155 days ago
by WoodworkersResource |
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In talking with some of my woodworking friends on this subject, I learned that most were not comfortable with kids being in their shops because of safety concerns. Granted, there are extra precautions that must be taken when kids are present, but don’t let this keep you from introducing woodworking to your kids, grandchildren, or even the kids up the street. And if you’re a parent or grandparent who doesn’t have a lot of knowledge around woodworking, but your kids have an ...
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169 days ago
by WhiskeyWaters |
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Saw a wild video the other week on MAKE: Magizine’s blog – I’m gonna try to make this at work.
So far, this is my plan:
I’ve got base built, and next will be creating the removable instrument inserts – I have two maracas, a tambourine and one snare.
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257 days ago
by WhiskeyWaters |
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Finished, no pictures yet.
Joints look strong, the kids did a great job getting ‘em just so.
I’m going to add some braces for strength (it racks? is that it when it shimmies if you push it around?), but before they get attached I’m routing the names in the braces, so they always know who worked on it.
I’m a storyteller, so I’ll give you a set-up and a punch line one of the kids played on me.
Me: How you think we should paint this, buddy?
Kid: It d...
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263 days ago
by WhiskeyWaters |
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I’m beat ladies and gentleman. Whupped. Snowed today (gives away my region of the US). After going sledding and doing doughnuts in the municipal police parking lot during lunch, I got back to work and taught/learned some woodworking.
All the supports are finished, and the dadoes and lap joints are cut out. For the lap joints, (and dadoes) I set the depth on the circ saw and made a number of cuts through the waste wood. Then I took a chisel with some of the children and malleted ...
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280 days ago
by itsme_timd |
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Had an excellent Christmas this year, wanted to share some neat stories with LJ’ers.
My nephews come over for Christmas from MS. They are 3 of my favorite boys ever – and 3 of the most rambunctious, too… Our living room looked like Santa open a Southern Branch to his toy shop, t was ridiculous.
However, after all the toys were opened, games were checked out, batteries were installed, etc. I decided to duck out to the garage and do a little more work on a jewelry box ...
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302 days ago
by cheller |
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Last weekend I made my trek to New Jersey. Friday night was spent enjoying magic tricks, games, and conversation, and a nice long sanding session in my hotel room. Saturday morning was wrestling practice – think room full of testosterone. Saturday afternoon was project time. Our construction team was my nephew, his friend, also 6, and me.
First step was gluing up the walls of the house. The boys each took responsibility for an end wall. While making lunch earlier we had been ta...
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323 days ago
by cheller |
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A couple of class nights (adult ed open workshop) provided me with the time to mill the necessary lumber for the houses. I was also able to cut the 45 degree angles on the roof parts and the top edge of the walls. The remainder of the work to date has been done with my scroll saw, a drill, hand saws, chisels and planes.
Here’s an early dry fit. The ridge beam fits into a slot in the gable ends, and is notched to lock the ends together. The walls are waiting to be cut down leaving...
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324 days ago
by cheller |
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Each year on the first weekend of December I travel to New Jersey to spend the weekend with my nephew, who is now 6. We go swimming at the hotel, have lunch out, and work on a project. The first project, when he was 2, was a set of shelves for the very small first floor bathroom of their house. He didn’t help a lot with that, although he was very sure to make sure that I fixed the bathroom door which had to be removed from the hinges to provide enough room to work in the tiny bathroo...
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383 days ago
by Chris Davis |
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Just for fun. I found this old commercial that my brother and I did back in 1986. I’m the oldest one with the southern accent and the high pitched voice. My brother was the cute one. Notice I said was. My brother builds cabinets too, but works for Falcon Jet building high end interiors for private jets. I should post some of his work. WOW, awesome stuff.
I was about 12 then and still playing in the saw dust. It was another 3-4 years before I started making anything besides swords...
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