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Electronics Workbench #2: Sketchup Model
Starting with the laminate countertop idea, I did some work on Sketchup to get an idea of what I ...
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Electronics Workbench #1: Starting Thoughts
I like to do small electronics projects. I’ve been using a 4’ long plastic table and ...
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My workshop #4: Generic Toolcart in Sketchup
Overall view: Verticals view: Shelves view: Horizontals view from top: ...
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My workshop #3: Whole Basement Dust Removal System
Here’s a whole basement air cleaner/dust extractions system in Sketchup. The system takes ...
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Nightstand for CPAP Machine #6: Playing with Sketchup "Scenes" feature
3D Perspective view: Left side view: Right side view: Kickboards view: Drawers view: ...
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Nightstand for CPAP Machine #5: Tweeking the Sketchup Model
Keep having this annoying Sketchup problem. Sometimes I can make an object on a face and it doesn...
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Nightstand for CPAP Machine #4: Cut wood and fingers - Trip to ER
Good news is I still have all my fingers. Had a bad kickback from cutting the material. Crunch...
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Nightstand for CPAP Machine #3: Material cut sheet - Plywood for Two
I tried using cutlist for sketchup and it didn’t make great choices so I flattened out the ...
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Nightstand for CPAP Machine #2: Improved material usage
I did some changes to try and get most of the pieces for two nightstands from one sheet of Oak pl...
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Nightstand for CPAP Machine #1: Sketchup Model
I have a CPAP machine for OSA and my nightstand doesn’t have enough room for the machine an...
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Horizontal File Cabinet for drawings #2: Drawers installed and finishing done
Finally finished this project. Turned out pretty good in spite of the table saw at work being ...
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B Sized Drawing In-box
I do a lot of drawing approvals at work and have been using the top of a copier box for a long ti...
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Arts & Crafts - Living room tables #3: Legs and support assembled and glued up
I assembled the legs & supports for the table. It’s all glued up. It’s more wobbl...
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Cheap Kitchen Table #3: Improved leg design
You spoke and I listened. We made corner blocks for the legs so that they should be plenty strong...
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Cheap Kitchen Table #2: Design for Legs of Cheap Kitchen Table
My kitchen table is cheap, really cheap. But it looks decent. So far it’s a plastic table w...
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Arts & Crafts - Living room tables #2: Coffee table - mostly done
My 16-year old son built this Arts and Crafts coffee table almost completely on his own. He built...
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Arts & Crafts - Living room tables #1: The plans
Found a set of plans at Rockler for a three piece Arts & Crafts living room table set. Bou...
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Trip to Stickley Museum - Syracuse, NY
Some pics from my trip to the Stickley Museum in Syracuse, NY.
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My workshop #2: Dust Collector thanks to Lumberjocks contributors
Made one of the Cyclone Dust Collectors based on a couple of designs here and here plus a couple ...
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Horizontal File Cabinet for drawings #1: Cabinet built
I’ve been working on this project for a while. It’s a horizontal file cabinet for B s...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #13: Finally finished
Done! First dovetails using my HF dovetail jig, Fits videos perfectly.
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #12: Slow but steady progress - Finishing
Bought Mission Style drawer pulls at Rockler. They had some Stickley pulls that I really liked bu...
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Dado Jig #4: Happy with jig - good results
Used the new dado jig to make my Stickley Inspired Entertainment Center. It worked great. ...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #18: Table with tool
Got the table more or less done. Still need to add handles and drill the holes to hold the tool i...
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Shelf pin template $0.69
This might not be the world’s cheapest template, but it’s got to be pretty nearly the...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #11: Stain Before Glue
Stained this unit before gluing and I had much better results than I did with the stain when we ...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #10: First finish coat - Spar Urethane
I decided to go with spar urethane (Helmsman satin by Minwax) as the protective finish. I read so...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #9: Assembly of the unit
Did the basic shell assembly yesterday and stained it (Minwax 215 Red Oak). Waiting on stain to d...
