57 days ago
by Chris Davis |
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Today I’ll be building a pair of murphy wall with a bookcase separating them. This will be the version I call the Hudson Bay. It is our simple Alpine with some molding added to the face. I use a stock molding found at a local hardwood supplier. They will be built unfinished in maple. The customer will finish it themselves.
The bookcase I plan on making it a little shorter and a little shallower in depth then the two murphy beds. I am doing this so that the crown molding will w...
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114 days ago
by Chris Davis |
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I had a LJ send a message about finishing. I thought maybe I’d post the question and answer here and let other LJ’s chime in on what they think or use.
Question:I wanted to ask you if you use any kind of sanding sealer on your murphy beds and side cabinets before you spray them with lacquer…
My reply:The lacquers that they make now doesn’t need a sanding sealer really. They are so easy to sand there is no point in keeping two products. The companies add a produc...
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139 days ago
by tooldad |
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I know just in the past few days we have been bashing the tv networks for not funding Norm and shoving hours and days worth of activity into 20 minutes. But I want my claim to fame, well at least a chance. Even if it is just online!
Please view my entry video, it’s not the most exciting, but to the point, and hopefully not too boring. I will be honest, I feel I am PBS material not DIY network material. Simply, I am the real deal, similar to Norm, and I am not an actor with a pret...
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148 days ago
by Blake |
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THE OVAL
The apron for this table is going to be a bent-laminated oval:
I found a great tutorial on how to draw a simple oval on a website called In the Woodshop with Howard Ruttan. Here are some of the simple drawings on his page:
And here is mine:
MAKING THE FORM
So I cut it out with the jigsaw:
Then I used the first oval as a router template to cut its clone:
(I broke my favorite spiral router bit in the process)
The two MDF form ha...
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240 days ago
by getneds |
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I did a write-up this morning about rss feeds if anyones interested. This might be a very useful tool for you guys. Rss feeds work basically on subscribers. Once you have a following ( be 1 or be 100) they check your feed regularly. So you add new projects, say weekly, and this info gets broadcasted ,basically, to your subscribers. It’s a great avenue to get exposure on items possibly for sale. There are entire sites based off feeds, showcasing products of all sorts. If it’s of an...
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383 days ago
by Keith Cruickshank |
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I know that most of us covet that next slick power tool. I’m like that too. But I’ve also come to appreciate hand planes for their ability to make quick work of tasks that can’t be done easily by machine. In this video we take a look at five types of hand planes that are commonly found in wood shops.
By the way, if you’re a regular WoodTreks viewer, you know that usually I’m behind the camera, featuring some of America’s top artisans. But to mix things...
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408 days ago
by WoodMosaics |
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The size doesn’t really mater, they just have to all be the same AND they have to match up with the triangle and any pieces of another size you may use along with them.
The reason I go with .734 or 47/64” is some of the boards I was getting were just under ¾”. I cut the strips off the edge of a board and from those strips, I cut my pieces, so I want to be able to then get the strip to the right width, and if it starts out to narrow, I can’t. Now when I use the half size pieces with the re...
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542 days ago
by Stephen Fields |
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I have had a request to make five additional small cabinets like I made for my first commission. I thought I would try and take progress photos as I go. I am truly a beginner so if you see things that I can do to improve the process, please let me know. Sadly, you may have to explain these improvements in detail, but lets cross that bridge when we get there. :)
Here is a picture of one of the completed cabinets from the first set:
Hopefully, the next five will also look like this.
I...
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577 days ago
by flink |
4 comments »
Just another thing I discovered this morning. Netflix sucks for woodworking videos.
Smartflix (found via Make Magazine's website) many on a variety of topics. Turning, carving, cabinetry, you name it.
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656 days ago
by Frank Boer |
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• My marquetry guidelines:
There’s nothing to it,... really just get a nice and strait ruler, a sharp normal utility-knife, scotch-tape , patience and a small hard sandingblock with 150 and 180 grain and start cutting, thats how I learned it…..
Guidelines:
- I generally use MDF as a work-surface because it has no grain and therefore the knife won’t try to ‘wonder off’.
- Never try to cut the veneer in one go, always make multiple lite strokes dependin...
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