1 day ago
by dryhter |
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Hey Everybody,
Well, here it is Christmas time, and if you are like me, you are contemplating a special Christmas gift.
This year I decided to make a Game Table and this first video will deal with fabricating the table legs.
The inspiration for the legs comes from Federal style furniture,the detail that caught my eye is an embellishment at the foot of the leg. I found it was not as easy to duplicate as I had thought and it, became necessary to improvise. A couple of jigs solved the d...
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1 day ago
by Autumn |
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HOW TO CUT AND INLAY MOTHER OF PEARL—Part 4
Step 10: How to transfer the pattern to the wood
Take the taped pearl pieces and decide exactly where you want to inlay them. If necessary, create a penciled box on the wood with guidelines.
Apply a generous amount of glue in the chosen area with the Elmer’s glue stick. Some people use rubber cement to affix the pieces at this point. If the Elmer’s doesn’t work for you, try the cement.
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Lay the taped pearl pieces onto the glued area...
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1 day ago
by PG_Zac |
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My nephew told me yesterday afternoon, that a tree had been blown over during the very high winds we had 2 days ago, and he thought it was a Yellowwood tree. Needless to say, I jumped into the car and sped off to confirm his suspicion. Unfortunately he was wrong, it was a Wild Plum tree (Harpephyllum Caffrum).
It fell over outside our local court about 80 metres from where a Wild Plum had fallen over about 2 years ago. Fortunately for me, when that previous one fell, the council’s ch...
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1 day ago
by PG_Zac |
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Yesterday we had bad weather, so I had a gap to do some work in the shop instead of being outside helping my wife erect the new pasture fence.
A job that has taken a back seat for a while was to slice up some salvaged wood for final drying and also for sending samples to a couple of guys who have requested it.
Please note that the colours in these photos are very muted, and are much richer in real life.
Firstly, Spalted Avocado
.Yellowwood
.Natal Mahogany
.Very Fresh Wild Pl...
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1 day ago
by Autumn |
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HOW TO CUT AND INLAY MOTHER OF PEARL—Part three
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Two good books about mother-of-pearl inlay:
“Pearl Inlay: An Instruction Manual for Inlaying Abalone and Mother-of-Pearl” by James E. Patterson
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“The Art of Inlay” by Larry Robinson
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A small hand clamp and strong reading glasses (x2.5) are additions to my pearl-cutting arsenal. I recommend them to anyone for whom close viewing and tight gripping are a challenge. ..
Step 5: Clean up your work area
Sweep the floor i...
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1 day ago
by EzJack |
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Don’t ask how it got there.
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1 day ago
by EzJack |
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100 grit sand paper worked for me. How it got on ??? don’t ask. I had one of those days.
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1 day ago
by M1ni0n |
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OK, I am going to try my hand at keeping a blog going for the current big project I am doing with the help of my Marines. We are building a box that will hold a small tray with a flag case. The flag case will house a flag flown ot Officer Candidates School headquarters in Virginia. I currently have the Google Sketchup drawing and plans done. We have already began milling our lumber and building our jigs required to construct this project. I will post what I have so far. Hopefully I am b...
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1 day ago
by Safetyboy |
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I’ve been wanting a real wood-working bench for a while, instead of the shaky typical “garage bench” I’ve been using. Needed something I could clamp a panel in for planing across & diagonal, a vice with a larger capacity, and a better way to clamp parts while cutting dovetails.
But I knew this was not going to be my “final” workbench – I know that I’ll eventually want something bigger once my shop moves out of the garage into a dedicated...
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1 day ago
by BlankMan |
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Well here’s some pictures of the shelf completed and installed with the Drum Sander on the new stand, and the reason for all this. I was going to paint the shelf black but then I thought that would make it dark in the storage area. So then I thought white, but then I remember I had some Dutch Boy Metallic Silver so I used that. Matched rather nicely.
The shelf painted and installed for the last time.
Bottom view (stand upside down) showing how I supported the shelf with one screw ...
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