986 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
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Thanks to the creativity and hard work of Karson, Mark and Michael we are starting our first unique Woodworking Challenge! Karson sent the proposal to Glen Huey, Senior Editor of Popular Woodworking and asked him for their support in this challenge. Glen whole heartily agreed.
Karson's proposal was to use the cover project from February 2007 issue #160 of Popular Woodworking - Thorsen House Side Table - as our challenge. When we have the Summer and Winter Awards everyone builds their o...
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954 days ago
by dennis mitchell |
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The photos aren’t the best, but here is my update on the Greene and Greene table. Yes I went rustic. I got thinking (think…think…think) and I became interested in translating some of the details to a rustic style. I have a very old cheap band saw so I’ve not done much re-sawing. I’ve never done a breadboard end. Notice I book matched the top. I’m using pine from an old corral and a few pine branches from my firewood pile for the legs. The pegs are well drie...
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936 days ago
by Karson |
15 comments »
OK, you have been asking. What I’ve been up to on the Thorsen G & G tables.So here are some misc pictures. Of the Holly Thorsen Greene and Greene Table.This is the boards that I was using to select the wood for the table. The table top boards
The legs before the mortise cuts
The legs with the pegs in place but not finished to a crown.
The shelf support brackets with the mortise slots cut and the peg holes cut.
Cutting the mortises with a square corner on the new Mortise m...
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936 days ago
by Karson |
9 comments »
OK, you have been asking. What I’ve been up to on the Thorsen G & G tables.So here are some misc pictures. Of the Goncalo Alves Thorsen Greene and Greene Table.
This is the boards that I was using to select the wood for the table. The table top
The legs with the mortises cut. I used the www.woodhaven.com mortise table to cut them.
The legs, aprons, breadboard end pieces and the tabletop under it all.
The shelf support brackets with the mortise slots cut and the peg holes c...
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85 days ago
by CaptainSkully |
7 comments »
I’ve spent a couple of hours in AutoCAD trying to find the right proportions (using the Golden Mean religously), and here’s what I’ve come up with:
It’s 36” wide and 30” tall. Please let me know what you think. This project is too important to leave it up to me…
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869 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
7 comments »
Glen Huey has just wrapped up our Spring Thorsen Table Challenge in great blog article. He even revealed some background information about their judging process. Don’t forget to post some comments there if you like the article ;)
Once again, congratulations to Popular Woodworking and the entire LumberJocks community!
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82 days ago
by CaptainSkully |
6 comments »
Being as it’s Labor Day Weekend, and I’m out of QSWO, and my lumber yard isn’t open until Tuesday, I turned from my other projects and worked with what I had, a butt-load of mahogany. My buddy was over talking boat stuff, so I asked him to give me a hand with the behemoth boards. We laid out both 3/4” x 18” x 10’ boards on the sawhorses and looked at the magnificent, flowing grain patterns. We picked out the nicest 4’ section and he helped me rough...
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921 days ago
by Karson |
6 comments »
In my blog I started to talk about my next set of Thorsen Greene and Greene Tables. I called them my Twins.. The blog talked about my use of Holly wood and Popular wood to make the set of twins. Both woods in their normal state are quite light. Holly as being classified as the whitest of woods and Popular as an Ivory color for sapwood and usually a light green tint in the heart wood.
Here are pictures of normal Holly and Popular The Holly is in the left and the Popular on the right of t...
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935 days ago
by Karson |
6 comments »
I wanted to show the jig that I used for making the Thorsen Greene & Greene table Aprons.
The plans in Popular Woodworking had a cutout on each of the aprons. Different patterns on the sides and the front and back.
I took the plans and printed them on my printer but each of the boxes were suppose to be 1” square and they were small. So I took the printout to Staples and had them copy them at 125% increase. I ended up with 1” squares. I then glued the paper on some ½” particle board ...
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86 days ago
by CaptainSkully |
5 comments »
This is my most ambitious project to date. I’m going to make a Greene & Greene sofa table that closely follows the design of premier G&G LJ Darrell Peart. I pinged him the other day, and he sent me to American Furniture Design Co. to buy plans. As you can see, they’re not identical to the one made by Marc in Darrell’s class at William Ng's woodworking school.
American Furniture’s Version:
TheWoodWhisperer’s Version:
What I plan to do i...
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