28 days ago
by Patrick Jaromin |
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I love my "new" drum sander.
I purchased the used machine for the purpose of sanding shop-cut veneers and inlay woods. However, with a 23-1/2” capacity, it is capable of so much more. I first cut my teeth with this thing on the side panels. Now it was time to glue up the top—and I was really looking forward to seeing what it could do with the 21” x 64” x 1” thick part.
Joining the top
I started by rough cutting and gluing up two 5/4 boards. Jointing an e...
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28 days ago
by Les Hastings |
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My first Grand Daughter will be here sometime in November. My Daughter requested this that I build this Walnut Sleigh crib. So let’s get this show on the road.
I’ve been saving this piece of walnut for a couple of years now or so, its 2 1/4×15” x 98”. I’ll be using it for the legs. After I finally got a pattern drawn that I was happy with and one that I could fit four legs on my one chunk of walnut, I’m ready to start milling. I milled the wanut dow...
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28 days ago
by kolwdwrkr |
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Now that the box was complete it was time to make the top. This part is fairly easy so I won’t go on into a spill about it. My first step was to cut the pieces to width. After that I installed the dado set on the saw so I can cut my groove in the edge to house the panel. After running my groove I set up the miter gauge again with the sacrificial fence and cut my pieces to fit the leather. I decided that I needed to put an inlay in the top too. So, I ran a shallow groove on the ins...
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28 days ago
by Les Hastings |
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The final glue up of the doors is done the same way the panels were glued up. I use a I” thick piece of mdf for a base clamping block. It is about an 1/8 narrower than the door is at this point. The styles on the doors are still wide at this point , they will be trimmed to fit the cabinet after they are all cleaned up. You’ll need two clamp blocks made from 3/4 mdf that match the outside radius of the doors. Then the glue up is done like the pictures below.
Once the doors h...
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28 days ago
by kolwdwrkr |
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The maple was outstanding! It wasn’t brilliant like a billet blank, but it was mine. And that made it near priceless. I pulled it out of the stack of lumber and scraped it a little. Took a damp rag and wiped it….brilliant! The figure stood out and begged me to make something with it. I took it to my miter saw, shortened it in length, and stacked it next to the jointer. Everyone knows as well as I do that when you look forward to making a project something happens that takes y...
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28 days ago
by PaBull |
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(I posted this yesterday in HR)
Today I was busy making the glass doors for the medicine cabinets for all the bathrooms in the house. I thought I might as well share the fun with you guys. First thing I had to do after I cut the styles and rails, was make a jig to do the coping on the router table. My router table is build in with the table saw, very basic. Here some pictures of that jig.
The pictures are not the best, I took them with my PDA, sorry.
The jig rides against the...
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29 days ago
by kem |
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The first step in making the neck blank is to make a scarf joint. This creates the tilt back headstock. I laid out and cut a 15 degree cut on the neck stock with the bandsaw.
After cleaning up both sides of the scarf joint with a jack plane, I glued the joint together. You can see the short piece from the cut is flipped over and glued to the back side of the neck stock to create the angled headstock. The long piece should overhang the shorter piece a little bit.
I made a little ...
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29 days ago
by kem |
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I have started taking a classical guitar construction class at Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood, CO. I’ll be blogging about it here as my journal through the process.
The kit that we are using is the KLC guitar kit from Luthiers Mercantile International . The kit has all the wood and hardware for building a classical guitar. It also comes with a DVD – “Build a Classical Guitar with Robert O’Brien”. Robbie is the teacher of our class. He teaches several...
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30 days ago
by cabinetmaster |
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In response to Karson’s wood find on cedar lumber, this is an example of some cedar lumber I found about 6 years ago. A gentleman advertised that he had some cedar lumber for sale. I called him and got directions to his place. When I got there the lumber looked like this picture.
The gentleman told me that he had cut the cedar 30 years ago and it had been stored in his attic. He decided to get it down and sell it. He took it out of his attic and put it on the back porch. But befo...
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30 days ago
by kolwdwrkr |
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I have always wanted to do this and do that in the craft industry. Toying around with several mediums has always been somewhat challenging, but I want to bring these “experiments” into my woodworking ventures. Things like leather carving and stained glass are only a few of these mediums. In 2003 I broke out the leather tools and cut a square of leather off of a large hide I have. I applied temporary contact cement to the back of the leather and to a piece of cardboard then lam...
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