12 days ago
by Eric |
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A few weeks ago I shared about my problems resawing with a handsaw. Several people suggested various jigs, and more than one told me just to go buy a circular saw.
Well, I decided to try to give myself a nice long straight edge to guide the saw. Ended up getting more and more complex, until this is what I ended up with:
In the end, it didn’t do that great of a job. So I put off doing this until the day before I had to pack up all my tools. I figured it was now or never, so I j...
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21 days ago
by Texasgaloot |
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Before I can chronicle more of Moby Plank, which I’m itching to do, I need to get the mesquite legs and stretchers made. In order for me to complete the legs, which will be carved out of 5×5x 36 blocks of mesquite, I need a band saw much bigger than the little hobbiest one I have. I can’t afford a band saw until the project is completed, and I get paid. Hence a conundrum. After pondering possible possible solutions, and my wife objecting to me selling the kids, I struck u...
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38 days ago
by Texasgaloot |
5 comments »
This is again a mirror of my Website blog, www.thewoodshepherd.wordpress.com, which I wanted to share with my Lumberjocks friends…
One of the glorious things about being a woodworker today is our ability to be served by the Internet. Through this amazing channel of funneled electrons, we can blog and Twitter and post websites full of our projects and join together with others in songs of praise over the latest Veritas or Lie-Nielsen acquisition, or remind one another to be wary of t...
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45 days ago
by RobD |
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! I took some pictures to “document” my adventure of building these clocks by hand. It is by no means a complete record of the construction process but hey – its my first attempt.
First, some nice boards from my stash on the bench.
Laying out true and false bottoms and tops
Ripping with a saw over 100 years old but it still works great (after being sharpend of course ;-)
Crosscutting…(too lazy to pick up the other saw…)
Parts are r...
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72 days ago
by Al Navas |
6 comments »
From my blog entry:
A-beading I will go…
I had a dilemma to solve: How to decorate the apron on a small stool for granddaughter #2. She uses a little stool to sit while playing the guitar, during her guitar lessons.
I don’t have any power tools that would give me what I wanted: I really, really wanted a narrow groove and a bead on the bottom edge of the aprons. Finally, the little light went on, and out came the solution:
My Stanley 66 Universal hand beader! I pur...
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82 days ago
by Brian Havens |
8 comments »
This past Friday morning, my wife dragged me, kicking and screaming, to the farmer’s market/flea market, to take advantage of the affordable, fresh produce. As I daydreamed about my next project, it caught my attention from out of the corner of my eye… a bench plane! Yet I would not let myself get too exited, for most of the hand tools that I have found at this flea market are junk, and I had long stopped searching here. But today, on a day that I expected to do more sulking t...
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91 days ago
by Russel |
12 comments »
When I was a youngster in what they now refer to as “mid-century”, my father had a hand plane. I had no idea what kind and no idea what it was supposed to be used for, but I used it to shape my PineWood Derby car for my cub scouts race. (In case you’re wondering, I didn’t win, place or show. Just barely made it down the track.)
Until recently, that was my only experience with a hand plane. Since hanging about LumberJocks I’ve read all kinds of stuff about ...
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165 days ago
by teenagewoodworker |
20 comments »
Hey everyone,
This podcast is on hand cutting dovetails. I’ve had a few problems with some things in my printer table so it will take longer than i expected to get the third episode out. I figured i would add this one so i am not podcast less for another week or two. I think that everyone will like it. I had originally planned on having this and other videos on the same podcast for like a library of different joints but those are not filmed yet. So i hope that you like it and i hop...
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222 days ago
by Tomcat1066 |
9 comments »
Recently, I’ve been asking myself, “Self? How many saws do you need, and why type of saws do you need?” Now, obviously, I’ll never have enough saws. However, there should be a minimum set that a hand tool woodworker who’s going “old school” should have, I’m sure we can all agree.
Now, I’ve got two crosscut hand saws, a Disston D-8 and a Norvell-Shapleigh’s Diamond Edge that looks like a Harvey Peace P-26 Crosscut. I also have ...
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226 days ago
by frank |
7 comments »
Lacquer Wine
....brushed with my desire, rawness of umber inscribed, wood and sheen complete….—by flp
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