| This blog is written by Mark Mazzo | 63 entries so far |
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The Craftsman's Path #63: Sculpted Rocking Chair: More rear Leg Work
Well, after a bit of a hiatus, I’m back working at the Sculpted Rocking Chair. In my most ...
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The Craftsman's Path #62: Do your tools limit your designs?
I was reading a post at Doug Stowe”s blog, Wisdom of the Hands where he was discussing how ...
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The Craftsman's Path #61: Sculpted Rocking Chair - Shaping the Seat
After a quick task with on front legs on the chair, it was finally on to some of the sculpting &#...
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The Craftsman's Path #60: Sculpted Rocking Chair - Leg Joinery
Last time I worked on the seat joinery. This time I complete the Maloof Joint by performing join...
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The Craftsman's Path #59: Sculpted Rocking Chair - Seat Joinery
With the lamination behind me I have moved on to work on the signature joinery of the chair ̵...
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The Craftsman's Path #58: Sculpted Rocking Chair - Laminating the Rockers and Back Braces
Moving on from the work of roughing out components, it was time for some laminations. After maki...
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The Craftsman's Path #57: Sculpted Rocking Chair - Coopered Headrest and Ripping Thin Rocker Strips
After completing the rough out of the seat and rear legs for the chair, I moved on to the headres...
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The Craftsman's Path #56: Sculpted Rocking Chair - Stock Prep, Layout and Rear Legs
I’m finally making the time to do a sculpted rocking chair in the Sam Maloof style. This i...
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The Craftsman's Path #55: Modern Shaker Table - Completion
After the glue up I moved on to sanding and finishing tasks. The details are covered in my lates...
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The Craftsman's Path #54: Modern Shaker Table - String Inlay and Glue Up
I moved on to milling and installing the string inlay on the table before gluing it up and readyi...
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The Craftsman's Path #53: Exposing the Jointer...
With a little bit of white chalk, I exposed my jointer today. The whole sordid tale is covered in...
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The Craftsman's Path #52: Modern Shaker Table - Making the Aprons
With the tapered legs complete, I moved on to the arched aprons. There’s a slight complica...
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The Craftsman's Path #51: Modern Shaker Table - Making the Top
With the legs complete I moved on to milling and gluing up the stock for the table top. I also u...
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The Craftsman's Path #50: Modern Shaker Table - Making the Tapered Legs
With the rough stock for this table acclimated to my shop for a week or so, I started this projec...
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The Craftsman's Path #49: Modern Saker Table - The Design Process
Deviating from more traditional pieces, I was asked to design and build a table with more modern ...
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The Craftsman's Path #48: Three Pillars of Design - Part 3 Proportion
Continuing the series with Graham Blackburn’s third pillar of design: Proportion. This new...
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The Craftsman's Path #47: THree Pillars of Design - Part 2 Construction
Building on the previous post in this series, it’s time to explore Graham Blackburn’s second pill...
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The Craftsman's Path #46: Three Pillars of Design - Part 1 Function
Building on the information that I gleaned from the Graham Blackburn workshop that I attended, I ...
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The Craftsman's Path #45: Graham Blackburn Lecture
This weekend marked the opening of my woodworking club’s season. Our first guest speaker w...
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The Craftsman's Path #44: Using the Band Saw and Jigsaw for Rough Stock Prep
Previously, I wrote about the merits of using rough stock in your woodworking. In that post I dis...
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The Craftsman's Path #43: Moving the target in design
Recently, I was watching Neil Lamens’ interview (Part 1 and Part 2) with Wendell Castle. Neil did...
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The Craftsman's Path #42: Turned Walnut Bowl
I don’t consider myself an accomplished turner…yet. Though, I’m working on it! I like to turn and...
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The Craftsman's Path #41: Dreadnought Guitar - Installing the binding and purfling
Now that the channels have been routed it was time to install the binding along the back and top ...
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The Craftsman's Path #40: In design simple is elegant
With some impetus from a post that Chuck Bender (acanthuscarver) recently wrote, I discussed some...
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The Craftsman's Path #39: Dreadnought Guitar - Routing channels for binding and purfling
Well, I just got the body together – so, what else would I do but take a router to it ??! ...
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The Craftsman's Path #38: Dreadnought Guitar - Enclosing the body
It was finally time to close up the body of the guitar. Yet another fun clamping operation.Thing...
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The Craftsman's Path #37: Dreadnought Guitar - Attaching the top
Interesting clamping challenges abound in this project. In the picture you can see the solution ...
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The Craftsman's Path #36: Dreadnaught Guitar: Notching the sides for the top braces
Finally getting back to the guitar project…I’ve done some more work toward bringing t...
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The Craftsman's Path #35: Queen Anne Side Table - Completed finish and hardware
After waiting a while for the finish to cure and a brief hiatus out of town, the Queen Anne Side ...
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The Craftsman's Path #34: Dreadnought Guitar - Bracing the top
There was more bracing work to do on the guitar. This time a more complex operation on the under...
