| This blog is written by Dan Lyke | 53 entries so far |
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Wooden Boat Challenge: Champions 3 years running
I mentioned winning the 2011 Bodega Bay Fisherman's Festival Wooden Boat Challenge, and fo...
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Freehand Router Inlay
When Daniel and I made the guitar, we used the Festool MFS adjustable rectangle router template (...
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A Guitar for Daniel #8: Done. For now.
Daniel came back for another visit and said “yeah, it sounds really off at the 12th fre...
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A Guitar for Daniel #7: Playable!
Daniel wanted to get back to his friends pretty badly, so last night we got the electronics ...
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A Guitar for Daniel #6: Trying to not rush
Daniel’s missing his friends and wants to head home, so while I’m trying to get him t...
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A Guitar for Daniel #5: The first 90% of the project...
...takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the project takes an additional 90% of the time. S...
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A Guitar for Daniel #4: Wishful thinking and home stretches
I totally screwed up the fret board, so we had to make a new one. This time we figured out how to...
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A Guitar for Daniel #3: Just got real
On the router table, cleaned up the face of the peghead and finished the rest of the truss r...
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A Guitar for Daniel #2: Physical manifestations of thinking things through
This project has a huge mix of frustration and reward because I’m trying to be a facilitato...
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A Guitar for Daniel #1: Okay, you finished high school, now the learning starts...
One of Charlene’s friends from a college years ago has two kids who’ve recently gradu...
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Retracting clamp rack
The new shop is coming together, but as we try to figure out where everything goes we’re re...
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Summer Breeze Sailboat #5: Maiden Voyage
And at some point you take a deep breath and say “I’ve figured out everything I can o...
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Summer Breeze Sailboat #4: Rigging test fit
Charlene painted the boat this week. Today it was hotter than the hinges of Hades, but I went out...
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Summer Breeze Sailboat #3: Closing in
Been 13 days since my last update, which means there’s lots o’ progress to report! I ...
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Summer Breeze Sailboat #2: The build begins
Blessed are the queue jumpers, for they fill a 3 day weekend and leave our hands covered in glue:...
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2012 Bodega Bay Fish Fest Wooden Boat Challenge
3 hours. 2 sheets of cheap CDX 3/8” plywood, 10 1×2s, 2 2×2s, a sheet of plastic,...
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Summer Breeze Sailboat #1: Plotting and strategizing
On the one hand, you could suggest that I’ve been inspired by Napaman's Stevenson Weekender...
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Building my workshop
It’s not done. I still have a few pieces of siding to run. I need to caulk the siding and t...
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Crankin' on my workshop
Looked here and saw that it’s been 196 days since my last blog entry on LumberJocks, so I f...
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My first heart dovetail.
Jus’ playin with wood: “Honey, I’m gonna step outside and do a joint.” ...
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2011 Bodega Bay Boat Building Competition
I’m a member of the awesome Sonoma County Woodworkers Association. Every time I go to a mee...
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Kitchen Cabinets #8: Doors in!
Still need to do the drawer fronts, but the doors are in! And they are kinda snazzy, if I do say ...
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Baking Soda and Vinegar bottle rocket launcher
The 3rd grade boy across the street is pretty smart, and his mom is doing her best to make sure h...
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Wood Gloat #1: From Luthier's Mercantile International's scrap pile
This evening’s Sonoma County Woodworkers Association meeting was at Luthier's Mercantil...
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Trebuchets for Xmas #2: Video
We had a little tuning session on the sidewalk in front of our house this morning:
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Trebuchets for Xmas #1: Weapons of Mouse Destruction
Just finished preliminary assembly on 4 trebuchets to hand out for the Holidays to various kids ...
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Fold Down Train Layout #1: Prototype/Interim around the tree (with pix)
Just to give the payoff early, here’s a video, no sound, skip to the last third if you want...
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Equipping the office #1: Laminated curved edges: A temporary shelf
It’s going to be a year or more before I can start working on the real built-ins for the of...
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Kitchen Cabinets #7: Whoops
With Yardbirds going out of business, I bought a bunch of stuff to run some new electrical (altho...
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Kitchen Cabinets #6: Pot Drawers
No, “pot drawers” not a reference to where I might keep my stash. The 352 hole...
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Kitchen Cabinets #5: 352 holes
I was telling people that it was over 400 holes, but though the drawers are about 27×22...
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Kitchen Cabinets #4: How I cut my shelf pins
For the cabinets, I wanted movable shelves. I was told that the Euro style round pins “look...
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Kitchen Cabinets #3: Pantry shelves temporarily in place
This should really probably go over at Home Refurbers, but I started this series here, so I’...
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Kitchen Cabinets #2: Working on a countertop
This weekend’s goal is getting the cabinet beside the stove to at least have a usable c...
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Kitchen Cabinets #1: Kitchen cabinet doors
I debated whether I should put this entry here or over at HomeRefurbers, but that site reall...
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More excuses for not woodworking
Shortly after that last entry with the second prototype cabinet door, I was pulling 180°s off...
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Back in action, maybe
Been a long time since my last entry over here. I’ve been busy with various things, inclu...
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A work table for the back yard
Here’s the result of my backing off from doing through tenons after injuring my wris...
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Ouch: Or why a drill with more torque isn't necessarily good
Built a utility table for the back shed today, used a 6’ length of bowling alley, 6×4 ...
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A chair for my office #3: Finished, with reservations
Got a client who’s being a little slow this morning, so I took the time to whip together a ...
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A chair for my office #2: Got the backslats in
Nothing terribly profound to say here, just working through and learning a lot, in between a...
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A chair for my office #1: First construction photos
Sunday night we were going to start on the bathroom vanity, but Charlene didn’t feel ...
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A cutting board
This is a cutting board. It’s not terribly flat. The boards which make it up are all ...
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Just keepin' busy
It’s been 198 days since my last post here. I’ve been pumping out entries on my other...
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Finding out about a desk
My sweety procured a desk, under the condition that we figure out how to remove it from the house...
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Explaining an absence
I had hopes of perhaps pulling out a Thorsen table entry. Certainly I didn’t want to be a d...
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My First Rocking Horse #4: Delivery
When my nephew was asked if he wanted to sit on the horse, he promptly sat down on the deck ...
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My First Rocking Horse #3: Finished it!
Finished the rocking horse! Or at least declared it done… More rambling prose and pi...
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One foot in front of the other
For some reason the psychic load of tax season always wears on me. It shouldn’t, I just nee...
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My First Rocking Horse #2: Just a little horse
“We were somewhere around Lagunitas, on the edge of the redwoods, when the screws began to ...
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My First Rocking Horse #1: Sawdust everywhere
While I’ve been involved in the lives and upbringing of several kids (a few of whom are now...
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Carving envy
I’m pretty gifted. I probably say that with some conceit, because I’m pretty conceite...
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Finding an identity...
I’ve been “blogging” for 9 years. I put “blogging” in quotes, becau...
