34 days ago
by Woodhacker |
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I’ll call this a radial dovetail (for lack of better name). This is a practice handcut joint for a future keepsake box. It’s curly maple and Caribbean rosewood.
My initial thought was to have all the sides of the dovetails in the maple point to one common perspective. However, during layout I quickly found out some of the angles would be far too severe, putting the integrity of the joinery at risk. Thus I used two perspective points for this joint.
Note there are four tails in the...
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163 days ago
by frank |
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My Puszcza of a WoodTable
....rustically flared, bucolically conceived, asian inspiration….—by flp
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166 days ago
by frank |
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I Am Seeing WoodWorking Goodness
....woke up this morning seeing all things as ‘very good’, i’m a worker of wood, got a head full of ideas that are ‘very good’, i’m a worker of wood, my opinions are mine which i shape by hand as ‘very good’, i’m a worker of wood, there’s plenty of wood joinery to do as ‘very good’, i’m a worker of wood….
—-soon out to the barn of my work-space i shall go, to start ...
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151 days ago
by frank |
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RusticallyFlared-AsianInspiration—-a study in the cross cultural texture of ‘wood art’.
....so how proud are you of your underside?
I still remember the time I was in a well known and famous gallery owner’s showroom over in the upstate region of … ...., looking at some of the furniture on display. Well next thing I know as I’m down on my hands and knees is a loud display of noise as this person let me know that I was on the verge of being aske...
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242 days ago
by Allison |
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**Aaaah My cockatoo, The pattern came from a stained glass pattern book I had once. No credits here however as I know longer have the book. Stain glass patterns are a different place to look for patterns and I have found quite a few interesting ones however it is more like doing segmentation with these patterns instead of intarsia. I love this one though because it is made out of curly maple (not the cheapest wood around) given to me by a neighbor of my fathers. And the brighter yellow actua...
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