22 days ago
by Jamie Speirs |
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Greetings My Buddies, well this week a got an interesting item brought into the shop by RozIt is an Edwardian Masters Desk. It looks as though great attention to detail was done by the original makerI’ll post photos and describe them as I go through them
The Desk belong to Roz’s brother in law who is a teacher at one of the local high schools. He has an interesting student that has some physical disabilities with his arms. Between us I made a slant/writing slope. The wee lad ca...
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23 days ago
by Oldtool |
7 comments »
For those so inclined, an instructional video for three simple handcrafted projects to fill an empty weekend. So turn down the sound and relax watching these craftsmen at their best.
Enjoy …......
http://youtu.be/rJ1TKkkF1ps
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29 days ago
by Grumpy |
11 comments »
Here is a home made lathe without the usual nuts and bolts. A brilliant effortPassed on to LJ’s from my buddy Andy.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG9R0q9QJQc
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31 days ago
by andyboy |
3 comments »
Assembling carcass and making base/legs.
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33 days ago
by Woodworker_Collins |
5 comments »
It is not complete and not where I wanted to be but I have to say its fantastic finally having a space that is my own with so much light and space and of course no more garden tools or bikes in the shop haha :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dufmI2sE4Qg
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33 days ago
by Woodworker_Collins |
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It is not completed but I more so just wanted to show the new space it is great to finally have a place that is my own :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dufmI2sE4Qg
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34 days ago
by Woodworker_Collins |
8 comments »
Here’s the link for the video finally http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_xrx1n2WgPs
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37 days ago
by jerrells |
3 comments »
I have a project that I am working on (to be posted in about a week) where I needed to enlarge a PDF pattern file. Have never done that before so I started out the very hard way. I would copy a section of the file, paste it into MS Publisher then draw some lines the right length and try to enlarge the pasted graphic to the size. Major problems were, time it took and the print were real fuzzy (pixel enlargement). Well after cutting the first several pieces I figured there had to be a better wa...
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39 days ago
by kbiniowa |
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I am currently making six chairs and the process is truly time consuming. GrampaDoodie’s (Dale Peterson) did an excellent job describing the his chair making journey in his Lumberjock’s Blog. I highly recommend looking at this: Lumberjocks.com/GrampaDoodie/blog . I am not going to reinvent the wheel here, but show what steps I did differently than Grampa_Doodie or Kevin Rodel.
Kevin Rodel suggested that one would construct a jig to hold lumber and then use a hand held router to...
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40 days ago
by BTimmons |
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A kind LJ frequenting the HPOYD thread noticed a question I asked about spokeshaves, and was nice enough to send an old one my way for about the cost of shipping only. Thank you again, kind sir.
Here’s how it looked right out of the box. No maker’s marks or model numbers, but sturdy enough from the look of it.
A little bit of surface rust. Nothing too gnarly.
The screw for the lever cap is slightly bent, but it still turns alright. Couldn’t find a thumbscre...
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