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Dado Jig #3: Sketchup Model for Dado Jig
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Dado Jig #2: Glue-up of Jig
Finally did the cuts for the Dado Jig. Ripped down two 3/4” x 3/4” pieces of Oak as t...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #8: Sketchup model for SIEU
I made this Sketchup Model of the Stickley Inspired Entertainment Center. I think it turne...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #12: Sled done - working well
I got the sled done and it works well. Used Aluminum bar stock (see earlier) to match the inconve...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #17: Dial Indicator Permanently mounted
I got the dial indicator mounted and it works good. A 10 mil movement isn’t much on the kno...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #16: Better Dial Indicator Mounting
The gooseneck mounting on the dial indicator is just way too painful. I need something that is fl...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #15: Added depth gauge
I went to Harbor Freight and bought the clamping dial indicator with vice grips and gooseneck ext...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #14: Arts & Crafts Picture Frame - Very Rough
Made my first project using the new Mortising Machine. It’s a rough Arts and Crafts style p...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #13: Accuracy - Maybe Just a Crazy Idea
Can I add a dial indicator to the machine that tells the depth of the fence? That way I could ...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #12: Quick and Dirty Tenon Cutting Jig
Wow, that tenon was really nasty and a whole lot of work. I wanted to build a fancy jig like the ...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #11: First square holes
I grabbed a piece if wood. It happened to be plywood and punctured a couple of holes. Pretty cool...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #10: Assembling the mortising machine
Most reviews of the assembly complain about how hard it is to get the cylinder compressed. I thin...
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My workshop #1: Very messy
Can we start a competition for the messiest workshop? I think I’ve got a winner. I have no ...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #11: Sled and a Tenon jig oops
Assembled more of the sled. Waiting on glue to dry for the back fence and supports. ...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #10: It's Hip to be Square
Fence glued and clamped. Squared fence to blade. Stop block… T-track &...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #9: Notional Tenon Jig for Table Saw
One of my objectives in making the table saw sled is to mount a tenon jig to the sled. I want to ...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #8: Table Saw Sled
I cut the wood for the cross-cut sled. I’m basing this on the woodworking for mere mortals ...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #7: Stop the madness - track "solved"
I’ve been making this way too hard. I am going to cull the best ideas from this thread and ...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #6: JB Weld - not so much
Tried the jb weld on the two Aluminum bars. Didn’t hold. Scuffed surface. Still didn’...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #5: More on the Throat Plate and a "Duh!"
OK, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. Nowhere near it. But it did occur to me that the...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #4: Trading off two designs
I’m trading off two designs for miter slot bars. The stock table and standard miter gauge l...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #3: Bars are in
The aluminum bar stock arrived and I got a big surprise. The 5/8” wide piece fit snugly ...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #2: Throat Plate pains
The standard throat is made so that the blade can be in any angle and not hit the plate. Trouble ...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #9: Casters still.. Fail
Why, why is this so hard? Went and got casters yesterday. They were the right height, but not ...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #8: Those Darn Casters
Finally picked up the casters. Design called for 4” casters and that’s what I got. Th...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #31: Cushions for the footstool
HD has seat cushions which fit the footstool pretty well.
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Tenon Jig for a cheapo Craftsman Table Saw #3: Squaring up the fence to the blade
This couldn’t be simpler. Took me longer to figure out how to get the new long handled hex ...
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Tenon Jig for a cheapo Craftsman Table Saw #2: Squaring up the table
The User Manual has a procedure for squaring up the blade to the miter slot. It also has a method...
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Tenon Jig for a cheapo Craftsman Table Saw #1: Initial thoughts
I recently bought a really nice mortising machine. Spent more on the tool than anything other tha...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #7: Missing Casters
Wrote myself a note on my ipod touch. Had three things on the list. Put the ipod in my pocket whe...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #6: This thing is heavy
If you wonder why I am putting this unit on a dedicated it’s because this thing is heavy. R...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #5: Base [mostly] done
Took a trip to Home Depot checking out their steel bar stock (none was 5/8” wide unfortunat...
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Craftsman Table Saw 28462 #1: Craftsman Table Saw Miter
Like many people my first big shop tool was a table saw. Not knowing any better I bought a Sears ...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #4: Mortise Table Design
I quickly modified my Router Table Design to lower the top by 1.75”. I also provided for a ...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #3: The Manual On-line
I like to grab a PDF copy of the manual for anything I own. I couldn’t find this manual wit...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #2: Measuring the footprint of the unit and the elevation
Took some approximate measurements of the base and height of the table. Looks like about 14...
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Delta Mortiser 14-651 #1: My new tool
My Delta Mortising Machine, the 14-651, arrived a couple of days ago. I got it into the house by ...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #30: Footstool legs
Here’s my thought for what the side view of the footstill should be: Here’s ho...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #29: Rethinking the footstools
I am not thrilled with the footstools. Seems like too much of an afterthought. I would like to ha...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #28: Footstools in the Fancy room
The legs on these footstool are really tiny. I split two of them even with countersinks. Think I&...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #27: Cushions! Ahh... So nice...
Bought a set of outdoor cushions for the Morris Chairs. Regardless of whether or not the chairs e...
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Cheap Kitchen Table #1: Space - deal with it
I had a small apartment with six kids and no dining room to put a table in it. I bought one of th...
