Sketchup Models #4: Candle holder
This is the candle holder center piece featured in woodsmith magazine. You’ve seen this many time on lumberjocks. If you haven’t made one yet, like me, here is the sketchup to help you on your way.
2 Blanket Chests for my daughters #1: Initial Designs
These are the initial designs for 2 Hope chest for my daughters for this christmas. Main wood will be walnut, highlights are either bloodwood or purpleheart depending on the daughter. This is taken from a design from Woodsmith #32. You can see a finished version finished by strube1369 A couple key differences that I am going to be doing different. I will be mitering the corners of the box, and using dovetail keys of the contrasting wood(it is not shown in the design). I also pla...
Checkerboard End Grain Cutting Board #1: Skecthup Model....ya, you heard me right...of a cutting board
I know what your thinking…this lunatic made a Sketchup model of a cutting board? Can’t he just wing it? Ya sure, I have made quite a few cutting boards with and without plans. The few I have done plans for were in Autodcad, to work out the design details, but this is the first time I have used SU for planning a cutting board. I wanted to be able to know exactly how much material I was going to need, and how it was going to have to be glued up so it would come out exactly as I want...
Cutting Faces in Sketchup
I have just had an ahaaaaaa moment in sketchup and thought I would share it with everyone… I have always had issues cutting faces in sketchup, I have followed several tutorials and just never seem to get the grip…Today I have found a simple way to do this, that I have not seen before, but Maybe DaveR has already talked about…. Many of the tutorials I have seen involve trying to draw a new plane and getting it lined up with the axes that you want to cut and all that rig...
Sketchup Models of Shop Furniture for a Small Shop #1: Mobile Shelves, Expandable Assembly Table and Lumber & Sheet Goods Cart
I have a small shop, about 200SF. It’s not as small as it once was, about 90SF, and it’s not as big as what I hope to have some day, about 600SF. To keep from climbing over things and make it easier to move things around to accomdate the operation of the moment, I thought I would adopt the “everything on wheels” strategy and double up what tools I could in single cabinets. So, to make sure that I had the right designs and that everything would fit in the shop and ...
The Ten Minute Arbor
My brother asked me for a design for an arbor to build as a surprise for his mother-in-law. I zipped this out in a few minutes as kind of a seat of the pants thing. Don’t know if it’s any good but I thought I’d share. FWIW, I used a fairly wide field of view and Two Point Perspective for this. Does it look like the posts are farther apart at the top than at the bottom? Not supposed to.
Countersinking Holes
I did this little video clip for someone who was working too hard to draw these.
