942 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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Yesterday is the type of day which should reinforce what I have been preaching all along – we follow where we focus. For those of you who are regular readers, you know that the past couple of days have had me doing what I wouldn’t call my favorite aspect of the job – programming and data entry. Setting up the new site can be a tedious and daunting task for someone like me. I know enough to get by, but we all know how dangerous that can be.
I had set the entire day asid...
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1765 days ago
by frank |
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Glamdring and The Chainsaw Milling of Pine
....and so twas on one of my visits into the deep woods, that i heard the tales of this sword beater called glamdring,for in the presence of trees and all that speaks of wood,i first was made aware of the weaponsmith’s of gondolin….
—-these were//are they who first learned the lineage of steel,and how to work the metals needed to hold an edge in wood,were as the times of woodworking continue in the landscape here, i sought...
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943 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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Today’s post will be short, I expect. Unless I start to ramble. I don’t believe I have much to say that is exciting or very interesting.
I spent yesterday buried under a blanket of HTML working on the web site. Dawn to dusk if you will. (In between I made a meat loaf – but that was just to take a break and get away for a bit.) I did reach my goal though of checking each of the nearly 400 products and checking and rewriting the descriptions. Somehow it doesn’t ...
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639 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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So far we have looked at how to prepare our wood, choose a blade, cast on and off a piece and cut outside curves and corners. Now it is time we do some inside cutting.
Most people associate scroll sawing with cutting fretwork. At first many people don’t understand that in order to cut fretwork pieces, you need to drill entry holes in the ‘waste area’ (or the part of the pattern that drops away when you finish your cut) and thread the blade through that drilled hole ...
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1856 days ago
by frank |
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Echo-Friendly Ways To Work the Wood
....your wooden soul, is but the sole of your sitting, and as all rustic tools of wood, your rustic spirit creates an image for imagination….
....hand planning….
....with a vivid imagination….
In this day of high tech, high price tags and higher yet soaring costs of what many think they need, to have a go at woodworking, along with all those needed add-ons….that one must purchase after the initial major pu...
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1207 days ago
by Dennis Fletcher |
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I was asked to take these shutters and make some bookshelves. I will be utilizing wood that is approx. 60 yrs old and these shutters, which, we don’t know how old, but could be much more. I am inserting the pictures of the shutters, as this project may take a little while
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549 days ago
by StumpyNubs |
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The camera comes back into the Stumpy Nubs Workshop to further document life in a small semi-professional shop…
Includes tips on hand cut dovetails, utility chisels, resawing wide boards on the table saw, glue-ups, and a lot more!
This is part 2 of Episode 1. It begins with making the CN Box, then continues the “amazing mini-cabinet marker’s bench”.
My favorite part is the footage on cutting tiny dovetails by hand, big ones by machine, and huge ones with a hon...
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1724 days ago
by frank |
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Drupes and Drupaceous Nuts as Tung Oil
So lets cut to the center of the fruit….like cutting to the quick, and talk about China Wood Oil, wood nut oil or just plain ‘tung oil’. And since we’re talking in the language of botany, maybe it would be best too first say that tung oil is not a true nut, but is a fruit that comes to us as a drupe or what is also called ‘stone fruit’. Definition of a drupe….stone fruit is: ’’a one-seeded indehisc...
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802 days ago
by gpastor |
27 comments »
Seen this on youtube, funny stuff. “All too typical discussion between a clueless guy with a walnut yard tree and a man who runs a sawmill”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agcLlKcXp40
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1464 days ago
by Daren Nelson |
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I like crotches. I like milling them, I like making things with them. Some one dropped off this “crotchy” elm the other day. The butt log is kinda a big devil.
So I cut one off to mill. I was a little bummed because I see 2 hearts, which usually means less figure/ more bark inclusion…
I had to trim it abit to get it to fit the mill for width (more on that later)
First slab looks decent.
28” wide…not bad for a bandmill that is advertise...
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