| This blog is written by YorkshireStewart | 36 entries so far |
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My first lap steel guitar
This dirty, heavy unidentified board had been kicking around for some years.. ..imagine my...
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Acoustic Guitar #10: Mostly fretboard
Fine tuning the tail veneer & cutting dinky little mitres on the purflings. A nice piece o...
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Acoustic Guitar #9: Purflings and Bindings
I did say that things would slow down! This stage, for me, has been the most difficult so far....
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Acoustic Guitar #8: Bit of this; bit of that.
Postings will slow down somewhat now. This is what I did today. On the router table, trimmed ...
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Acoustic Guitar #7: Attaching the back
Take a long look at your sculpture Stewart; it’s the last you will see of it! Spread...
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Acoustic Guitar #6: Fitting the neck; gluing on the soundboard
It’s difficult to see what’s going on here. this is a plywood ca...
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Acoustic Guitar #5: Some initial assembly. Head and tail blocks
..so that’s what the kerfing strips do! Ah yes, a bit of old mantle piece; t...
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Acoustic Guitar #4: The neck
A nice piece of mahogany I’ve been saving for a rainy day.. ...
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Acoustic Guitar #3: Kerfing strips.
“Why bother to make them? They’re cheap enough!” “Yes, but, it’...
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Acoustic Guitar #2: The back and ribs.
For this, my first effort, (that suggests there’ll be at least a second!) I’m using s...
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Acoustic Guitar #1: The soundboard and rosette.
Time, just now, doesn’t allow many words to describe this process. It’s my first att...
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Auction antique tools success
I popped into the viewing for an auction of assorted paraphernalia last week and left a bid on a ...
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My way with buttons
Following my project posting here, I had a couple of enquiries as to how I do it. I hope the fol...
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Car-boot sale treasures #3: One man's boat anchor... Stanley 55 find.
It’s not that we needed anything, or, indeed have room for much in our little house and...
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Designing furniture the traditional way - chairs - green woodworking
I thought the following article in the Daily Telegraph (UK) was worth a read.. http://www.telegra...
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Car-boot sale treasures #2: Yorkshire tool gloat
It’s not as if I don’t have planes, but confronted by these two (A Stanley #4 and a R...
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Mystery tools; non-woodworking
Here’s a couple of pictures of just a few from a box of tools that have just been donated t...
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Another Roman plane #1: Taking shape
In the first couple of centuries or so A.D, The Germani tribe was dominant in northern Denmark. ...
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A Roman Plane - my 21st century re-creation #4: Towards the first shaving..
Having finally fitted the cross-pin and riveted the end over, I could do a trial assembly of the ...
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A Roman Plane - my 21st century re-creation #3: bringing it all together
I sacrificed a 1½” chisel to make the plane iron. Well, some form of sacrifice seemed appropriat...
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A Roman Plane - my 21st century re-creation #2: Finishing the plane body
Ivory proved difficult to source <g>, so I chose a piece of sycamore that was to hand. I thou...
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A Roman Plane - my 21st century re-creation #1: Preparing some steelwork
It must be about four years since I first had a vague idea of reproducing this Roman plane from a...
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Car-boot sale treasures #1: Quite an assortment - 29 May 2008
This is today’s little bag of treasures. You might just make out the ticket prices. ...
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Flea market treasure
The “Car Boot Sale” season will soon be upon us here. Although ‘Car Boot’...
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Thicknessing drum sander - shop made
I’ve had a fancy for a thicknessing sander but a 10-20 inch model costs the equivalent of $...
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2,000 tons of timber hits West Sussex beaches
From a Worthing Herald report ”A MASSIVE clean-up operation is underway after 2,000 tons...
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Not Just Any Box #4: ..finishing touches.
Here are one or two pictures of the dovetail joints that hold the two inner trays together. It&#...
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Not Just Any Box #3: towards the finish...
As I wrote earlier, I’d jointed the box corners using the Lock Mitre Router Bit in the router tab...
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Not Just Any Box #2: It all hinges on these..
I have a love affair with wooden hinges and this challenge gave me the opportunity to go one ste...
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Not Just Any Box #1: Preparing the Way
I’d been living with this board of burr / burl or pippy oak in the workshop for five or six years...
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The multi-purposed 2x4 Winter 2008 #3: The last lap
An intensive day. I was determined to complete the job today, so I was out there bright and earl...
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The multi-purposed 2x4 Winter 2008 #2: A bit of gluing. A bit of shaping.
Today, it’s some work on the back bow or arm of the chair as well as the seat itself. I’m starti...
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The multi-purposed 2x4 Winter 2008 #1: Roughing it out.
I normally spend very little time in my workshop in the winter months. The build-up to Christmas...
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A Mystery Tool - Christmas puzzle.
I displayed some pictures of a tool / implement on www.flickr.com just over a year ago to try and...
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Following in Bob#2's footsteps - Finger jointing jig
I only just came across Bob#2’s box joint jig two days ago and just had to hastily knock on...
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A Roman Plane
I just wanted to share this lovely Roman Plane with interested Lumberjocks & suddenly I’...
