54 days ago
by lethentymill |
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Leaving the tool chest for a moment; we go back a few years to the Domesday Book and 1086 and an interesting fact – 13 saws were recorded in the kingdom, bowsaws were common at the time so what kind of saws were these? Probably not sawmills; mills are mentioned aplenty and millponds too but they were agricultural mills.
These are probably pitsaws, a gruelling job for two men; one of them in the pit and the other steering the two-handed saw and balancing on the level tree-trunk as they r...
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357 days ago
by Zipsss |
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About three years ago, a magnificent Elm that was at least 90 years old finally died, after agonizing for the last several years. It was in my brothers yard and we decided that it will be honored by transforming it into furniture. We cut it in November 2006, we ended up with 10 logs that ranged in between 2’ and 4’ diameter and about 10’ in lenght. The month after, we hire a portable mill and cut it in several thicknesess and withds. After sitting for nine months in a te...
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540 days ago
by Lee A. Jesberger |
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As you may have guessed, I make many of these tables. The practice is needed, and the combinations of woods make it very interesting.
These were all made from the plexiglass templates shown. By using these templates, I can make these tops very quickly.
I also have other shapes that are more complicated, which I’ll post at another time.
Lee
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575 days ago
by chscholz |
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So what is it, the ultimate handcut joint? The ultimate joint will require precision, flawless execution and many years of training. Many of us Western woodworkers would probably say the dovetail.
Two weeks ago I had the chance to see one of the best executed examples of handcut dovetails I have ever encountered. It was in a side-area of the flower room of the Meixi village museum. Meixi was a small village in the Pearl river delta, today it is a suburb of Zhuhai, essentially the Northern ...
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