60 days ago
by lew |
4 comments »
I have had so many positive comments and feedback on the Celtic Knot Rolling Pin. Thank you for all of them. Many LumberJocks asked for instructions on how they are made- so here goes. I am a fan of “Cook Book” style instructions so if I miss any details, please let me know and I will try to flesh them out.
I thought it best to start with the jigs I used to prepare the turning blanks. Please note that I always over engineer everything and hardly ever see the obvious or the easy...
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223 days ago
by Woodhacker |
5 comments »
On the suggestion of a couple comments from juniorjock and dantheboxmaker, I decided to try my first blog…anywhere…ever. I don’t really know what I’m doing, so I hope this turns out.
Thanks to all who made the kind comments to my posting of this project. These are some of the steps I went through to make the “Frame / Panel Keepsake Box” at http://lumberjocks.com/projects/7096.
Frame/Panels:This box consists of five Frame/Panels (FP) – the top, and the four sides making the carcass....
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13 days ago
by Karson |
12 comments »
I had seen this vintage sleigh in Wood magazine some time ago and I had to go searching to find it again. It was in December 1997, Issue 101 I believe that I’ve seen it somewhere else but I didn’t want to buy the article without searching further. One of the new officers at the Woodworking Club thought he might have it.
He did and he brought the magazine to me and i scanned it and created a pdf for future use and to keep from cutting up his magazine.
The sleigh was found at ...
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278 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
16 comments »
You may not know it, but my little wife, (”Bairbre”), that’s Irish for Barbara. She has a wee bit of Irish in her blood.
But I think her heart is 100% Irish. You all must have seen the, Click here> Irish Claddagh, I carved for her.
Now I’ve decided to make her a Shamrock shaped box, for this years St. Patrick’s day.
The finished dimensions are: 7 1/2” High x 7” Wide x 4” Deep.
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58 days ago
by TreeBones |
3 comments »
I have been building a database of sawmills and put it together as a Sawmill Locater where you can search by state to find sawmills that provide custom cutting services and sell specialty lumber. Locate a mill near you or many will ship lumber if you find they have access to exotic or hard to find species you might be interested in. Please follow this link to search by state: http://westcoastlands.net/FindASawer.html
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150 days ago
by Mark |
10 comments »
1965 – 2003
I’ve been a casual, beginner-level woodworker since learning some basics in high school shop class, but now I find myself living on a farm with a small orchard of about 3 dozen walnut trees. A tree expert (easy to find those here in Oregon) told me they’re English walnut grafted onto Black walnut rootstock and were probably planted in the 1930’s.
So, Lumberjock buddies, can any of you tell me whether the trunks of these trees are Black walnut or ...
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233 days ago
by sIKE |
7 comments »
Got back on the project this weekend. The goal was to get the Miter Box assemblies completed. With some inspiration from Scott Bryan, I decided to make a modification to Norms plans. The Miter Box plans call for the box front to be enclosed by plywood. I decided to put drawers in place of the plytwood instead. I had previously completed the build out of the left box and went ahead and completed the right box.This is the first time I got to use my new Jet 90 Degree Miter Clamps which work gre...
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243 days ago
by Tom Adamski |
19 comments »
Well, after a little bit of tweeking, It looks to be working… (keeping my fingers crossed). This was just to be a proof of concept (prototype), but it seems to be working well enough that I’ll use it for the rest of the production and make a better one next time. Thanks to all for your suggestions.
!(Working router trammel)!
Sincerely,
Tom
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310 days ago
by Karson |
14 comments »
Well I started getting the wood ready. and I now needed to cut the core out of the center section.
The core then had the bottom cut off and i cut off two quarter sections from the top leaving a small piece in the middle.
I then cut the core out of the middle section.
From the top of the second core I cut a small piece off that was then glued back into the piece it was cut from originally.
The top section of the handle and the bottom was glued on.
And so now ...
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335 days ago
by Karson |
21 comments »
Well I went to the attic, actually surface area of the wood rack in the workshop and picked up a Bigleaf Maple Burl piece that I bought about 5 years ago on eBay. It came from the Pacific Northwest of the USA.
The piece had been water blasted to remove all of the bark off the outer edge of the burl and that leaves the spikes that are seen here. The block had been dipped in wax to minimize the drying of it.
I then went to the jointer (spiral Carbide blades) and cleaned up the edges.
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