218 days ago
by Mauricio |
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It didnt turn out well, still licking my wounds. Here is briefly what happened…
Made a new jigAfter one test screw, I successfuly made one that had reasonable little chipping, I was happy with it.I actually cut the hub off a reject screw and reused it on this one.
Tapped the leg
Tried the screw, but it binds up after a little bit. I kept tapping the threads deeper and deeper hoping it would fit but it wasn’t the diameter of the hole, it was the thread pitch, and since the...
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1578 days ago
by Blake |
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I might have an opportunity to acquire enough stock (free) to build a workbench but it is Clairo Walnut.
I am not sure if a dark workbench is a good thing. I know it would be gorgeous but how practical would it be? I was only able to find one dark workbench on the internet. Here is a photo of the one I found:
Beggars can’t be choosers. But I would be tempted to build furniture with the walnut and wait for something else to build the bench. But I would really like to build a be...
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319 days ago
by Mauricio |
44 comments »
Hello Friends,
I’m long overdue for an update so there are a lot of pictures. I’ve made quite a bit of progress but the ending is not so happy I’m afraid, after reassembling the parts last night I discovered an error I will have to fix. The great thing about woodworking is that almost anything is fixable, it’s just frustrating. You’ll see what I mean at the end.
As usual, I’ll let the pictures do most of the explaining:
Cut the shoulders on the angled te...
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369 days ago
by Mauricio |
43 comments »
I think most of you have seen a lot of these pics on other thread but I’ll post them here for the Blog with more detail.
As you know last time I tried to carve my screw by hand, it worked but was slow going. So I built the router jig but have been having trouble dialing it in perfectly.
Here is the router jig I made. As you can see its a loose fit which is why I got a lot of chipping in the tips of the thread, I was cutting to deep.
This is what happened when I fed my hand car...
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110 days ago
by Mauricio |
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Ok folks we have some momentum going here and have made some real progress lately. We’re getting close to the end.
So the idea is, flatten the top, glue and bolt on the tool tray, then plane to tray to be coplanar with the top.
First I chamfer the dog holes, I do this again after flattening. I figure I want to avoid spelching when planning the top by chamfering them beforehand. I’m not ashamed to say I used a routah (Norm accent)
Patched a couple of holes from when this top wa...
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241 days ago
by Mauricio |
39 comments »
Here is my latest progress. This blog is too damn long, I need to remember to do these more often and break them up. Sorry about that.
Mostly pictures though. Questions and Comments are welcome!
THE WELL BACK:Trying to “Steam Bend” the tool well back straight. Notice the dowle I used to get the clamp as far out of the way as possible.
Hit it with the heat gun
Got it straight enough to joint one side and run through the planner without losing too much thickness
This...
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1417 days ago
by PurpLev |
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Yes. Finally some light at the end of the tunnel, reverse thinking, and this project seems a bit more doable, and even not much trouble at all.
Originally I tried to get the (2.5” hardened) nails out by using a cat’s paw and a hammer to pull each nail out of the 2.5 laminated hard-rock maple strips. I figured once I get all the nails out of the top strip, it’ll just free it from the lamination, and be nails free… one strip at a time, until I have them all cleared ou...
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285 days ago
by Mauricio |
35 comments »
Hello again friends,
I’m made a lot more progress since my last post so I will break it up into a couple of posts.
These are pretty straight forward, I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking.
Deadman: BrandonW gave me this piece of Jatoba when we first met, Thanks again Brandon! I decided to use it for my deadman. Here I’m using the Paul Sellers trick for a makeshift end vise, it works ok but I cant wait to have a wagon vise.
Very dense wood but it planes...
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263 days ago
by Mauricio |
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Hello LJ Buddies,
Here is my most recent progress. I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking.
I previously milled the grove on the underside of the bench.
I cut a rabet 3/4” in from the front and glued on a 3/4” tenon.
This was cut by hand. First had to perfect the fit.
Laid out the design with a wax pencil.
Bandsawed the curve then cleaned up with a spokeshave.
After drilling the holes and cleaned the Jatoba with Acetone and glued on the tenon an...
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282 days ago
by Mauricio |
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Here is a short update of just my work last night.
Laid out and drilled my row of dog holes 3” apart. Sorry, galoot index is Zero on this one.
I used a ¾” spade bit to make the wholes. Let me just say that I think spade bits are underrated. If you don’t need to make a flat bottom hole or drill overlapping holes I like them better than Forstner bits. The spade bit leaves a pretty clean entry whole and cut pretty fast with a lot less effort IMHO.
Drilled out for the second end C...
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