117 days ago
by PurpLev |
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As I mentioned in my recent workbench blog, I had used inverted dovetail joinery to connect the skirt of the benchtop to the endcap. just like Arabian Nights, there are 1001 stories why joinery can get screwed up- mine were rushing + miscalculating + lack of experience + other. All of these matter not, and the end result is a misaligned, crooked, awfully looking, and unacceptable dovetail fit:
you can plainly see the tearout and large gaps between the mating parts, and the misalignment...
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121 days ago
by sandhill |
6 comments »
Here is a project which I had been putting off until I had the cash to buy all the stock for building a complete set of kitchen cabinets. As you can see it is a somewhat simple set of shelves that will go at the end of a cabinet run on the back & side to gain roughly 78” of cabinets including a refrigerator and allow the refrigerator to be recessed about 5 ½ “ to keep the counter as flush to the refrigerator as possible. The shorter shelf will hide the side of the refrigerator and face th...
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122 days ago
by John Gray |
19 comments »
I was constantly having a problem locating my chrome Stanley tape measure, never could seem to spot it when I needed it. So I scuffed up the chrome parts with sandpaper, wiped the tape measure down with Prep-Sol (paint thinner will work too), masked off the parts I didn’t want painted, and gave it a couple coats of bright yellow paint. Now it stands out from the pack and I seem to never have trouble finding it.
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125 days ago
by kosta |
4 comments »
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/3758156271_02842865a7_s.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2607/3758156499_d7026a8996_s.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2472/3758951460_c794c69bb7_s.jpgYo whats up everybody here are some pictures of my first refinishing project. It is a fish tank stand and I found it in my basement when we moved all the crap out the day before the moving truck came. It is about 5 years old it is made out of oak and pine and I am going to set up a fish tank in the exercise...
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127 days ago
by FrankLad |
20 comments »
Sometime over a month ago I had one of those “I wonder…” kind of moments.
I’d been wearing a Wavy Zebrawood ring that was finished with natural oil, giving it a very low-lustre appearance. The only way I could tell where the seam was located was by a small shiny area on the ring, where a small bit of cyanoacrylate adhesive remained.
Normally my rings are poly-finished, and the tiny amount of squeeze-out glue at the seams is invisible. But due to the way this na...
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129 days ago
by Andy |
9 comments »
This is the fun part!
Up to this point,everything we have done has been carefully layed out and measured.This phase is more free form,its where we can cut loose a little, and see what we get.But a little care must be used or we can wind up with a ruined box.That happened on occasion when I first started playing around with this concept a few years ago.Just go slow and you will be fine.
I like to mount my box to the “Moaning Stool”,to keep it from moving.This places it at a...
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134 days ago
by Andy |
7 comments »
The handle.
You dont really need a handle to open this box.You can just press down on the top,at the back, and the front will lift up.
But a handle keeps the finger prints down and adds to the overall design too.It can accentuate the linear flow if it is long and delicate,or it may add more of a whimsical feel to the box if it is stubby and rounded.And it is a visual tie-in to the medallion if they are made from the same wood.
For this box, we are going to make a handle, and cut out ...
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148 days ago
by PurpLev |
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July, and it was pouring rain here in Boston, MA. for the past week. go figure. (although today it cleared out which is really nice). but enough about the weather (as if this will stop us).
After completing the basic construction for the leg ends last installment. It was now the time to connect those with rails. The rails are 45” long with 2 1/2” tenon sticking on each side (to a total length of 50” – do the math). They are made of 2 2×4 that were jointed/plane...
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150 days ago
by Andy |
15 comments »
Three lid choices.
DO NOT CUT THE LID TO SIZE UNTIL YOU ARE SURE OF THE STYLE OF BOX YOU WANT TO MAKE!
At the start of this tutorial I mentioned that we would look at three ways to make this box.
We are at a point in the project,where we need to decide how we want our lid to open.You will need to look at each type and decide which is your favorite or the easiest for you to make.
I suggest following on with this tutorial and weighing the pros and cons of construction,before making a f...
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151 days ago
by Andy |
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Now that we have our lid fitted to the box,we are ready to move onto the medallion.
DO NOT CUT THE LID TO SIZE UNTIL YOU ARE SURE OF THE STYLE OF BOX YOU WANT TO MAKE!
This is where you can get creative.I wet the surface of the box with mineral spirits to get a feel for what it will look like when finished and then start laying my selections across the top.Contrast is what you are after,either in grain or color or both.
Example On Page # 1 of this series you will find a picture of Ra...
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