1248 days ago
by David Murray |
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Today I finished up the last of the pens I was making for gifts, you can check them out on my projects page. I spent part of the afternoon making a picture frame for an ariel photo of the property I bought. I can say that I’m not very good at making frames, this one I made from some old oak barn boards.
Well I’ve been on LJ’s for about a month now and it has and is interesting. I really enjoy seeing what other woodworkers from not only around my area in Kentucky are doing...
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1235 days ago
by richgreer |
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I don’t know what kind of response this post will get – but I am curious.
I’ll begin with an honest confession – as I write this the safety shields on my table saw and jointer are not in place. I only put them on when someone else is joining me to do some work in my workshop.
My excuses are a little lame. I dislike taking them off when using a dado on my table saw or using my jointer to cut a rabbet.
I’m curious, how many of us use our table saw and/...
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1202 days ago
by richgreer |
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Pretend that you wanted to build a new shop with all new tools and you insisted that all those tools be built in the USA. What kind of a shop would you end up with? I honestly don’t know.
I don’t know where everything is made, but my intuition tells me that Shopsmith, Oneway, Kreg, and Incra are made in the US. I could be wrong. There may be more.
Are there any table saws, band saws, miter saws, routers, jointers, planers, of drill presses made in the US?
It is ...
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1191 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
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A Big Thanks
Yesterday, as I was learning to post photos on my new site, I got an email telling me that the image files were too big and it was leading to slow load times. I needed to optimize the photos for the internet.
A few emails led to a phone call from fellow woodworker Troy Bouffard of Fairbanks, AK. He took the time to walked me through PhotoShop for resizing photos. Thanks to Troy, the viewing experience will be better with faster loading images.
Who Is This Guy?
Troy, a...
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1181 days ago
by mmh |
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I purchased this piece from an Australian source and the woman who sold it to me had no history or information on it. It’s “old” and may be “Mulga” burl is all the information I was given. Since I’m not familiar with Mulga or most Austrailian trees, I thought I’d post this to see if anyone has input to this.
It is a burl that was turned to expose the inner grain. It was polished and may have a light oil on it, but I have not done anything to exp...
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1174 days ago
by Joe Watson |
3 comments »
picked up another jack early in the week. the number 6 spokeshave chisel moulding plane and transition i bought today.
stanley 51 sweetheart spokeshave. moulding planemillers falls 814 jack plane stanley number 6 type 18 oak leaf transition smoother
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1164 days ago
by Dan'um Style |
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This luxury watch from Switzerland’s Artya features a face made from fossilized dinosaur dung. ...
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.Dinosaur dung crafted into $11,290 watch Strap is made from an American cane toad..GENEVA – A Swiss watchmaker is hoping to raise a stink with an expensive timepiece that eschews the trade’s standard gold, diamond or titanium fittings for a more earthy substance — dinosaur dung.
Vesenaz, Switzerland-based company Artya says the watch set in fossilized feces wil...
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1151 days ago
by Ecocandle |
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Hello All,
Today I cut my first half blind light bulb mortise. I am quite proud of it. I have blogged about how I came to cut such a beast. It was really fun.
http://bit.ly/bQYzFY
Ok, now I have some glue ups to do. I love this stuff.
Brian
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1111 days ago
by degoose |
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This is a knife…..well at least the handle..
I had a mate ask me to make a knife handle to replace the plastic handle he had on it..
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A small block of Hairy Oak was selected and then resawn. ... the two halves of the knife handle were double-stick taped together...to maintain grain pattern across both sides.....the shape drawn and cut on the bandsaw.
As he wants to do the shaping and carving, I only had to rough cut the shape...only a coupla minutes to do it.
I will post p...
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1098 days ago
by NewPickeringWdWrkr |
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Okay, it’s not something I can gain a lot of prestige or money from, but it’s a personal Eureka moment that I had to struggle with on my own to understand. Being of scientific mind, I couldn’t let the issue lie from my last blog post on the shifting shades of my clock face.
If the hypothesis in my blog post is out to lunch, I would love to discuss it here or on my blog site.
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