4 days ago
by kolwdwrkr |
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When things become confusing, and I’m talking about the design aspect now as I have yet to begin this project, the shop gets quiet. My mind scopes the shop in search of something. A piece of material? A jig? Anything that can “push” me in the direction I need to go. Does my piece require the use of my leigh jig? Maybe I should start with the material instead of thinking about the process first. I search through the pile of wood looking for figure, something that stands out...
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17 days ago
by teenagewoodworker |
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Hey Everyone!
i know its been awhile but i finally have another episode of the Teenage Woodworker to put up! in this episode i talk about how i do mortise and tenons. so i hope that everyone likes it!
So I hope that everyone likes the episode. i will have another one out sometime next week. I’m taking the T-Chisel challenge and making a step stool so i figure that i will document that. i have some cool things to show. especially the finish! so i hope that everyone liked it and...
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19 days ago
by Texasgaloot |
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As of my last blog entry, I had received the hardware from Gramercy Tools, and I’m very satisfied with the quality of materials and service. The shorter blade necessitated a shorter stretcher, which I whipped out in a couple of hours from a scrap piece of cherry. Like many of my shop projects, the finished saw looks different from what I had visualized at the start of the project.
The pins that catch the blade simply epoxy into the handles, which are pre-drilled to the proper d...
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20 days ago
by Patrick Oughton |
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For my third course at the “Centre for Fine Woodworking” here in New Zealand, I decided to try “Bending Solid Wood” – a two week course with the project being a stool designed for the course by the instructor, local furniture maker David Haig. David also teaches in Maine and a few other places around the US and Australia. The school is in Nelson – a truely awesome little city at the north end of the South Island.A winter morning in Nelson.
Going into the...
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25 days ago
by JerseyJoe |
6 comments »
To all my fellow Woodworkers that use Autodesk Inventor.
I’m posting this forum as a suggestion that we talk amongst ourselves about Inventor. I am just beginning my journey with this drawing program and like everything new I have questions, idea, and I definitely need help occasionally.
So I was thinking that if we pool our collective minds I sure it would be a helpful aid to all of us that use this program and get stuck or just need to vent or share our work.
So I think thi...
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29 days ago
by MrWoody |
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Before I left the shop last night, I drilled a 5/16” hole at the inside of the car coupler. This morning I cut, sanded, sanded, and sanded some more to shape both couplers.
I cut 4 axles to length and glued one wheel on each axle. Now I need 4 trim spacers. They are 1 3/8” X 5/8” X 3/8” with a 7/32” hole and a 45° cut on one end.
Now I need to make four wheel trims. On the plan there are 9 dimensions and 2 diameters and I could do the layout.
But these are full size plans...
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38 days ago
by tooldad |
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I have a suggestion from one of my senior’s in my classes, also a LJ (tooldads_apprentice), to post podcasts of safety lessons as we do them during class on LJ. This would allow students to review or makeup safety packets if they were absent during demos. I thought great idea and am going to take it a little further. I am going to enlist the aide of our video production class to help produce the videos. Look out Wood Whisperer!.
Episodes will include, hopefully, 1-General Shop Sa...
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42 days ago
by teenagewoodworker |
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well here is the final post in my pull out trash box thing series. figure i’ll get right into it.
first i started by adding some 45 blocks to the place where the trash can sits. i had to notch it because that drilling would have been pretty hard without a drill press. i notched it a bit to much though. and i used brass screws. why? because they were the only ones that were short enough to not go through my surface. but to sound smart just in-case someone missed the bucket its good th...
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47 days ago
by teenagewoodworker |
12 comments »
well here is the second to last entry in my pull out trash box series. this will cover the rest of the construction and the next entry will cover the finished project. so lets jump right in. i left off with the rest of the thing prefinished and showing the drawer in it. just milled up the drawer front. and finished and attached it. simple enough. the drawer bottom isn’t in yet and you might notice that the color is a bit different. thats because the gel poly isn’t on yet.
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48 days ago
by PurpLev |
9 comments »
So I am building a box frame using box-joints.
I have my Incra 1000SE miter gauge setup with the stop block to cut the side pieces to length, and I’m all done with that.
Time to cut the box joints.
So I swap the blade on the table saw with my new (only used once before) Dado blade, I attach my homemade high fence for making box joints onto the Incra 1000 fence, and I’m ready to start cutting.
If you’ve followed the details up to this point – you might have ...
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