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| 30 days ago |
Creating compound curves with plywood? - 18 replies How would you create a compound curve in plywood? Say for this kind of hood? http://www.houzz.com/projects/193438/Broad-Cove Granted, the one shown is probably copper, but I’d like to make one in wood, and wonder how you can get that compound curve with plywood? Any ideas how one would go about creating this? |
| 49 days ago |
Ouch. Home Depot to pay $8 million fine - 0 replies Home Depot kept selling banned finishes (containing VOCs) in California even after the warning, and is now supposed to pay an $8 million fine. That’s gotta sting even for HD. http://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/news/woodworking-industry-news/Home-Depot-to-Pay-8M-Fine-for-Selling-Banned-Wood-xxxFinishes-205162131.html |
| 54 days ago |
Flourish - Pyro On A Plate - 4 replies I took a pyrography class with Cynthia Gibson a couple months back. I enjoyed it immensely. You know the drill: smoke, fire, good friends, good food, and art!I brought this plate but didn’t get the chance to work on it at the time. I had already designed the repeating pattern, but I hadn’t transferred it to the plate until a couple ... |
| 111 days ago |
You can figure out that cool project, post pictures, but can't figure out how to rotate them? - 5 replies So you’re smart enough to figure out how to make that cool project, sign up for LJ, and post pictures… But you can’t figure out how to rotate the picture before posting it? Really? It’s really simple. Freeware applications abound. Windoze even lets you do it now. I don’t get why you’d take all the tro... |
| 119 days ago |
Is it Art? Or bland tasteless CNC carving? - 116 replies After seeing some comments here about CNC carving, I just couldn’t help myself and had to ask this question: Is this door art, or bland tasteless CNC carving? It took me a couple of weeks to design, tweak, apply toolpaths, run trials, then re-design, tweak some more, and finally output and wait 6 hours while this carved out. Then it had... |
| 121 days ago |
Cabinet Makers: make Euro-hinged cabinet look vintage with barrel hinge plates - 3 replies Cabinet Makers: Make your inset Euro-hinged cabinet look vintage with these false barrel hinge plates. Have all the convenience of a Euro-hinge without the hassle of the barrel hinge. I have a whole case of false barrel hinges for inset euro-hinged doors. There are 8 boxes to the case, 24 pairs per box, 192 pairs total. (Plus a few loose ones... |
| 151 days ago |
Need point and shoot camera recommendation. And two reviews. - 7 replies I’m looking for recommendations on a point and shoot camera. I’d like one with good macro focus and light/white balance metering qualities. I primarily use a camera for taking stills of woodturning projects. That’s not to say I wouldn’t like one that would work well for landscape, vacation, and social occasions. And one t... |
| 166 days ago |
Gnomes - thanks Mike Pounders! - 0 replies Thanks to Mike Pounders for posting his 5 minute Gnome Tutorial! I got started on these right after he posted it, and I’ve enjoyed making every single one of these. I even sold my first carving today! It was the viking gnome that was detailed with my new woodburner!These are about 2 inches high and made from Alder, scraps of which are plen... |
| 166 days ago |
Gnomes - thanks Mike Pounders! - 6 replies Thanks to Mike Pounders for posting his 5 minute Gnome Tutorial! I got started on these right after he posted it, and I’ve enjoyed making every single one of these. I even sold my first carving today! It was the viking gnome that was detailed with my new woodburner!These are about 2 inches high and made from Alder, scraps of which are plen... |
