17 days ago
by inchanga |
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I recently got a 6 foot length of sycamore which I cut in half in order to make a chopping block/table 3 foot by 2foot.
Even after cutting in half the boards were so badly twisted that I had to split them length ways in order to flatten and plane them without removing too much material
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The picture above shows the boards sawn ready for jointing and planing.
I first of all flattened one face on the jointer and then put them through the thicknesser to achieve a consistent t...
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85 days ago
by bandit571 |
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When the table was last worked on, I had two sides in the clamps
No, that isn’t a glue squeeze out running down the apron’s side, turns out it is a Powder post Beetle track. Sans Beetle, of course. I dry fitted the rest of the parts and laid out for some corner blocks. Gave me a chance to try out my new Miter box
An Atkins 11 point panel saw. Got the four blocks cut, and some holes drilled. Needed a counter sink the set the screws in
I chucked this one in the dri...
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86 days ago
by bandit571 |
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I spent part of today, getting a few 1×4s ready to become aprons on the table. They had been sitting out in the van for over a month, freezing their knots off. Brought them in to the Dungeon shop to warm up awhile. laid them out on the clothes dryer, in fact
One of the four short pieces is elsewhere. Actually, it was in a vise, getting a little trim work
Oh boy, a board with…..Charactor! Those are cracks, not pencil marks. Took a hand plane for a spin on the f...
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189 days ago
by Josh Hall |
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Check out my website for my first little blog post
http://joshhallfurniture.weebly.com/blog.html
Thanks
Josh Hall
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340 days ago
by tsangell |
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Through a series of fortunate coincidences, I became the owner of three nice, free sycamore logs. As the quick-and-dirty version goes: a buddy of a buddy lined them up for me, and another buddy retrieved them. I had not even seen the logs until I showed up at the saw mill last Friday to make some lumber.
I was pleased with the quality of the logs. They weren’t incredibly long, but they were straight and clear, and a good size. I’m glad my network of buddies rescued these fr...
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379 days ago
by Rick |
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The base has been assembled now for about a week.
But what’s taken time has been new discussion on the finish. After long planning to do an Arm-R-Seal or similar, my wife decided she wanted to keep the wood as light as possible. Since the oil would take it to an amber color, that meant either shellac, lacquer or water-borne acrylic/polyurethane.
After some samples were compared, we decided to go with General Finishes’ High Performance. It seemed to keep the closest c...
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391 days ago
by Rick |
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The bow tie layout for the outside of the apron is done. I also laid out for dovetail keys in the corner of the table top and cut the ebony to be used for the inlay.
I used a router with a 1/8” bit to hog out the bulk. The lighting in my shop is ok, but not ideal. I used this cap from Lowes with LED lights in the bill to give me almost “line-of-sight” lighting to the router bit.
I switched to a 1/16” bit to get as much of the corners as I could, then clea...
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395 days ago
by Rick |
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I started out with a bunch of sycamore. It’s been sitting in my garage now for a year. I finally started to make use of it.
A sample with one end shellac, one end Arm-R-Seal
My wife is in need of a desk, but we wanted something simple. She said she didn’t even want a drawer. So we measured, and started on a couple boards.
The boards had some twist. I spent a lot of time getting that out.
I tried ripping one board on the bandsaw, then jointing one of the rips. I...
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469 days ago
by davemoorefurniture |
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Hello everyone. I have been busy making stuff and have finally finished a video that has been almost a year in the making. I made this video to be like a commercial for me and my work so it doesn’t give any tutorial. I do have a series of videos to be published soon that are more along that line.
My goal as a video maker is to provide the viewer with an alternative to the typical format of woodworking videos; where a guy stands across the bench and talks at the camera, showing lit...
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513 days ago
by BritBoxmaker |
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This is the blog of how I built Celtic NOT. The design is one of a recent series of overlapping circle designs. Originally there were two possible patterns
These are the original paper models. As you can see the more complicated of the two had an interwoven line on the sides of the box as well.
I eventually decided this pattern looked a bit too busy and opted for the simpler of the two.
The box was going to be Oak with Sycamore and Walnut stringing. I initially tried making t...
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