150 days ago
by John Fry |
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First I want to thank everyone who visited and responded to my last project blog;
A walnut sofa table with Jacobean influences
As always, your comments AND critiques are welcome!
I recently completed a commissioned wing back chair for a very petite lady. It has a lot of carving detail so I though I would post one of the carving elements as a tutorial because this was almost a “project” of its own.
This chair has ball and claw feet on the front legs, and the clients liked the unde...
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437 days ago
by Dorje |
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I spent a few hours today mortising the stiles (of the frame top) for the table. Lots of mortises to do. I drilled the ends of all the mortises first, since it takes turning off the mortiser after every cut to carefully line up the chisel with the score marks at the ends. Then, I could leave the mortiser running and clear out the rest:
One down, one to go:
There we have it:
Next up are the legs – mortises and tapers. I marked them the way shown below, but recalled seeing a po...
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482 days ago
by frank |
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Woods of Cellular Best
....in passing this way i thought to stop, for it seems that ere was the way has become my way, and in this passing of journeys across your silken mountain top, you called my attention to the valley below of wooden flowered bouquet….
—-and so i descended to their pastures of green, where played the children of adam’s bequest, toiling daily was one i found working the boneyards of forest serene, when taking notice of my watching he asked for one requ...
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508 days ago
by scottb |
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Had a few unexpected hours to myself this afternoon – turned that into some useful shop time – and got one step closer to having that old door look a little more like a table!
I put the big glueup block o’ leg onto the tablesaw and attempted to cut them down nice and square – with as thin a veneer left as possible. The seperating was easy, the fine tuning also went better than expected, just a slow and careful process.
I should have made 5 legs, as I messed u...
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527 days ago
by frank |
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Bench Dogging After Greene and Greene
And so we now move on to the getting of legs, and in all your getting, be sure to take what you can use.
Moving now to the fourth bay of my barn on the south side, I have a bay filled with lumber from past accumulated workings of wood projects. Looking through the rows of some stickered and some stacked lumber, I soon found what I thought would make some good legs for the table bench dogs. The pine I decided on using was left over from a barn door ...
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532 days ago
by frank |
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Providere’s Leg Update….
....and then some! Well this past week has been a busy one for me around here.
Started out with a storm on Monday and then we lost power, so the sump pump in the cellar went down and the water level went up….up….and up. Time to break out the gasoline pump and start pumping, old connected cape houses (1778), old dug cellars and bad grading can sure be a problem at times in the spring. What with water run off from spring rains and mud seaso...
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535 days ago
by frank |
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Providere, a Work In Process
Well I finished roughing out a shape of the last of four legs last night with the drawknife, and I thought I would post a picture of where the ‘in the process’ of Providere now stands.
1) Cherry backsplash, needs to enter into it’s hand sanding phase, starting with #120 grit….and ending with some slurpies….
2) Table top, needs to be worked some more on sides with a timber slick to get a better trueness….
3) End board...
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536 days ago
by frank |
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Legs of Beauty
....and so the progress goes on, in the continuing saga of this one, who is coming forth from the heart of the tree, and doing as befits her ‘being’ of becoming set free….
—-having legs of beauty as formed from within, she soon was noticed as having likened wood skin, till from the shapely posture of her bijou stance, i knew their was more here then meets first glance….
—-what i saw in her legs was sweetness of desire, and from this ...
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543 days ago
by Chipncut |
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Today I cut the legs to length, & Cut the mortises for the aprons.
I was setup my mortising attachment to my drill press. My Grizzley crossfeed vise was bolted to the table. I thought, why not use this when cutting the mortises. So I tried it out, & worked great. Once I got it all sqaured up, I drilled out all the mortises in no time at all. I tried making a short video,
so I’ll try embed it to this Blog. I hope I can make it work.
Here’s a photo of the completed...
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