So I haven’t forgotten about this bench. I have lots of spare time to plan my woodworking projects before I actually work on them. So I decided to work out all the joinery for the bench. I’m going to try my hand at loose mortise and tenon. I figured loose tenons would be easier because of all the curves. My plan is to route the mortises in the stock before I cut the curves. Here’s what I came up with: So enough planning . . . time to start cutting . . .
OK, so I “cheated.” I typically assemble face frames with pocket screws. It’s simple, fast and strong enough. Since this face frame is composed of 1” x 3/4” members, pocket screws seemed a bit weak to me—I’d only be able to use a single screw in each member, which would allow it to “spin” somewhat. While this would be minimized greatly after gluing to the carcass, some “twist” could still occur over time. Since the drawers w...
With the start of school coming and the constant work with my band I hope to get another woodburning piece in before the end of summer. I planning on doing a Black Sabbath one or maybe a Guns n Roses one. I’m once again to ideas and suggestion. Dragonforce’s new album hits August 26!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pat
The Day Begins I started the day by marking out and cutting the slots for the biscuits into the inside faces of the sides and back. Following this, I decided to “rehearse” the glue up of the main carcass—the sides, back and bottom front apron. After yesterday's "flip" I have to admit to being a bit apprehensive about this step, but, lessons learned, I was watchful of the sides and never came close to dropping one this time. The green tape you see is there to protect the l...
Construction begins… In between trips to the zoo, the Children’s Museum and backyard “play dates” with the kids, I’ve logged some decent shop time on this project the past couple weekends. Last weekend I dimensioned the lumber and assembled the two cherry and walnut frame-and-panel sides. Due to a misaligned rip fence, I wound up with a mortise and stub-tenon joint that simply wouldn’t close. I decided to lop off the tenons and attach the rails to the st...
Well, I might as well give this whole blog thing a try. I’ve been having a hard time picking my next project. I have so many things I could make, but really nothing pressing. There is a large “honey-do” list, so I asked the wife what I should make next. She said “piano bench”. Our neighbors gave us their upright piano a couple years ago, but they didn’t give us a bench. Once again, I’m going to use this as practice for furniture building. ...
I love craigslist. Around the same time I began the planning for my new shop, I started using “igoogle” for my browser homepage. I also discovered a couple cool “craigslist” widgets for igoogle that display search results for preconfigured searches on your homepage. So, for example, if I’m considering the purchase of, say, a new dust collector, I’ll add a craigslist “dust collector” search widget to my igoogle homepage. Since I basically live...
Here is a follow up from earlier in the week. I started milling some of the logs from that blog. I currently have others I am getting backed up on (too many oaks and honeylocust) but am low on cherry so I decided to mill some of it. Turned out very nice, small but nice.!!One 12 foot log milled and ready to be moved to the drying stacks I really got a great stack of almost perfect cherry boards. I am pleased. (400 bft ? and did not mill them all yet) The walnut like I said was a little s...
The logs have slowly trickled in…until this morning, I scored nicely. I have not seen this guy the last couple weeks. He has been bringing me a load once a week, he brought a nice one today . 25 logs 8’-14’ long. The smallest was a cherry just over 12”, most in the 18”-24” range. Cherry, walnut, hickory, red oak, white oak, honeylocust and hard maple. These should keep me out of trouble for a couple days . The walnut is iffy (crooked) the oaks and hickory a...
The quick and dirty instructions on how to make a zig-zag pattern cutting board. Click on the pictures to see a full size image. Choose a couple different types of hardwood. The more colors the better. Below is cherry, maple and walnut. Rip strips of wood any width so the total with is about 12”. This is the width that will fit through my planer. The beauty of this is that none of the widths have to be the same. The board shown below is made of scrape wood. If you only have shor...
Your Online Shop - Your Support Is Greatly Appreciated - Your Woodworking Showcase - 3 Ways To Help, Financially - Your Woodworking Community
| Author | Latest activity | New comments or replies since you last checked |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Drill Press Drawer Set |
odie | 42 seconds ago | by Karson | sign in to use this feature |
|
IWF Atlanta, Great show, spent to much money! |
Les Hastings | 58 seconds ago | sign in to use this feature | |
|
About finished with Finishing.. |
Marta | 3 minutes ago | by marcb | sign in to use this feature |
|
|
Torsion Box question |
TPE | 4 minutes ago | by PurpLev | sign in to use this feature |
|
|
Vanity Base |
CaptainSkully | 5 minutes ago | by Douglas Krueger | sign in to use this feature |
|
|
Smith #3...I Am not a collector...I am NOT a collector |
SST | 7 minutes ago | by Karson | sign in to use this feature |
|
|
Cad |
Michael Brailsford | 11 minutes ago | by DaveR | sign in to use this feature |
|
|
Potting Bench |
CaptainSkully | 17 minutes ago | by Douglas Krueger | sign in to use this feature |
|
|
Substitude for Bloxygen |
PaBull | 18 minutes ago | by Joey | sign in to use this feature |
|
|
Scratch Awl |
GaryK | 21 minutes ago | by Karson | sign in to use this feature |
©2005-2008 LumberJocks.com. All Rights Reserved.
DISCLAIMER: All views and comments posted by members are not necessarily those of LumberJocks.com or of those working on the site.
| Latest Projects | Latest Blog Entries | Latest Forum Topics 
|
Latest Projects | Latest Blog Entries | Latest Forum Topics 
|
