414 days ago
by KTMM (Krunkthemadman) aka. Lucas Crenshaw |
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I got your attention with that title, so here’s the picture…..
I began to cut the hole for the vise two nights ago, last night I actually got it mounted. I had to use 3 layers of plywood to get the clearance I needed to mount it. (I’ll try and get a picture of that when I’m under the bench again. I’m not picking it up again if I can help it.) I had my 10 year old nephew help me mount it and here are the results…
I have one coat of BLO ...
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400 days ago
by KTMM (Krunkthemadman) aka. Lucas Crenshaw |
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I’ve been “done” with this project for nearly two weeks at this point, but I feel I should close this out.
Along with the bench, I felt the need to showcase some of my favorite tools.
I plan to update this blog with some of the uses for the gap that I can come up with…
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458 days ago
by Paul Sellers |
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Moulding the stock
Following up from the video film on the strength of these mitres. These are the steps I took to make this picture-frame moulded and inlaid stock and the frame itself. It’s dead straight forward using a pair of wooden T&G planes, a moulding plane, a tenon saw and a plane. You can make a simple shooting board with stop screwed to a board at 45-degrees or a proper one with removable stops. I took about 45 minutes to make it.
Mould the stock with the moulding plane. I...
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531 days ago
by Paul Sellers |
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Here is the second part of a short series. In this one I round the edges of the lid with a hand plane.
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731 days ago
by Paul Sellers |
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Ever thought about where you work? I mean, the space you occupy is your place of occupation and it’s more important then that you customise it to suit your personal needs. Even shared space necessitates that you create a working environment within the greater whole: a place of functionality if you will, that allows the placement of all things so that the positioning affords optimal accessibility.This is my personal work area at Penrhyn Castle workshop where we have the woodworking cours...
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140 days ago
by John Franklin |
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working on the legs, 8 4×4s lined up chopping dados with my old POS craftsman chisels.
router plane idea from Paul Sellers… http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=B_2a_FwjAgk&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DB_2a_FwjAgk
worked like a champ!
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206 days ago
by jjw5858 |
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What, no spoons you might be thinking…lol. Well of course not for it is time to get grooving with our Woodrights Galoot Library!
No matter what you do sometimes the wood has made up it’s mind on how well it will work for the job. In this episode the old box store pine was what I call a bit “Bitchey”,.....not sawing so well, and especially not up for me having an easy go of dadoing the inner sides. The tools were all plenty sharp but the wood was just a little tough and sappy this tim...
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736 days ago
by Paul Sellers |
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Beech trees grow abundantly throughout the temperate zones of Europe, Asia and North America. The wood is of very even denseness throughout the grain because of its relatively small pores evenly distributed through both the early and late growth of each growth cycle (annual ring). My first mallet was made from beech and most mallets for three hundred years would have come from the beech tree. Though that is the case, and beech is a hard wood, I find beech just a little too soft for making...
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735 days ago
by Paul Sellers |
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Oak leaves have a unique and distinctive leaf shape
Oak trees grow on each of the five continents and cultures at every level have relied on the wood and acorn, the tannic acid and the bark throughout the millennia. Great ships with oak bows and rudders crisscrossed the globe.
Massive barns and manorial homes came from the stems and crooks of full-grown oaks in every county. It would be impossible to catalogue the provision we have from the ancestry of the common oak.
Oak works...
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420 days ago
by KTMM (Krunkthemadman) aka. Lucas Crenshaw |
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I’ll skip the boring parts, like the glue up of the legs and material choice. I will say that I had intended to build my own designed bench sometime last year. I was sold on a certain author’s idea of an awesome Roubo style bench. I got Paul Sellers’ Working Wood, book and dvd set at Christmas this year, and it completely changed my way of thinking.
But you didn’t come here for ramblings, you want to see pictures…...
There they are, pretty aren&#...
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