427 days ago
by frank |
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368 days ago
by Zuki |
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Well . . . DW (Dear Wife) did not like my initial idea for the 2×4 project so yesterday evening she spent a little time surfing the net looking for things she would like to have in the house. She found a XXXXXX and asked ”can you make this?”. I said ”yes . . . but there are dovetails involved . . . and I have not done dovetails before.” I started to think twice, but I said to myself . . . ”self, one of the main goals of the LJ WW Awards is to challenge on...
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345 days ago
by SPalm |
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Getting much closer. The finally assembly takes shape. It is a Krenov type cabinet. Maybe a disservice to the Master trying to build one out of a 2×4, but I wanted the largest piece of furniture that I could build, and this is what appeared. It has been fun.
I am trying to figure out how to complete it. The door is not attached. It is about an eighth of an inch thick. The plan was to glue a block to the inside top and bottom of the door and use finishing nails as hinge pins. T...
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367 days ago
by Zuki |
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Well DW and I went X-Country skiing this morning. It was a beautiful day.
When we returned I worked on my cut list calculations for my XXXXX. I was surprised to see that I can actually make two XXXXXs instead of one. Or to look at it another way . . . I have spare parts just in case I screw up the dovetails.
This evening I decided to sift through my pile of construction grade 2×4s that I store in my shop (all two of them) to look for the best one. Here am I holding my stick.
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371 days ago
by SPalm |
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Well, I started cutting up my 2×4 and did some prototyping.
Jointed and resawed a bit. Then I sent them through my little Ryobi thickness planer. Even after letting it acclimate to the house for a week, once it was prepared, it still warped more than I would have thought. I had never resawed anything before as all I have is a craftsman bandsaw. But with a new large blade, it worked much nicer than I would have thought. You can see the bandsaw in the background.
I had never rea...
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352 days ago
by Zuki |
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Well the end is getting near for Project X – 2×4.
I had a little “oopsie” when dry fitting the pieces and had to rely on my homemade edible glue to stick the “oopsie” back together. Actually there are better words to express how I felt, but as this is a family site . . . “oopsie” will do just fine.
The pics above are from yesterday and I have arranged Project X and its twin in order to deceive the average woodworker. You can only decipher what it actually is if you ha...
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362 days ago
by Zuki |
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Ok . . . I have been put under tremendous peer pressure to provide pics because of the NPDH rule.
Not making dust this evening but I did convince DW to take a few snaps. Note to self – get DW new digital camera so I can inherit hers.
The first two pics show my first ever attempt at hand cut dovetails. I am happy with the way it came out. I just have to practice more to get better.
Here are two pics of Project X. The top snap shows the top section of Project X. There is o...
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365 days ago
by Zuki |
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This evening I checked another item off my list for Project X. I spent a couple of hours calculating, measuring, cutting, cussing, planeing, cleaning, moving and a few other “ings” I seem to be forgetting.
Due to some strategic use of my planer (some would call it an accident) I managed to squeeze another 2 key pieces out of the 2×4. Exxxxxxcellent.
Well . . . DW was not up for taking pictures tonight . . . so the “no pictures, did not happen” does not apply.
Tomorrow night I ...
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363 days ago
by Zuki |
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I did not get out to the shop last night . . . rough day at work drained the good right out of me. I did get out tonight to work on dovetails.
Well . . . I did better than I expected. Now I’m not saying I going to win any awards for my dovetail joinery, but the four pieces of the top did fit together.
On my practice run I found that the Irwin Dovetail saw I had purchased was just to rough on the spruce. So I put it away. I found the best saw was my Stanley Japanese pull saw . . . un...
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360 days ago
by Zuki |
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Managed to get out in the shop this weekend. The weather was really strange . . . +5 and rain. Lots of snow gone.
I finished off the remainder of the dovetails. Staying inside the pencil lines and cutting straight were the biggest challenges. I also found that chopping out the tails with a chisel was a bit of a pain because the spruce would collapse and not cut clean. Took a bit of work cleaning the pins and tails . . . but in the end they all fit together with a satisfying “cluk”.
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