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Trip to Craftsman Farms
Took advantage of a drive back from New York to stop at Craftsman Farms. I was with anothe...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #26: First big mistake and assembling the legs
My first big mistake was not realizing that the short and long parts don’t meet at same way...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #25: A Footstool
The book didn’t have plans for a footstool, but there are plans here. With my new Drill Pre...
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Dado Jig #1: Picking a design
There are a lot of dado jig designs out there. They’ve all got some good features. I’...
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Harbor Freight Dovertail Jig
Got this Dovetail Jig at Harbor Freight in Harrisburg (PA). They don’t have it at my Pittsb...
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Harbor Freight run...
Took a Harbor Freight run in Hempstead, NY and in Harrisburg, PA. Bought a big pile of stuff. ...
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More post storage
The post in my shop is near the drill press station. If you are like me you spend more time looki...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #7: Replanning...
After building the XBox-360 Entertainment Center I have some changes to this design. The height i...
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Minor shop upgrade - tool hangers
I’m not the neatest guy at putting away stuff, but my 15-year old son make me look like a &...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #24: More thoughts on finishing
I know I need to do something to finish these chairs sooner rather than later. The finish migh...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #23: Don't Do What I Do
Too often I just jump in and don’t do a test. Well this was one of those times. I figured I...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #22: Did I mention - this chair is big
Yes, it is a big chair. Important to me since I am a big guy. I like a big comfy chair. That̵...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #21: Plugging a million holes
Ok, there weren’t really a million holes, maybe just a hundred or so. A couple of folks ear...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #20: What makes it a Morris Chair?
The Morris Chair is said to have been the first recliner. The original Lazy-boy. This version of ...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #19: Attaching the back
We learned a couple of lessons when we attached the back. #1 – The 45 degree angle shown...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #18: Fixed the crown under the arm
My 15-year old fixed the crown under the arms of the chair using his circular saw. He’s rea...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #6: Dado plans
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Outdoor Morris Chair #17: Chair back and brads
Put together the chair backs. Originally wanted to use my pneumatic brad gun just to hold the pie...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #5: Cut List
Made the cut lists using EXCEL. Here’s the amount of veneer edge banding that should be ...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #4: Materials List
The material will be Red Oak plywood available at Lowes Depot. Since nearly all of the widths...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #16: Test fitting the back
The back, as the book notes, is different than the one in the picture. It’s got even slats ...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #15: Fixing the crown under the arm
Due to my earlier mistake (wrong direction for rear arm support) I had to do some trimming. This ...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #14: Chair slats installed
Got the chair slats installed. Only one screw “missed”. Not bad out of 12 screws. Pic...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #13: Please be gentle - it's my first time (with the router)
Did my first router cuts ever. Really want to show the kid that I can do something when he’...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #3: QCAD Screenshot
Not sure what other people are doing for CAD programs. From what I’ve read, a lot of people...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #2: Design ideas - Plan
Spent time thinking about what I want in an Entertainment Center. The Stickley designs are 63 in ...
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Stickley inspired Entertainment Center #1: Thinking about this weekend
After [mostly] finishing our XBOX 360 entertainment unit my son and I have been thinking about wh...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #12: This chair is big
This chair really is big. Very wide. 24+inches wide in fact. .Here’s me sitting on it. Note...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #11: Seat slats and the router
The seat slats need to be rounded over with a router to remove the sharp edges. As the author say...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #10: Problematic side and back supports
One thing is true in many things. Tolerances accumulate. The side supports for this chair requ...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #9: Added side slats and created a lot of blocks
I think I am done for the day. I got the side slats on the two chairs. No big tricks there...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #8: Attaching the front and rear stretcher
Added the front and rear stretchers. Used the two pieces of cedar for the back since it won’...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #7: Added upper side and trying to fix error
I added the upper sides. They are pretty tricky since you have to do a long cross-cut. The book r...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #6: Bottom sides done
Got the bottom sides done. The legs stand square and look pretty good. Tricky part is alternating...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #5: Really stupid mistake
Put together all of the legs. I noticed I made a really stupid mistake. Hard to fix now, ...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #4: Fine tuning wood plugs
I’m sure someone out there really knows how to do this right, but I really struggle with wo...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #3: First leg done... Playing with jigs
Got the first leg together. It’s square to the ground so I must have done something right. ...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #2: Cuts done
Finished the cuts yesterday. Realized that I was still one stick of wood short. Found a piece of ...
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Outdoor Morris Chair #1: Gathering the materials
Making Mr Thiel’s Outdoor Morris Chair from his excellent book (pic from his BLOG here).. ...
