Well I’m nearing the end now, i’ve got a lot done in the last two days. not a whole lot physically but the details are really coming along good. i’ll get right into it. first i needed to cut a v groove at the intersection of the tongue and groove. i started by cutting a groove in the intersection area. then i chiseled away the waste to get a rough groove and finished it up with some sandpaper Then after that was done i put in the ebony peg. i will go mo...
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A beautiful but very “hard” wood. Lends itsself more to carpentry than to fine woodworking. It often took 45-60 mins to plane a 12 ft board. Screws, with pilot holes very often, striped the heads (square drive), snapped or simply reached a point where they stalled out. Found most effective method was a framing gun at +/- 100lbs. Have not yet attempted to glue any but will update this when I do. I suspect that this will not respond well to hand sanding and will require very sharp h...
I got my Stanley Bostich Compressor from SB a few weejs ago but have been unable to give a review of it due to medical reasons. This really deserves a read. Because I complained on Lumberjocks about their compressor, I was contacted by their Director of Product Developement at Stanley Bostich and asked what he could do for me to make thing right, in an email. First of all I was flabberghasted, I didn’t know what to email back to this apparent bigwig of this big company. He wanted to kno...
Last Saturday, May 3, my son and I had the privilege of attending the Highland Woodworking 30th Anniversary. Under the big tent they had master woodworking craftsmen of all kinds as well as vendors. There were carvers, turners, a timber framer, a guy hand carving gun stocks and so on. The highlight of the event was watchin Roy Underhill from the PBS show “The Woodwrights Shop”. I was even allowed to make a feeble attempt at Roy’s foot powered spring pole lathe. Of cours...
My wife, Penny, and I recently finished our first marathon. At least that’s what it felt like after attending the giant Artropolis Art Fair at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago.More… Giant doesn’t begin to describe it. 5 separate shows on 3 full floors of the Mart. 4 contemporary art shows and one antiques fair. The centerpiece is Art Chicago, featuring 180 galleries from around the world showing over 2000 artists. NEXT is almost as large and is focused on cutting edge and ...
Today my wife, daughter and I attended the 2008 Fiesta Arts Fair which was hosted by the Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio, TX. If you are familiar with San Antonio, TX you might be aware of the annual Fiesta events that take place in San Antonio all across the city. My family decided to attend the art fair this afternoon. While we were there two different artisans caught my eye and prompted me to pick up their cards so I could review their websites. The first artisan t...
I started this project by creating some rip guides for my skil saw. I glued and nailed a 1/2”x 1” piece of strapping to the edge of a piece of luan making after making sure it was nice and straight. Then I set the skil saw up against the strapping and ripped the luan. Now I have a really slick rip guide for sheet stock. I made a second one that is 4ft long to server as a cross cut guide. Plywood router bits; apparently a 3/4” piece of ply wood is not 3/4”, it i...
I just created a search engine plus wiki completely dedicated to woodworking. You can take a look here. I launched it about a month ago, and we’ve already seen quite a bit of usage. It lists popular projects and let you find all kind of easy woodworking jobs. Anyone can add comments too. Hope people find it useful, and please let me know if you have any thoughts. Thanks-Alex
Here’s my first use of my D4R Leigh Dovetail Jig with VRS router support and vacuum connection. I must say it’s a little more complicated than I thought it would be at first and I’m not certain how I’ll adjust for other thicknesses of wood other than 3/4 at the moment…but I suspect that as I use it I’ll test and try to do things in a new way. I still have some adjusting since I had trouble with the VRS router support/vacuum connection. It wasn’t as...
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