11 days ago
by Serradura |
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The view, the reason for buying a 200 year old derelict cottage at this place in the rural heart of Portugal, is sometimes scary. Bush fires are common during the summer. In this case our view from the hilltop became a dark spectacle.
After a few years you get use to it, and it makes you carefull with fire. Sometimes it’s the only way to get rit things, so at the first rain fall in october….
To show that there is some woodworking involved during the first years of th...
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455 days ago
by andyboy |
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Processes involved making the base of a dressing table. Tons of little hints and tips.
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497 days ago
by newagewoodworks |
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These are some end tables i came up with a couple of weeks ago and am starting a series using different woods and stain tones, most are going for sale on ebay and to friends and family, let me know any ideas to better my design or different color combinations that people may like more. I am trying to get an idea of what the masses like the most
THANKS!!!NewAgeWoodWorks
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1098 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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On my first few drives to my new job way up in North Hollywood I passed by a large, grassy park loaded up with – by my standards – enormous trees. I vowed to check them out, and on Wednesday of last week, I took a lunchtime walk down there. It’s only a few blocks, though they are large, city blocks. It’s probably not a full 10-minute walk, so it’s not bad.
Looking it up later, I learned that it’s North Hollywood Park. The Days of Our Lives cast did a ...
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1129 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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I had a meeting today with a friend who does pet portraits here in LA. He left the film effects business last year to focus on his two passions: pets, and photography. It’s working out for him. He did portraits of all of Paris Hilton’s dogs last year. He has a bunch of freelance work for me – website stuff – which will be great to tide me over as I continue to pursue full time employment again. In other financial news, looks like I’m getting a tax refund to the t...
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1177 days ago
by KanitariuM |
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This is my first table.
Amazed to see coffee table’s prices today, I decided to build one.I’m inspired by retro tables like Kindney table, Danish design and Nakashima’s artwork.
This is a Tasmanian Eucalyptus Burl slab.I want to create a coffee table like this one :http://www.surfingcowboys.com/woslcowihale.html
I find the hairpin legs :http://www.ianmaclean.com/
Now I will sanding with avrasive paper 50, 80, 120, 180 and 240.
Pictures coming so...
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1203 days ago
by PG_Zac |
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So you take one seriously grotty, old, dry, termite ridden, rotting chunk of gumtree (Eucalyptus).Strip off as much of the rot & termite crud as you can with a crowbar.Slice it on a bandsaw.And admire the beauty within after a little sanding and a quick coat of liquid wax
.You never can judge a book by its cover
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1208 days ago
by PG_Zac |
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Well all 17 metres of Gum tree (see this post) have been sliced and are sitting in my drying room.
In my previous posts I showed some of the beautiful slabs I cut out of logs that would otherwise have landed in the garbage dump, and just for kicks, here are a few more.
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And here are some pics of the process....Now we wait for many months until they are dry enough to be turned into projects.
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1211 days ago
by degoose |
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Here is a few short videos of the Torque Workcentre making light work of dressing a slab of Eucalyptus..
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This slab was fairly hard and around 16 inches by 30 inches..even though this is a small slab by any standard the principle is the same and as you can see it only takes minutes.. so if the slab were bigger it would still not take any great amount of time to flatten and smooth it…
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1217 days ago
by PG_Zac |
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We all (should) know that wood naturally has some internal stresses that on occasion cause the wood to warp in various ways. These stresses NORMALLY tend to surface during moisture changes or sometimes during removal of sections of a board or plank.
Well yesterday wood stress nearly made me cr@p myself.
So there I was, happily slabbing away at some beautiful Eucalyptus (see previous 2 posts). Relief was coursing through me as I neared the end of a cut knowing I could take a few minute...
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