1072 days ago
by BritBoxmaker |
35 comments »
I’ve accepted the mission and the secretary has already dissavowed all knowledge of me (for all you MI fans).Armed with my plans and two sticks of wood (one Sycamore, 50mm square. One Purpleheart, slightly bigger) I enter the arena of ‘The Impossible’. I feel someone is watching me. Is it the ghost of the great M.C.Escher or has the medication worn off already? No its you lot. Quiet at the back. ThreeSpeed, the mad professor is about to start. Here is where we begin
P...
Read this entry »
1080 days ago
by Crushgroovin |
1 comment »
Never one to let the moss grow beneath my feet and un-dauntingly ambitious I started my next project tonight.
I owe my wife big time for being 1) Amazing! 2) being very encouraging throughout the venture into woodworking. 3) oh and putting up with me for the 8 years I spent in an alcoholic stupor. She is going to culinary school right now to become a pastry chef.
Our first project was a decorative cutting board we gave her for Mother’s Day.
The next day she mentioned she would...
Read this entry »
1081 days ago
by degoose |
12 comments »
I spent a very happy day in my workshop today….mostly I jointed, thicknessed and ripped lots of timber… Purple Heart, Silver Ash, Silky Oak…[aka Lacewood] and Tasmanian Blackwood… I used an Incra TSLS 32 to rip fine strips for accents.. More woven pattern projects in the wind. It is such a pleasure to work in the new clean workshop… I moved the 3 metre machine around to make more room to play on the 2 metre machine… and moved the mitre saw… now I hav...
Read this entry »
1089 days ago
by emetric |
6 comments »
Ok so I have heard a lot of people talk about making end grain cutting boards, and most of them have horror stories relating to disastrous results from running them through a planer. I myself have made no less than 14-15 end grain cutting boards and I ran every single one through my Delta portable thickness planer with very little issue. Of course the last edge that comes out will be “flaking” off but that could be solved by adding an extra piece of sacrificial stock during the ...
Read this entry »
1096 days ago
by NewPickeringWdWrkr |
5 comments »
Progress being made on my clock project – Ironic that I’m having to continue my learning of patience on a project to make a time measurement piece. Check out my progress here to read about my exploits as I reflect and continue this project.
Here are also some additional pictures I decided to not include in the blog.Rear side of the face & frame assembly. There’s a gap between the face and the lower rail of the frame to allow the pendulum to swing freely.
Note that ...
Read this entry »
1111 days ago
by OregonBurls |
21 comments »
Hey everyone,I am in need of some help! I am writing a book called “The Burl Hunter”. I am looking for interested people who are willing to read as I write to help me out. I am not a great writer but I love to teach.
What I would like to do is get about 5 people to read and critique the book. Even edit my grammar. I would like 2 people who know about burls just to keep me in check and 3 to just read to learn and see how it flows. I need your input.
It is a book that will g...
Read this entry »
1111 days ago
by OregonBurls |
23 comments »
Hey everyone!
I just finished this Video to teach the basics of discovering good figured wood.Hope you like it and would love your feed back and additions.
ThanksGregOregonburls
Read this entry »
1112 days ago
by NewPickeringWdWrkr |
0 comments »
Okay, I took a break from the Slat clock to make a Spagnuolo Contemporary Clock and that was an adventure in mitres.
After taking some time to reorganize the shop and do a cleanup, I got back at the Slat Clock that I’ve been working on.
My plan calls for a 8 1/2” clock face and the material I had chosen is maple as I picked some up at a discount from a retired table maker. The score on that buy was that it has some minor spalting in some areas. At least I think it’s sp...
Read this entry »
1125 days ago
by NewPickeringWdWrkr |
3 comments »
They say that there’s nothing like practise to make you better at a skill.
My cousin’s wedding is in June, and I decided in my new wood working glory to make a wedding present for them. After consulting my wife, we decided that building a clock would be a nice gift. So I spent some time searching the project archive here on LJ’s, and around the web. Saving pictures to the hard drive so that I could go back and forth to choose without having to bookmark the various pages t...
Read this entry »
1143 days ago
by BritBoxmaker |
23 comments »
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...
Read this entry »
« prev
1 ... 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
next »
160 entries
