986 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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950 days ago
by scottb |
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One of my first ideas for this challenge was to make a “green” table – as in recycled, not painted. After weeks of pondering, and ultimately ignoring the problem of where to begin, and more importantly, what to use, I remembered that I had this door sitting in my shed.
It may have been original to the house, but has been collecting dust for the past 5 or so years since we bought the house and replaced the exterior doors – this one had dog door cut out of it and was ...
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897 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
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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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975 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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909 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
18 comments »
I now have a video-cam, so I tried it out with this Video of My Table.This is a first time for me with the new camera, so I hope you’ll enjoy this.
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948 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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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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961 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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Today I cut the legs to length, & Cut the mortises for the aprons.
I was setup my mortising attachment to my drill press. My Grizzley crossfeed vise was bolted to the table. I thought, why not use this when cutting the mortises. So I tried it out, & worked great. Once I got it all sqaured up, I drilled out all the mortises in no time at all. I tried making a short video.
so I’ll try embed it to this Blog. I hope I can make it work.
Here’s a photo of the complet...
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942 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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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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954 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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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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925 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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I now have 3 apron panels completed, so here are some pics of the progress. Things aren’t getting done as fast as I wish, but I have to take care of some spring yard chores, or else we’ll never get out to our cabin this summer.
That’s the trials, and tribulations of having two places to live.
Working on Hummingbird panel. There will be two Hummers, & two Roses.
It got warm enough, so I was able to carve outside.
I got some help from the neighbor cat.
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