1599 days ago
by trifern |
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I have had several people ask me how I turn a hollow form. I documented, the best I could, the process I go through when making a hollow form vase. I found it difficult stopping and photographing the process. Documenting the process became a process all in itself.
The first step is selecting the wood and marking the centers. I then mount the blank on the lathe between the spur drive and the live center.
The piece is then turned round.
A tenon is then made for mounting into th...
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1148 days ago
by BritBoxmaker |
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This is an earlier project of mine that also neatly shows one of the simpler box making techniques I use, that of the mitred box with drop-on lid. First we see the basic components:
On the left are the four sides, each with a 3mm slot routed in near the bottom to hold the base. The base is bottom right and is two layers of 1.5mm birch aeroply. The top is the last piece, top right. This particular one is a three layer sandwich; 3mm design, 3mm ply and 3mm maple (this bottom 3mm will loc...
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512 days ago
by Andy |
11 comments »
This blog will show progress on an ArtBox I am building for a client.
In September I received an email from a gentleman named Sean asking if I was interested in making a custom box to display his wrist watch collection. I said I typically dont do commission work for several reasons, but if he wanted to send me details I would look it over before deciding.We worked out the bugs and I agreed to make a box to hold eight watches.
The color of the wood and the grain were important as well as...
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511 days ago
by JoeyG |
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Well my shop is now a wreck, my eyes are full of dust and I had a blast. LOL.
Lets start with the box and grinder. As you can see I drew in the lines on the handle to match up to the box.
In the next pictures you will see the grinding process. I thought long and hard about making a video and decided that there wasn’t really a way for me to do it at this time. Maybe I will revisit the idea in the future.
I start at my line and gentle pull into the center. I then go to the n...
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966 days ago
by kolwdwrkrsgirl |
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Creating this project was fun, because it was a combined effort that Keith and I made together. I wanted a wine bottle holder for our kitchen, but after looking in stores and online I couldn’t find one that I really liked. So, thinking like a LJ I decided to design one myself, and asked Keith if it was something we could do as a weekend project together. This is my original pencil drawing showing the design I came up with:
Next, I came up with a design for the carvings we would ...
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964 days ago
by shipwright |
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Oops! began as an idea about outside the box hinges. I’ve always liked the “box on stand” idea but had never tried one so that sort of fell into place and one of the first ideas I had about box decoration was a “spill” pattern. I sketched these on a bit of paper at the kitchen table one day and it was left there.
Last December I restored an old ShopSmith 10 ER and had been wanting to see how good a tool it really was and what kind of precision I could achieve...
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1038 days ago
by Bob Simmons |
6 comments »
Has there ever been a time when you saw a wood banding design inlaid into a table, jewelry box, or picture frame and you asked yourself the question “How did they create the banding?” I did too. Fortunately, about two years ago I came across a video on Woodtreks and it was there that I witnessed a craftsman form Orion Woodworks that explained the process of this particular banding design. The following is my interpretation.
Pictured above is the look that I’m after. N...
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1424 days ago
by Jon3 |
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I’ve had a kind of crappy blue plastic borg sanding block for some time, and I’ve been lazy and switched out the paper. I don’t use it too often, but its finally given up the ghost and won’t really stay closed any more. I decided to make myself some proper ones with a nice cork backing.
Here’s the original borg crappy one..
The one thing I do like about it is that it is sized such that you can quarter a regular sized sheet, and they fit the sanding bl...
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892 days ago
by lew |
17 comments »
I got called up to active duty- substituting full time in an Information Systems Technology class. So this update has been sometime in developing.
Back in the early spring of this year, I had the very great pleasure of meeting the Mason Dixon Wood Working Club. We got together to learn how to make these Celtic Knot rolling pins.
During the workshop session, LJ Karson suggested that it would be easier, and less wasteful, to make a saw kerf for only the walnut strips and leave the origina...
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300 days ago
by Bob Simmons |
4 comments »
The 60 degree band saw sled as seen in the woodworking video is made from scrap. It took 15 minutes to build from scrap material. As you can see, it is used when cutting small wood pieces for wood inlay banding & parquetry.
What kind of band saw blade is being used? ...Wood Slicer – 1/2”, skip tooth, 3-4 TPI. It provides an excellent cut.
Can a 60 degree sled be used on the table saw? ...Yes, of course. In fact, my shop is equipped with one as well.
Why do you use ...
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