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• methods of work #42: Cutting dovetails using a bow saw part 1 - 08-11-2014 04:52 PM | 4 comments

• Machine mods, oddities, and fix-ups #17: SCMI stroke sander demo - 08-09-2014 05:45 PM | 0 comments

• methods of work #41: Mockup of continuous arm chair - 07-15-2014 12:16 AM | 0 comments

• methods of work #40: More Chinese chair mockups - 07-08-2014 01:35 AM | 4 comments

  The end grain of the crest rail had to be carefully marked and carved/planed to fit the squared ...

• methods of work #39: Chinese influenced chair mockup - 07-05-2014 03:25 AM | 3 comments

  Something I am playing around with.

• methods of work #38: Another test of steambending - 07-01-2014 02:40 AM | 8 comments

  Testing limits. This 1” thick by 4” wide board was really difficult for me to pull ar...

• methods of work #37: Modernist chair - riffing on a vocabulary of shapes - 06-28-2014 01:22 AM | 1 comment

  This is turning out as an interesting design. I am personally not that modernist leaning in my ta...

• methods of work #36: Ebonizing an oak/ash chair - 06-23-2014 10:10 PM | 4 comments

  Ebonizing the chair. There were some surface checks in the back and flaws in the materials I used...

• methods of work #35: Wedging through tenons - 06-21-2014 10:57 PM | 0 comments

  Wedges are cut on a band saw jig which is simply a piece of plywood with a notch cut out which ru...

• methods of work #34: 2 curvy dining chair prototypes - 06-20-2014 03:12 AM | 14 comments

  Here’s the recent chair prototype on the right shown in relation an older prototype where I used ...

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