1249 days ago
by Deela40 |
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This blog series is about my task to find a gift for $5.00. I decided to make the game Shut the Box purchasing what I needed, spending no more than the $5.00 limit, along with using materials I already had. This is the final post in the series.
As mentions in post #4, I had not planned on spraying the tiles with a clear finish. I decided to do this because I was afraid the numbers I had painted on would easily wear off. When I used the spray, I created a problem as it made the tiles ju...
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754 days ago
by Dan Lyke |
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I’m a member of the awesome Sonoma County Woodworkers Association. Every time I go to a meeting, I kick myself for every meeting I’ve missed, because skill and knowledge demonstrated and transferred by the participants is amazing.
A few years ago, there was a meeting at West County Design at which Craig Collins raved about the Bodega Bay Fish Fest
Wooden Boat Challenge. This is a competition in which you’re given:
2 sheets of 3/8” x 4’ x 8’ plywood
12 pieces of 1”...
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405 days ago
by bigchopperoo |
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Have you ever struggled with the different sized plywoods and making dados that fit perfect. Well here is an eay way to make PERFECT fitting dados.
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1253 days ago
by Deela40 |
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Last night I worked on getting the tiles cut up and prepped for painting the numbers.
I decided to go with 12 tiles as opposed to 10. I wouldn’t have enough room to put the numbers on 10-12 if I made all the tiles the same size as they would bee to small to get two numbers on. I remedied this by making two different sizes. I made nine tiles sized (7/8 inch) for numbers 1-9 and three (1 9/16 inches) for numbers 10-12.
After I finished all the measurements, I used my miter saw to make ...
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1251 days ago
by Deela40 |
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To summarize for those of you are just joining this series, I needed to find a gift for $5.00 for a Christmas party. I thought it would be fun to see what I could make, using what I had and spending no more that $5.00 on anything else I needed. I decided to make the game Shut the Box. Thus far, I have spent $3.65. For a more details, check the other posts.
The oil was dried from the previous nights application so next task was to get the numbering on the tiles. I used the 1-inch stenc...
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1344 days ago
by PurpLev |
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With the number of tentatives, and number of cancelations, I knew we’d had less people that I had originally planned for this morning, which was fine, but as high-noon approached, I was pleasantly surprised to see on top of the definite-be-theres, a good presence of LJ’s I did not know had planned to come – that was awesome!
All in all we had counted 8 (+1) Lumberjocks (with Daniel’s Wife being the +1 – definitely a +!) it was really nice she came):
Spe...
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126 days ago
by bigchopperoo |
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Since I did a video how to fit inset doors, I thought maybe I should take a step backwards and show how to make a simple cope and stick cabinet door. Hope you enjoy the video, especially the ending.:-)
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1408 days ago
by degoose |
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Just a fun thing.. while we were doing some video shots of the new toy, Stuart shot some of my boards for his wife to look at.I would have liked the shop to be tidy but we had pushed everything aside to make room for the wee beastie to be filmed.
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1726 days ago
by Kevin Violette |
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3rd Annual Home Depot Woodworking Show
SATURDAY OCTOBER 25, 2008St.Catharines HOME DEPOT20 YMCA Dr.L2N 7R610:00 am – 4:00 pm
Woodworking CompetitionTwo categories to enter: -Small Project (has to fit inside a 2ft square box) -Large Project (greater than a 2ft square box)PRIZES! PRIZES! and more PRIZES! Make something great and come show it off!
Woodworking SeminarsHow to sharpen your chisels and blades 11:00-12:00Introduction to the scroll saw 12:00-1:00How to s...
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1964 days ago
by odie |
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Well here we go again. Can you be a book keeper? Well, how about a good record keeper? When we started this little endeavor we asked, asked, and asked some more questions. Most of the questions, we asked our friend and tax accountant. He handles many businesses’ taxes and accounting problems in the state of California. I need to point out something here, accountants speak a different language than woodworkers. He was asked such questions as: ”what”, “what did you say”, and “what the hell does...
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