66 minutes ago
by littlecope |
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Toward the end of April, Debbie and I finally got the apartment we were looking for, and on the first of May began the move.We left my Aunt’s Home in the hills of Henniker and moved to our lovely State Capitol, Concord, New Hampshire. It took twenty trips in the ‘Yota, two trips with a U-Haul, and nine days (and it rained all nine days!), but the move was finally made…So we’ve been pretty busy, trying to make order out of the shambles of moving, and generally getting a...
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7 hours ago
by oldretiredjim |
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If you were born after 1975 this is probably of no interest. After more than 15 years I finally got my record collection back. Negotiated space with the boss and set about moving back into the late 70’s. I got speakers and an amp from that time frame and I still had a turntable from the late 70’s. In my opinion the pinnacle of audio equipment manufacture.
So I started putting the system together. Speaker stands were easy. A couple pieces of 1 X 4 oak with ¼” hobby wood. The trick is...
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7 hours ago
by woodmaker |
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I live in Decatur Alabama.
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8 hours ago
by Steve |
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I recently inherited my fathers tools and just moved his lathe to my workshop. My dilemma is that the lathe is about 6 feet long, and I really only want to make small things like pens, goblets, etc, so I don’t need such a long lathe. I would like to keep it though since it was my dad’s. He used it to turn all the spindles and columns on his front porch shown below and I remember watching him do it.
The lathe is a KFF model WL-6N and it runs fine. He painted it blue and ...
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12 hours ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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I made some headway yesterday on things, but I still need to remain focused. I realize that this is a time of opportunity for me and I don’t want to let it pass me by. I suppose that puts a bit of pressure on me, but I am rather used to that and in some ways I think I even thrive on it. Sometimes my best work comes from being under the gun. We will just have to hope that this is one of those times.
I spent a good part of the day creating the pattern packet for the birthday calend...
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17 hours ago
by Infernal2 |
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Many moons ago my family and I, including my Mother and my oldest Brother lived with my grandparents and at the ripe old age of extra-young, I remember floating around in the mystical world of my grandfather’s shop. The concrete floors of a repurposed storage/garage was like a mystical land, covered in piles of sawdust and hulks of machinery and both my older brother and I learned a few tricks of the trade at my grandfather’s side. Years later, I shudder somewhat in horror of t...
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18 hours ago
by wormil |
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Old school dulcimer frets. Holes drilled, 12 gauge copper wire hammered into a staple, then pounded into place.
I got excited near the end and just rushed putting everything together. The copper nut I had planned was way too high so I improvised with a piece of scrap ply, will go back and redo that later. The tail isn’t finished or glued. The strings aren’t cut. I used zither pins instead of machine heads (I had a bunch and thought, why not?). Here is a pic, semi-finished, ...
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19 hours ago
by Joe Lyddon |
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Well, I finally did it! It is Finished!Only five years late! Better late than never!
Assembly Instructions
I sure hope he likes it & cares for it…
I hope y’all enjoy it…
I really the Roy Underhill Tool Tote.
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20 hours ago
by Mosquito |
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So for whatever reason, I decided that I wanted to learn how to make hand cut dovetails. I don’t really have an implementation for it on a project yet. I just wanted to start trying something new, and begin acquiring skills that I haven’t tried before. These are all cut tails first. So far I’ve got 4 sets made, and you can clearly see the improvements…
First off, I tried on a scrap piece of random pine that I had. Needless to say, they’re not very good...
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