213 days ago
by PurpLev |
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So for a very long time I have been planning to build my daughter a bed.
I have been reading anything I could get about bed construction (I really liked “Anatomy of a Bed” from Fine Woodworking), checking out different beds for design concepts, and construction methods, and have been mentally practicing building it for the longest time.
so I finally came up with the following design. frame is all Maple, joinery is Mortise & Tenon and headboard/footboard panels are planne...
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434 days ago
by Dekker |
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At the end of my last blog entry for this project, I had my pieces rough milled. Well, since then I have given the sides of the boxes its 30’ miter, and used my recently-tuned miter saw to cut the sides with nice clean miters. Once that was done, I needed to put the finger-hole for removing the lid onto the “front” of the box. To do this, I needed a 3/4” forstner bit, which has a nice flat bottom. To get the curve I needed, I needed to place the center of the bit 3/32&...
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443 days ago
by Dekker |
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I made yet another trip to my local lumberyard (30km, 19miles), and decided I needed some more variety in my wood selection at home. I really wanted to find some spalted maple (I have fallen in love with the look of the stuff), but they did not have any (only poor samples of spalted ash).
In the end, I picked up some Bloodwood and some beautiful bird’s eye maple. The bird’s eye is something I’ve been wanting to work with, having seen some really great examples in the LJ g...
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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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583 days ago
by frank |
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Birds Eye Maple
....well just a short blog story today as I’m heading out soon to get my butt in high gear.
I’ve been keeping busy around the shop lately with the many projects of woodworking as come my way, a counter top in process, some pieces, (actually three) of furniture and then there’s that three legged piece of maple that I have put up on the third floor of the barn-shop that has started whispering my name for attention. Why just yesterday there I was up on the...
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