538 days ago
by Lee Barker |
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Since I got this tragic-looking tool at a giveaway (a junk store was moving, and the last day was free) and it had a bit of a name—James Swan tools are present and selling on the ‘bay—I decided the maximum benefit was to sell it. At the same time I put up a 2” Greenlee which I had. It wasn’t much, I thought. Well the Greenlee got all the attention, and indeed sold, but the Swan, all inch and three quarters of it, after two weeks, languished still. I considere...
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518 days ago
by MrMeasureTwice |
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Saturday… 0630… In the car heading to Lowe’s for the last few items needed to make the piece of my garage a real shop. Kind of like Pinocchio wanting to be a real boy – my 1/3 of the 3-car garage WANTS to be a woodshop, and I am the maker, Geppetto, who has been carefully, slowly (too slow) making that piece of the garage into a shop.
Rich, my neighbor across the street, and, a “sheetrock guy” by trade, has offered to help my little piece of heaven becom...
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469 days ago
by Chuck |
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While everyone else at my house was napping yesterday I gave hand cut dove tails another try. This was my 2nd attempt.
They aren’t the good, but they aren’t the worse I’ve seen.
http://woodchucksworkshop.blogspot.com/2012/03/hand-cut-dove-tails-take-2.html
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943 days ago
by spunwood |
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M & T
With two tenons per leg, I created the dillema of chiseling 8 mortises. I do not yet have sharpening stones and my skills with mortising are a bit lacking, so I decided to simplify and just do two by hand and cut off 6 tenons.
This meant alot of sanding to even up the top of the legs so that the bench top would sit evenly and be supported throughout rather than by just one or two of the leg tops.
But I am so happy that I kept two mortises. They came out well despite some te...
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297 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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As usual, for the pictures, click here.
Today was very exciting! I decided to finish the base joinery prep once and for all and powered through the last 3 tenons and mortises. I wrapped up with a dry run of the base and I am very happy with the results (though there are a few minor glitches to take care of tomorrow…more on that below).
To begin with, I was not at all thrilled with continuing the tenon cutting. I have been using a makeshift saw horse (2 pieces of offcuts from t...
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1989 days ago
by YooperCasey |
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Last time I laid out my equipment purchase plans. No progress on purchases though I have decided on the Ridgid TS3650 contractor saw. I see the Woodworking show is coming to Milwaukee in February and that is only 5 hours south for me, so I may see what kind of deal I can snag there on a table saw.
I’ve spent the last few evenings working on my core skills. Marking out, cutting, fitting and basically getting used to how certain things behave. This includes trying out my new Bosch CS20...
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1973 days ago
by itsme_timd |
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I love Mission style furniture and am working on my first piece, a couch table that will be used as an aquarium stand. I’m trying to take my time with this one, it gets worked on a little at a time in between some of my smaller projects.
The table is red oak from HD. I don’t have a planer yet so I needed to buy lumber that was close to size and fairly finished. I want to try somethung in quarter sawn white oak next.
I just finished one side of the table and wanted to post...
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765 days ago
by LegendInMyOwnMind |
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Took some approximate measurements of the base and height of the table.
Looks like about 14” wide by 16” deep.
The height of the table isn’t an even number like I would have expected. It’s around 1-5/8”. Measured 1.726” using my digital calipers. I’m going with 1-3/4” as my height. Heck, my brick basement floor isn’t that level.
I make a CAD file with each base. Looks like I can use the router table and subtract off 1....
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9 days ago
by Airframer |
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So, it has been a few months since I have done any work on the bench. I think I needed a mental reset and to get through the rest of my wife’s pregnancy distracted by small projects.
Now that that is over with and my shop is in a manageable condition again finally I can get back to work on this elephant of a project.
Having a newborn in the house has limited my available time in the shop but that seems to have focused my energy when I DO get in there to get something done while ...
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134 days ago
by TDog |
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So I decided to blog on the woodworkers and writers who inspire me to “work the wood” besides the fact that it is a thing that is just “in my blood” or a legal addiction…how nice!
Slant Top Desk by C.H. Becksvoort
The Short List
Woodworkers (in influential order)1. C.H. Becksvoort-maker of amazing Shaker Style Furniture plus great Shaker Inspired Author2. Thomas Moser-the great American Dream in real life, Thomas Moser Furniture-and a great classic book ...
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