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"Hobbit Holes in MyWorld" --by RusticWoodArt #10: "Rived Quercus alba"

97 days ago by frank | 4 comments »

Rived Quercus alba ....as wood is rived, so a tree shows forth one’s inner strength, by his//her own choosing is man cleaved, by the criticism he//she creates…. —-show me a tree that hides from on-coming winds, and i will show you a man already wrapped in cerecloth, while i marvel at the hands of the mighty oak held high, i but stand in awe of that one who’s genetic dna creates within a critique of scars…. —-the trees i have known are gentle giants...

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"Hobbit Holes in MyWorld" --by RusticWoodArt #3: "Echo-Friendly Ways To Work the Wood'

123 days ago by frank | 12 comments »

Echo-Friendly Ways To Work the Wood ....your wooden soul, is but the sole of your sitting, and as all rustic tools of wood, your rustic spirit creates an image for imagination…. ....hand planning…. ....with a vivid imagination…. In this day of high tech, high price tags and higher yet soaring costs of what many think they need, to have a go at woodworking, along with all those needed add-ons….that one must purchase after the initial major pu...

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My Cabinet Maker's Mallet #2: The first two glue ups and finished shaping the handle

173 days ago by sIKE | 4 comments »

I made some good progress today working on the mallet. I got the first glue up done and the dado for the handle ran through.After the dado was cut in, I then proceeded to the second glue up.Between the glue ups I started working on the handle again. I used the handle last night to test my new Auriou rasp for the 29ths reviewathon. It did a great job, though learning how to use the rasp I did leave some deep teeth marks in the handle. So out came my 3M 80 grit sandpaper, and I spent the better...

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My Cabinet Maker's Mallet #1: Stock Prep

178 days ago by sIKE | 5 comments »

I have restarted working on my Cabinet as shown in an eairler project I have already made two of these and this one is for me. The Maple and the Walnut have been planed down to the 3/16” thickness, the mahogany is still a bit on the thick side and needs to be run through a couple of more times to get it just right, then it will be time to cut it to length then start the lamination The handle has been roughed out and I am going to do a bit more shapine in the middle to have it ...

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What makes a good mallet?

190 days ago by Karson | 15 comments »

People post blogs and projects about mallets. I don’t have one but I’d like to make one. Do I want one small and knimble (Brass etc about 1 1.5lbs) or a 3 – 5 lb clunker. It seems that the one’s I’ve seen shown here are either square with a sloped face and a handle or a round one with an oval shape. I currently use a blaock of Osage Orange that is a cutoff from a gavel that I made. It’s about 3” long and 3” across (round) and no handle....

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My "Starter Set"

216 days ago by Eric | 8 comments »

[Taken from my Adventures in Woodworking blog, August 2007] Before heading back to SE Asia, I needed to accumulate the bare minimum tools needed for woodworking by hand. The class I attended at Homestead Heritage recommends 10 tools in particular, and this is where I started: combination square set of chisels strong layout knife combination marking/mortise gauge small dovetail or gent’s saw tenon saw small hammer for joint assembly solid joiner’s mallet smoothing plane...

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Fun with clamps! Part 2

381 days ago by Buckskin | 5 comments »

For everyone who wanted updates as I go along on this project. Enjoy! Out of the clamps. An idea of size. A little re-design. Cut out. Ready for beveling the edges.

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Handplane Restoration #16: New Candidates

466 days ago by WayneC | 10 comments »

Today is Mothers day. To cellibrate, the family and I went to the monthly antique sale. and I thought I would document the day’s find. This antique sale is fairly large and makes for a good family outing. There is a little something for everyone. I did miss one item that made me wish I had been there a little earlier. It was a large, highly figured and very beautiful lignum vitae mallet. Such is life. I was looking for router planes and also perhaps a scrub plane to add to the s...

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My eBay Addiction...

480 days ago by Red Headed Merganser | 14 comments »

When I first started getting into woodworking, Pops showed me his two carving mallets. One was made from Osage Orange and one was a heavier, denser, more oily wood. He didn’t know what it was, but he said if I ever came across one to pick it up because they were pretty hard to come by. It didn’t take me much research to figure out Pops had a Lignum Vitae mallet in his possession. So I started looking into finding one. An extensive search found very few places that sold them...

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