2158 days ago
by Karson |
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Pumice and Rottenstone as wood filler.
When you go through the catalogs and look at all of the finished that are available, you will not see this tip.
They sell you Pumice and Rottenstone to be used as a buffing and polishing agent to bring up a gloss on the surface, but no one tells you about using it as wood filler. The interesting thing about Pumice is it is basically transparent so if you use it as wood filler it doesn’t contribute any different colors to the wood that it’s being us...
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1134 days ago
by CaptainSkully |
3 comments »
So, after what feels like months, I was able to do something in the woodworking arena. I ran over to MacBeath’s in Berkeley, CA and grabbed some quality plywood. Then I came home and drew up almost the entire clock in AutoCAD, measuring everything very carefully on the original plans with digital calipers. The point being, instead of gluing the plans to the plywood, cutting them out, hence destroying the original plans, I’m going to have a fellow LJ cut the gears out of the ply...
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1396 days ago
by FrankLad |
23 comments »
I thought “What if I coated the whole ring in cyanoacrylate finish?”
...and I tried it.
The rings have since been through regular everyday wear including dishwashings, handwashings and showers.
END RESULT: This finish is holding up better than both Waterlox and Arm-R-Seal. And, in my opinion, it actually looks better.
CAVEATS: Obviously, this would be difficult to do on anything but very small woodworking projects. It’s just right for these wooden rings, but ...
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1521 days ago
by mmh |
13 comments »
I’d like to hear your input on how to kill or prevent wood boring beetles in lumber.
When I receive wood, especially green, if I’m storing this indoors, I make sure to remove the bark and inspect for signs of wood boring insects. When I received a shipment of Texas Ebony, upon my request it was milled and had been liberally doused with an insecticide prior to shipment. I removed the bark and most of the sapwood to reveal grubs still alive. I removed as much tainted wood as p...
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1185 days ago
by CaptainSkully |
5 comments »
Since I can’t afford a bunch of quarter sawn white oak to finish the dining table right now, I thought I’d look for a project that requires less materials. Having just read “Longitude” by Dava Sobel, I’ve been fascinated by wooden clocks. Being a Mechanical Engineer, I also have an affinity for anything with gears. I found woodgears.ca few years ago and have been fascinated by the stuff he makes. I’ve also looked into building some kind of kinetic sculp...
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1707 days ago
by Mark A. DeCou |
3 comments »
If you found this page by searching for something related to Native American Indian Carved Walking canes, you might also like to see these finished canes I’ve made:
Apache Geronimo Cane
Cherokee Chief & Blackfoot Chief Curly Bear Cane Set
Apache Cochise Cane
Apache Chief Cochise #2 Cane
Shoshone Chief Cane
Indian Guides Chief Big-Red-Cloud Hiking Stick
This blog entry is for showing a new concept sketch of a carved walking cane design that I am working on so that...
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1509 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
9 comments »
This branch, found a week ago now, was a mystery for awhile, but then I accidentally identified it while looking up something about paperbark trees, which are in some ways related. Callistemon, or Bottlebrush Trees, in the Myrtaceae family, are – like many LA trees – native to Australia. My coworker and officemate, who knows about my log and tree-collecting shenanigans told me one morning that the city had roped off a big branch that had fallen. He saw it on his drive in to work.
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1926 days ago
by Chessnut |
3 comments »
Welcome back to another installment of the chess corner! Today’s topic are turning knights for a chess set.I would say the knights are the most difficult piece to create as you have to turn it, then carve it out of whatever wood you are using for the set which may end up being tricky. There is two ways to so this, turn the base on the lathe then carve out the head with chisels and rifler files or carve the head separately then glue it onto a ready made base. I personally opt for...
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1148 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
6 comments »
I got some good suggestions in my last post about what to do with this block that I glued up from mostly reclaimed red oak pallet wood:
One of the ideas I liked best was an end grain cutting board. I realized I had pics of each side of the block, so I made a block in SketchUp of the same dimensions, then slapped on textures from those pictures. It looked like this:
Now I could cut that up by drawing lines at the locations where I wanted the cuts, then using the push/pull tool t...
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1141 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
15 comments »
I learned what a Chinese elm is 1 year and 10 days ago, and blogged about it here. A friend told me she had read about a very old one that had fallen on someone’s car during high winds the day before. It turned out to be only a 10 minute drive from work, which is where I was reading the email. At lunch I headed over, found the crushed truck on the side of the road, but the tree was already gone. Since then I’ve seen Chinese elms all over my area, and they are wild looking, beautif...
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