48 days ago
by MarkTheFiddler |
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It has been a bit of a bother to find time for woodworking. I found some today and managed to put in a few hours. Today was about fitting the sides of the lamps to the side edges. Although I got all the I made progress on both lamps but I only got one assembled up to this point.
I am going very slow on this so I can enjoy what I’m making. For starters, I added one coat of tung oil before starting the glue up. The glue joints don’t have any tung oil on them so thery are good...
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65 days ago
by MarkTheFiddler |
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I have been building some lamps for the Living room. I discovered an issue. My small miter saw used to be as accurate as anything else I could manage. I didn’t realize that the fence had warped until I started assembling. My 45 angles wer more like 45.75. It threw a wrench in things and gave me a little firewood but I recovered most of the cuts. I’m ready to move on.
I was able to straigten the fence on the small saw but now I’m marking my cuts and disregardng the presets...
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90 days ago
by Mauricio |
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Hello again friends. Ok I know this bench build has been a little anticlimactic because you have seen the bench put together a million times. But this should be my final post on this bench build… maybe…
I got the finish applied, added leather to the vices, and put a hand wheel on the wagon vise.
After testing out the finish on scraps I decided to go with 1-1-1 (MS, Poly, BLO) on most of the bench. I sanded it into the top with 220 grit sandpaper to fill the pores some.
J...
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127 days ago
by Mauricio |
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Welcome back folks. Progress has been slow but steady. I’m in the home stretch now.
I need to finish up this leg vise, then the lower shelf and I’ll be ready for final assembly.
A while back BrandonW gave me a Jatoba board. Its the same stuff I’m using on my deadman. Its beautiful dense wood and I’ve been milking every last scrap of it. I used the below scrap as my garter even though it is the checked end of the board. I ended up having to use a lot of superglue ...
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179 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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Today was one of those mornings that I couldn’t wait to get going. I got up a little earlier than usual, and went back to bed, thinking that I would get ‘one more sleep.’ But lying there and thinking about what I was going to do today was too much for me and I just had to get up and get started.
I had a good day yesterday, and got lots of odds and ends done in addition to getting my little sleds finished up. Once again, I used the photo box that Keith made and had some re...
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180 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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Any of you who know me know that I tend to be an optimist at times. You also know that I sometimes underestimate the time it takes me to do something. Well it seems that yesterday my optimism collided with my underestimation and I made the mistake of saying that my sled ornaments would be completed today.
Oh, they are cut and sanded. Everything came out really nice I thought and worked like it should. As a matter of fact, I found a great deal of pleasure in cutting these ornaments out. Wh...
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181 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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I woke up this morning and it was already light out. That alone told me that I had overslept. But there was a reason for doing so, as it was quite a ‘busy’ night.
It seems that Keith’s cold has quite a hold on him. What started as a stuffy nose and some aches and pains now turned into a nasty cough. As a result, he was up much of the night trying to get comfortable and find a place where he could settle, as every time he laid down he began to cough.
Of course, the cats...
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264 days ago
by Mauricio |
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Hello LJ Buddies,
Here is my most recent progress. I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking.
I previously milled the grove on the underside of the bench.
I cut a rabet 3/4” in from the front and glued on a 3/4” tenon.
This was cut by hand. First had to perfect the fit.
Laid out the design with a wax pencil.
Bandsawed the curve then cleaned up with a spokeshave.
After drilling the holes and cleaned the Jatoba with Acetone and glued on the tenon an...
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289 days ago
by Craftsman on the lake |
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Well, the bed head pieces are all cut and fit. I did a dry run of the assembly. I’ll need to tweak it a little with a plane but the fit is pretty good. The frame and center iris panel are walnut. the larger panels are jatoba, and the end panels are hard maple. Why is the center one walnut? Because of these woods it was the only one that I found was considered a carving wood on the internet.
The three inner panels are actually the width of the bed. The two maple ends will protrude fro...
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298 days ago
by MJCD |
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I’m starting this blog as a prelude to a Project posting – the project is a work-in-progress Outdoor Bench, based on the Fine Woodworking (FW) May/June 2008 article. I have acquired the plans from Fine Woodworking, and am now in the ‘build’ mode.
The primary purpose here is to detail for interested Forum members, the different woodworking that arises from 1) an Exotic wood – Jatoba; 2) an Outdoor vs. Indoor project;, and 3) some trials and tribulations associa...
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