206 days ago
by Bob #2 |
12 comments »
After seeing the neat job that MOT/ Tom did with his shooting board I was enticed to make one of my own.I am in the middle of milling some wood for small boxes so I will needed something to handle these small gauge materials.I am a pack rat and wood hoarder by genetic make up so when I dug through one of my precious piles of scrap I found an old poplar plywood shelf, a piece of arborite (Tom’s idea) and a piece of 3/4” fir flooring plywood.The rest were off cuts of oak walnut etc ...
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217 days ago
by Eric |
6 comments »
A shooting board isn’t considered a major project – or even a minor one – for most woodworkers. However, it’s something I want to write about because at this early stage in my woodworking journey, I’m learning something new with every endeavor.
Skills Learned/Practiced:
using a square (and I’m glad I invested in a Starrett)
using a block plane to trim up (flush) the edges
making a very thin cut with my dovetail saw (to avoid having to plane/san...
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219 days ago
by Eric |
4 comments »
My wife is out of the country attending a conference, and while I do have kid duty (age 4.5 and 3), I still manage to steal away from time to time to do some woodworking. Gotta love those DVDs that have the “Play Continuously” option!
So even though I’m supposed to be working on my bench, I get these ideas of things to make and want to act on them. One of them is to make my wife a little box. She has no need of a little box, but it’s the thought that counts. Well, t...
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229 days ago
by mot |
32 comments »
WayneC, Bob #2 and I, have had some conversations about shooting boards. The conversations don’t last long because we all agree with eachother. It’s really the death of conversation. However, some of the hand tool posts have netted some good questions on what a shooting board is, how it works, what it does and how you use it.
I put together a 15 minute overview of the basics of the shooting board. Please note, the shooting board is a tool that will have unlimited uses in yo...
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258 days ago
by mot |
9 comments »
I got a couple of hours down in the shop tonight, so I did the inlays on the horse.
I started by resawing some walnut that I had laying around left over from God knows what.
I couldn’t use the GRRipper here, so no controversy tonight!
I ran the pieces through the Performax to get them fairly close to size.
I made a little router jig to route the grooves for the inlays. I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to do this, but I brainstormed with Bob #2 and then deci...
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