356 days ago
by patron |
32 comments »
here is a step by step of the sauna door i recently made
http://lumberjocks.com/projects/66801
it has some standard things and some different innovations
i though it might be of some use to someone thinking of building a doorand how the parts go together
first off i only had access to the big box store for suppliesso got 2×6 redwood for the door frame and the casing
here is the casing parts with the stops and room for the insert seals(notice the side rip goes down furt...
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415 days ago
by luv2learn |
14 comments »
This is my first attempt at blogging and I must admit that it has been more frustrating to do than actually building the mug experiment.
A while ago I posted two mug projects on my Lumberjocks projects page. Mugs and More mugs
The steps I took to build all of them was the same. The only thing that changed was the materials that I used. Each of those mugs were built using 24 individual segments or staves. I joined a 7.5 degree bevel on each side of the staves then butt glued them to...
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417 days ago
by rance |
23 comments »
When you need to set the height of your TS blade to half the thickness of your workpiece(regardless of its thickness), try building a teeter totter. A what? Like this:
Get a flat scrap of wood and mark perpendicular lines across equal distance between each other and from one end of the board. This is your teeter totter.
Raise your TS blade higher than you expect to cut and rotate it so one tooth is at top dead center.
Lay that flat board across the blade where the middle ...
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419 days ago
by patron |
23 comments »
i got a PM yesterday from an LJ’erhttp://lumberjocks.com/Doeasking about a pattern i used on a gift box to schummiehttp://lumberjocks.com/Schummie
and as my server is punishing me again for talking with you all(it takes me 20 min to get on LJ’s now)i sent (well tried to) an e-mail with pictures to doe(don’t you know it won’t send)so i thought to do it here as i can load the pics one by one anywayand maybe some others might get some ideas from it_
doe
sorry...
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1228 days ago
by SimonSKL |
16 comments »
After reading many favorable reviews of the Ridgid oscillating sander (model # EB44242) and with a 15% rebate offered by the manufacturer, I finally bought this sander as my Christmas present. The more I use it the more I like the sander. I would have given it a 5 star rating if it has better dust collection capability when the belt sander is used. The dust just got collected at the end of the belt and landed all over the floor. I thought there must be a better way to collect the dust. Here i...
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427 days ago
by Brit |
62 comments »
You know I said at the end of my last post that I’d post a picture of each saw and tell you how I was going to sharpen them and why? Well I lied. :-) The temptation of my restored backsaws, a saw vise and a bundle of saw files was just too much. I had to sharpen a saw, but which one? I thought about it for a while and settled on the little Spear & Jackson 8” Dovetail saw. Remember this one?
I chose it for two reasons:
For a dovetail saw, the depth of cut is quite big at 50mm. ...
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427 days ago
by jeepturner |
10 comments »
So some time ago I posted my Escher cutting boards. I promised a blog on how I made them. I hesitated to write this blog because of the time involved and that my blog will in no way come close to the well laid out blogs done by some of our more talented members.
Of course I never would have attempted this project before I was inspired by this guy: who puts out incredible blogs like this one Martyn took a line drawing from thought to art and I read every line.
Then I also had read anothe...
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432 days ago
by BritBoxmaker |
22 comments »
This blog details how I made the hinges for my latest project, ‘56’ (also now used in ‘42’). In this blog I will be making one hinge, 56mm x 76mm x 6mm. I am using dissimilar woods for contrast. These are, in this case, sycamore and walnut. I work in millimetres. For those of you using inches there are 25.4 mm to the inch. There is a calculator in the pc you are using to read this blog, its not rocket science.
I cut four blanks 56mm x 42mm x 3mm, two of sycamore and...
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469 days ago
by Yuri |
4 comments »
First chuck (see my previous blog) I upgraded from two screws to three T-Bolts.
Still gives me a lot of positioning flexibility from the front where I can check the center and from the sides. Later I realized, any jigs like this should not be removed from the face plate. Re centering A to B takes very, very , very long time
T-Bolts from the face plate view.
More stable Sphere Chuck #3 design. Biggest advantage of this chuck is speed of centering and locking the ball in.
Started wi...
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480 days ago
by Paul Sellers |
126 comments »
Sharpening chisels—forget weaker micro bevels
Controversial though it may seem, and though adopting micro-bevel methods for sharpening chisels may seem to make sense, a freehand convex bevel actually gives exactly the same sharpness as any micro-bevel method, but takes only a fraction of the time to develop. A convex bevel keeps its edge longer, is stronger than most other bevels and needs no special equipment beyond a pair of hands. Establishing the skill to sharpen the convex camber ...
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