76 days ago
by 3fingerpat |
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Today I squared off each end of the box and cut a base to size. Then I re-planed all four sides of the box and added a chamfer to the edges of the base assembly. I screwed the base assy to the box from below, countersinking two screws.Here is a picture before assembly:
Here are a couple of pictures after assembly and adding Danish Tung Oil:
After the Tung Oil dries, I will add a wipe on poly finish (Liberon). I don’t have enough wood left to make another Pen...
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76 days ago
by Innovator |
8 comments »
I have been turning a lot of bowls lately and my wife is finding it hard to find places for all of them in the house. She has had to resort to putting them on a rotation so each one gets some time on a table or counter in the house. So I decided to change gears a little bit. I have been working on some hollow vessels lately. Notice I said working on! So I cut up a rock maple log that I had sitting on my wood pile and I went to it. I wasn’t sure what I wanted the vase to look like but I ...
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79 days ago
by poroskywood |
21 comments »
Hey everybody, after a few personal messages here is my version of a how to on a Drunken Checker Board. I of coarse bow to the Chairman of the Board and pay tribute with beer. This is a Off-Checker pattern I call “Drunken Alice in Wonderland” The “serendipitous” nature of this piece is appealing in a far out sort of way. Here Goes…
So first I prepare the Material. I am using Hard Maple and Walnut both are surfaced flat and cut 1” x 9” x 14&...
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81 days ago
by 3fingerpat |
9 comments »
A couple of months ago I picked up a small board of Quilted Maple while playing tourist in Oregon. I didn’t need it but the board looked cool and thought it might come in handy some day. Flash forward to today and I thought I would make something out of the board. I needed a ZCI for my new tablesaw and figured the Maple would fit the bill nicely. But when I picked up the board, it had more bowing, cupping, twisting and yaw than I thought was possible for such a small piece of lumber...
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92 days ago
by Scarcraig01 |
3 comments »
This blog will follow my process as I build a maple set of barrister bookcases. My long range goal is to build a total of 22 barrister “boxes” divided into 6 units. To date, I have completed 8 boxes in 2 units. The first, is solid quartersawn white oak with frame and panel sides. The second, was made using mahogany plywood with solid mahogany trim pieces.
The plan I’m using, (although somewhat modified) is from plans now.com
I added frame and panel sides to min...
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96 days ago
by bfd |
13 comments »
This has been an off and on project for me for several months. I have put it on the back burner to take a few commisions and finally got around to working on the top. To make things easier on me from a time stand point I bought a premade butcher block top and added the aprons saving me the time of milling all that lumber. The first thing that I tackle is routing the tongue on each end that will support each end cap. I route a 3/4” groove on each end cap.
Next I layout the dove...
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96 days ago
by bluchz |
14 comments »
This will start with a question for the cabinet guys. I got 3/4” birch ply and 1/2” maple ply to make the cabinet boxes out of, why you ask? good question. I wasn’t paying attention when i place my special order for 1/2” pre-finished ply.well the plan was to make the sides of the base cabinets from 3/4” ply and the backs and bottoms from 1/2” ply. Anyone see a problem with this? I guess i can’t live with the bottom and the sides having different looks...
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97 days ago
by bluchz |
4 comments »
In the beginning! this is the MAple stump left i found at work one day. The guy i was cutting this timber for had his a bandsaw mil lso i asked him if he would saw it for me. It was much more reasonably than i expected. Here are the results.
I think there are 6 slabs 2” thick.If anyone local to me wants one or two let me know. the Pic’s are taken with some water on the boards to help show the variation.
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98 days ago
by Andy |
22 comments »
This box required a great deal more time and care during the final sanding,mostly in trying to maintain the edge of the ridges.At first I intended to keep them as crisp as possible…which took alot of time…but I didnt care for the look afterwards.It just looked too machine made,not as organic as like.I started out with a concept of sand dunes that I thought would tie in nicely with the grain of the Myrtlewood,but thats about it.I dont try and plan out every detail of the shaping a...
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101 days ago
by Greg Wurst |
2 comments »
Okay, I didn’t update this while I was building it as I planned. So, I’ll just describe what I went through on this build.
I tried several new things on this build; such as resawing stock to size and edge-gluing panels. I got to use my new tools and discovered how often you can trip a breaker with a drum sander that draws 15 amps on a 15 amp circuit. I also reminded myself not to back-out of a stopped dado cut on the table saw. I still have the remnants of a large bruis...
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