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The Craftsman's Path #33: Dreadnought Guitar - Adding the back braces
I spent some more time on the guitar project. This time adding the bracing to the back plate. D...
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The Craftsman's Path #32: Dreadnought Guitar - Sanding the kerfed linings and installing the rosette
This weekend I took the next steps in the guitar project. I posted about an interesting process ...
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The Craftsman's Path #31: Dreadnought Guitar - Assembling the sides and kerfed linings
Well, I’ve officially started down the road of lutherie! The guitar project has started an...
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The Craftsman's Path #30: Looking ahead - How about lutherie?
Things are winding down on the Queen Anne Side Table project (more tom come on that in a future p...
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The Craftsman's Path #29: Queen Anne Side Table - Contemplating the finish
With most of the construction done it was time for detailing and contemplating how to finish the ...
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The Craftsman's Path #28: The loss of a teacher
Sometimes the best teachers are not who you might imagine they would be and sometimes the best le...
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The Craftsman's Path #27: Queen Anne Side Table - Dovetailing the drawer
With the table carcase complete it was time to build and dovetail the drawer. I have a fairly lo...
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The Craftsman's Path #26: Queen Anne Side Table - Glue up and drawer runner assembly
With the joinery completed on the table I set out to pull all of the pieces together. In this po...
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The Craftsman's Path #25: Queen Anne Side Table - Dovetailed top rail and scroll work
Well, after a brief diversion with the new (old) smoothing plane, I have been back to work on the...
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The Craftsman's Path #24: Thomas Pafk Lecture
I had the opportunity to listen to a lecture by Thomas Pafk – a Roycroft Master Artisan abo...
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The Craftsman's Path #23: In search of a smoothing plane
After contemplating adding a smoothing plane to my shop for quite some time, I finally took the p...
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The Craftsman's Path #22: Queen Anne Side Table - Cutting tenons on the aprons
Well, after milling the stock and making a new tenoning jig for the table saw I was ready to cut ...
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The Craftsman's Path #21: Queen Anne Side Table - Leg mortises, knee blocks and posts
I’ve been progressing on the legs for the Queen Anne Side Table. In my last post, I had shaped th...
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The Craftsman's Path #20: Queen Anne Side Table - More leg shaping
I was out of town last weekend for a family wedding so, progress on the table was stalled a bit. ...
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The Craftsman's Path #19: Queen Anne Side Table - Turning and shaping the feet
After band sawing the legs to rough shape in my last post, the next steps in developing the legs ...
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The Craftsman's Path #18: Queen Anne Side Table - Roughing out the legs
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I was recently inspired to build a period reproduction piece...
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The Craftsman's Path #17: Gene Landon lecture
I had the opportunity to hear a talk given by Gene Landon recently. If you don’t know Gene...
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The Craftsman's Path #16: Twin boxes in Cherry, Maple and Walnut
Not nearly as much time in the shop as I would like lately. I did however, get a bit of time in ...
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The Craftsman's Path #15: The legacy of one woodworker
I recently went to a sale for a wood shop that was being sold off. What I came home with was a b...
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The Craftsman's Path #14: An evening with Kelly Mehler
The woodworking club that I belong to hosted Kelly Mehler for a lecture last night and a demonstr...
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The Craftsman's Path #13: Asian/Arts and Crafts inspired table
I’ve completed the table based on a design that I blogged about in a previous post. I talk...
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The Craftsman's Path #12: The joy of a well tuned hand plane
I spent some time in the shop this past weekend working on a couple of final tasks for a new tabl...
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The Craftsman's Path #11: Sam Maloof on design
I’ve recently been doing some reading on various designers in search of guidance and inspir...
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The Craftsman's Path #10: Super-simple drill press table upgrade
Sometimes after you complete a task, you wonder why you procrastinated so long to do it. I had a...
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The Craftsman's Path #9: The benefits of rough lumber for design and building
I was out this weekend at a friend’s place where some logging is being done (I’ll be ...
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The Craftsman's Path #8: Loose Tenon Joinery - A budget alternative to the Festool Domino
Given all of the buzz about the new Festool Domino, I thought that I’d share a technique th...
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The Craftsman's Path #7: Guidelines for good design
I’ve added a post to my blog on some techniques and guidelines for developing a good furnit...
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The Craftsman's Path #6: Improving your drawing skills for design
I’ve posted a new entry on my blog regarding ways to improve your drawing skills in order t...
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The Craftsman's Path #5: Workshop cleanup and in praise of the workbench
Weekend activities and some praise for the unsung shop workhorse. Click here for the post. Than...
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The Craftsman's Path #4: It's woodworking season!
Tis the season for sawdust! Click here for the post. Thanks for reading!
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The Craftsman's Path #3: Furniture design starts with a sketch
This post talks about the basic process I go through for every furniture design project. Click h...
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The Craftsman's Path #2: Woodworking choices: hand or power?
This post is a pragmatic look at the choices between hand a power tool woodworking. Click here f...
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The Craftsman's Path #1: An introduction
Since I already blog at my own domain I did not want to duplicate all of that content here at Lum...
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