984 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
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Thanks to the creativity and hard work of Karson, Mark and Michael we are starting our first unique Woodworking Challenge! Karson sent the proposal to Glen Huey, Senior Editor of Popular Woodworking and asked him for their support in this challenge. Glen whole heartily agreed.
Karson's proposal was to use the cover project from February 2007 issue #160 of Popular Woodworking - Thorsen House Side Table - as our challenge. When we have the Summer and Winter Awards everyone builds their o...
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946 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
33 comments »
The last couple of days, I’ve been working on the tabletop. I mortised out the breadboards, & cut the tenons.
I kind of fell for the cloud lift theme, so I incorporated into the top. You might want to call this a sideways cloud lift.
I decided to try something from the latest issue of Fine Woodworking, They call it draw bored pegging on the breadboards. This is something I’ve never tried before, so we’ll see what happens.
Check out my latest Video, hope you ...
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895 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
28 comments »
Popular Woodworking has announced the winner of the Thorsen Table Challenge.
Before we get to that, I want to congratulate all of the winners—everyone who took part in the challenge and enjoyed the process, the laughter, the teasing, and the inspiration that we have shared over the past three months.
I would again like to thank Karson and Obi for this great idea. It has really been a lot of fun and we have met many more LumberJocks because of it! Thank you.
And now for the ...
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939 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
27 comments »
I completed my draw bored pegging of the breadboards yesterday, with success. Then I applied one coat of wipe on Poly .
I’m very pleased with the outcome.
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973 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
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So let’s see who is already sharing ideas and lessons in our Thorsen Side Table Challenge:
gizmodyne’s progress series
Debbie’s progress series
Karson’s progress series
Paul’s progress series
JonH’s progress series
dennis’s progress series
Scott’s progress series
John’s progress series
Dick’s progress series
Oscorner’s progress series
Fred’s progress series
Roger’s progress series
O...
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932 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
23 comments »
I decided not to hold my cards to close to my chest, as Scott mentioned.
I decided to show what I’ve been doing the last couple of days.
I couldn’t resist doing some chiseling on this table. That’s the reason I did a downward cloud lift on the aprons, in order to fit in a carving.
One down, three to go.
This is about 4 hours of chiseling. A little more touching up, & it’ll ready for the finish.
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958 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
23 comments »
Today I cut all the tenons, & dry fit the parts.
“A lot more work to look forward to.”
Now you can see the shape.
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940 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
22 comments »
Today I tried making pegs for the false shallow holes. I had alot of trouble doing it the way the plan instructed.
I would get chip out when carving the facets on the plugs. I’m using Walnut, maybe Ebony wouldn’t do this because it’s more dense.
So I setup my disk sander miter to 30 degrees, & sanded my 3/8” stock to a point. Then I cut to the hole depth, & tapped them in with hammer with a dab of glue. Here’s a short video of how I used my disk san...
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961 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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I took a couple of days off, but it helped me come up with some fresh ideas.
I went out to my shop this afternoon, & made a couple of Templates, one for the aprons, & one for the stretchers.
Now I’m all set to make parts on the router table
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951 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
19 comments »
My Walnut board was 6 3/4” wide, but it was dished a little, so I ripped it in half, & joined it in 4 sections for the top, I also glued some Ash to the edges.
The Top clamped up.Now I have to go out, & start with the breadboard ends for the Tabletop.
This is one of the Shelves, using my new Irwin Clamps
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