909 days ago
by scottb |
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My cousin (first, once removed if you're keeping score) has a knack for finding deals -closeouts, and so on. He recently found himself at Sears looking at some routers on clearance - all former displays, out of the box, never used, selling for $31 a piece. Too good a deal to pass up, he bought all four.
Of course, he didn't need all four, so calls were made to try to unload a couple before he got in trouble with the missus.
Sure. I'll take one or two at that price!
Naturally he w...
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929 days ago
by gizmodyne |
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I Feel Boxed In
So without Kristin I headed to the shop. Big mistake.. I need to be double checked.
Mistake 1: Above you can see that I cut the dovetails on the front of the drawers. Dovetails go on sides! Duh…. Now they are decorative box joints. I will pin for extra strength.
Mistake 2: I did not chuck the bit tight. It slipped while cutting the dado for the drawer bottom. Here you can see the hole. I enlarged it for repair. (More on that later)
A view of the d...
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935 days ago
by Paul |
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His mother had sent a bed frame to me for repar and refinishing. I had recaned and refinished a bentwood rocker for her a few months back. Neither the rocker or the bed frame were quality pieces of furniture, but they were “sentimental.” The bedframe needed a couple of replacement rail hanger pins in one headboard post and a brace on the back of the headboard resecured and perhaps some glue inserted into a crack and clamped together. The four turned bedposts would be difficult...
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944 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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I was going to draw bore peg the breadboard to the top today, but I had to do some fixing instead.I made the tenons the same length as the plan showed, they should have been longer, so there wasn’t enough material. I was afraid of the peg holes breaking out.
You should have about 3/8”, & I only had 1/4”.
To remedy this I epoxied some nails across the ends similar to the torsion bar on a guitar neck .
After I was all done I thought I could have glued in a wooden...
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