #5: Slight Change of Plans
Just a short update. While surfing plans, as I am wont to do, I stumbled across these trestle ta...
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Arts & Crafts Night Stands #1: Ripping the Legs
As you may or may not know, last year I cut off my middle finger while ripping the legs out o...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #4: Template Routing
I was able to get back out into the shop and make some progress on this project. This was my fir...
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Stickley Sideboard #1: Selecting the Plans
At first, I was enamored with #802, as done so well by Dale I looked it up in Robert Lang&...
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Craftsman Dining Room Set #4: Change of Plans?
Thanks in large part to WhatTheChuck, I’m giving serious thought to changing the design of ...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #3: Jigs & Dry Fit
Following TreeFrog as closely as possible, I cut out the blanks for the sides. I cheated a tad a...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #2: Glue Ups
Yesterday, I milled up four long, rough boards to 3/4”. The Robert Lang book uses thicker ...
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Craftsman Dining Room Set #3: Rationalized Need
After working in the Valley for a couple of weeks, I decided to spend some of my harder than ...
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Craftsman Dining Room Set #2: Template Adjustment
So, we decided that 72” was a bit overpowering. I yanked the pseudo-top out into the garag...
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Limbert Lamp Table - Stickley #240 #1: Templates
So, between TreeFrogFurniture.BlogSpot.com and Robert Lang’s book “More Shop Drawings...
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Craftsman Dining Room Set #1: Test Drive
The first installment of this blog is here due to LJ blogging technical issues… To make ...
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Back on that Horse - Arts & Crafts Mantle
So, today I did my first woodworking in the shop since I cut my finger off. I installed the spli...
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Craftsman Dining Room Set - In The Beginning...
So, I’ve got my girlfriend’s permission to start working on our new dining room set. ...
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