97 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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I found a nice 5’ piece of red oak at Home Depot that was a bit odd in hue, having more depth to its grain than what I usually see there. I had visions of turning some square plates, so I snagged it:
I really slacked off on pics of this turning. This is the only one:
In it, I’ve cut the end from the plank to square it up and remove the chipped edges. Then I cut 2 pieces off as long as the plank was wide (7-1/4”). Then I cut some squares of birch from a leng...
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300 days ago
by kewald |
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I’m a member of the San Antonio Woodworker’s Guild. The Guild recently decided to do a project for the San Antonio Museum of Art. The project is to build a bench to be used in the museum. The museum has several benches, so it was decided that ours would be similar yet distinctive.
Horace Staph, one of the elder statesmen of our Guild, came up with this idea and did all the necessary coordination with the museum as well as creating the conceptual design.
Prior to us gettin...
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343 days ago
by Sawdustonmyshoulder |
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After my clients chose a clear natural finish for the table, I used a natural-colored grain filler and 5 coats of satin Minwax Wipe On Poly to complete the tables.
It took about 10 men to lift and move it to my 12 foot trailer to move it to the church. The legs and stretchers were assembled using oak pins using the draw bore pin method. The table top dropped into position nicely and with a few screws to keep it from “floating off”. :-) You can never trust gravity, you know.
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379 days ago
by Alan |
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As far as making something and having it turned out like I envisioned it this rattle is the closest:
Red Oak and Poplar and filled with dried beans, 5.5 inches long and 3/4 of an inch in diameter at the handle. Finished with mineral oil.
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402 days ago
by Alan |
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So I have re worked the designs on a few of them and I am almost there with them to start making them en-mass for sales and gifts.
Need a bit more space around the legs and wings for painting. He is make out of red oak and I wanted him left natural. But this was my forst experience with making one of these toys with a hard wood and the belt sander scorced the poor thing. Need to work on my technique I guess as that isn’t an issue with the pine guys below. I use milk paints on...
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412 days ago
by Sawdustonmyshoulder |
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I found this “formation” on some Southern Red Oak that I am using to build the conference table for a church. Anybody seen one of these?
This was found on the part of the wood that looks like it was once an outside part of the tree and either the tree grew around it or it was deep in the crotch. The side of it didn’t give any clues to what was inside and only when the bark fell off did it revel itself.
Here is a photo of the complete board…
Here is a zoomed up...
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594 days ago
by frank |
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Madregah Tzedek
....madregah tzedek, a level of righteousness, given as ‘wood art’….
Thank you.GODSPEED,FrankRusticWoodArt
rusticwoodman@gmail.comhttp://frank.wordpress.com/
”....work smart, work safe, and live, to work the wood….”
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696 days ago
by cpt_hammer |
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I received from a good friend of mine several pieces of 4” x 1/2” x 4’ long Apsen boards. I have about 6 boards of the stuff and 1 piece of red oak about the same size. I was wondering if Aspen would be a good wood for kitchen cabinet drawers to hold pots and pans and such? I was thinking also about making a drawer organizer for the silverware. Any suggestions?
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710 days ago
by mot |
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Well, I procrastinated on this little project enough. Our two year old son, Mot Jr. (aka The Vandal,) needs a Christmas Gift from the shop. My daughter wants an iPod. What’s a guy to do. I settled on a plan from Lee Valley for a nice little rocker and started the build 2 nights ago.
I started by grabbing some wood from the rack. I chose red oak because it’s what I have in abundance and after an attempt to resist it’s downfalls, I’ve become quite used to working...
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