 Scrap Wood #1: what is thatEvery once in a while I will run across an article where I see the phrase “Scrap Wood”, I’m terribly sorry but in my shop or garage, I definitely “DO NOT” have any Scrap wood. If it isn’t used for Making my wood burnings, it is used for my Christmas ornaments. So is ANY of you have any scrap wood, get ahoad of me and I will let you know where to send it. Thank You Jim Earl  From a 200 year old ruin to a workshop, a 3 year journey... #10: Building up side down.Yes, I do know that when you are building a house or a barn you normally start at the foundation, lay your brickwork until the first window and than well… it makes sense.But in this case, the recycled materials and the old walls are pulling the strings. Some friends decided that they didn’t want to paint their windows every year and bought these plastic ones. Some of the old ones were in good shape, and they didn’t mind me taking them. These windows would decide how big of a... 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I have focused most of the planning around the ideas from Bob Lang’s Book “The Complete K...  Mission Style Pedestal Table #4: Completing the top, putting it all togetherI made a lot of progress this past week. After getting the top together and cut to shape, I fitted it onto the sliders, and attached the tabletop levelers, to see how that would work, and to take a look at it all with the leaf pieces in place… success! The table sliders worked smoothly, and the top looks great all together. I then spent some quality time with the smoothing plane, raking light, and card scraper to get the top in final shape… some tearou...  My Journey As A Scroll Saw Pattern Designer #1035: The Start of Something "Fretwork"It seems that there is always that bridge of uncertainty that I need to cross between one project and the next. It is when the afterglow of successfully finishing one project begins to fade and I am looking towards the next. Fortunately, most of the time I already know which direction I will be heading following the completion of one project, for while I am working on one thing, my mind is usually racing ahead and planning on what is to follow. Sometimes though, I get so caught up in wha... From a 200 year old ruin to a workshop, a 3 year journey... #8: "Aut Viam Inveniam, Aut Faciam"Finally we could order the roof plates. And yes, this was 90% of our budget. It seemed to make sense putting the money in the most important part. Now here in the middle of Portugal the temperature goes from 45 (or even more) degrees Celsius down to almost zero at a cold winter night (we never had frost up until now). So a good isolating roof is one of the first priorities. It wasn’t that difficult to put the “half plates” up. With a little bit of help from my wife it just ... Mission Style Pedestal Table #3: Base to TopI’ve made a lot of progress in the last few weeks. 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HAPPY 4 YEARSGood day to you lumber jocks and jockettes, today is a wonderful day for me as i celebrate my 4th year here on lumberjocks, and im so very happy to have found this wonderful woodworking site, it has challenged me to become a much better woodworker and i have made some wonderful friends here, i want to thank all who have there hand in the running of the site and i want to thank all of you, all the wonderful wood workers who make this a wonderful place to come to , i am usually here every day a...  
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