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| 333 days ago |
Zebra wood - 16 replies Ok – I know that most people would say WOW – what a friend, but a friend bought me, don’t ask why I really don’t know – but I received a very nice piece of Zebra Wood. This is a very pretty piece of lumber that I’d really like to do something with. However, the grain in amazing – it goes in a lot more di... |
| 337 days ago |
My first "on the forum" as I go project - 5 replies Ok – so I said that I was going to pick a project from one of my favorite books and then post my progress on line. So here we go. I’ve chosen as my first project a box from Doug Stowe’s book – Basic Box Making – A sliding top Pencil box. The first thing I decided about this project was that I wanted to cut the finge... |
| 339 days ago |
Treenware - 12 replies I don’t see much about treenware on the forum. Does anyone do treenware? I’m trying to come up with some quick and easy gift projects for this holiday season and I was thinking that might be a good option. I’ve googled it and most of what I come up with is books to buy or treenware to buy. Not much of the how to stuff I expecte... |
| 339 days ago |
Forget the pencils - who took - 18 replies my horizontal surfaces!? I’ve not had much time (at least by my standards) to tinker in the shop the last week or so, and when I last left it, I’m quite certain it was clean and things were in order. I went out last night and the place is a disaster! Every horizontal surface covered! Which one of you dasterdly LJ’s stole my ... |
| 341 days ago |
Morris Arm Chair - 5 replies I working on finishing up a Morris Arm Chair that is the product of a class I took this summer at American Sycamore in Indiana. I’m just about ready to put on a finish and have been considering my options on upholstry. I have never done upholstry myself nor have I farmed out a job like this. After spending so much money building the chair ... |
| 344 days ago |
The Handplane Book by Garrett Hack - 1 reply Just got my copy of this book yesterday. It was recommended to me in another post. I must say for the $9 plus shipping it looks to be well worth the money. There seems to be alot of good information. I’ve only made it through the first couple of chapters and have skimmed most of the rest. But long and short it appears to be well written an... |
| 345 days ago |
Sharpening - chisels and planes - 19 replies ok – so I’m getting more and more into the planes and chisels and the more I read and see and the less happy I am with how I am sharpening my tools, I have a couple of questions that maybe other newbies have (I’m trying to convince myself I’m not the only one not in the know.): 1) Is it necessary to have a slow speed g... |
| 345 days ago |
Chiseling woes - 1 reply Working on practicing two things before I take my novice handtool skills to a project that I intend to keep off the firewood pile. First I need to practice my sharpening skills. To do this you need a system and you need dull tools. My tools were oookkkk – not the best but they cut. So I decided that my second objective of the night was to... |
| 350 days ago |
Workbench help - 10 replies Need some design help and some advise on vises (isn’t that cute!). Sorry fellas. ok – I’m not a designer, but this is what I’m trying to do. I want to make a small workbench to use in my living room. I know I know, what about my shop bench. That’s the issue—it’s in the shop. I’d like to have a b... |
| 352 days ago |
My greatest sports moment was.... - 14 replies Ok with all the great sports on right now – I was wondering what “greatest sports moments” some of us LJs have had. We all have such diverse backgrounds and come from so many different places that I thought this would be an interesting look at the “other side” of our cyber family. So here goes. I was quite the so... |
| 353 days ago |
Chisel rack musing - 15 replies I’m home today from work because I fell flat on my face last night. So now my back is messed up again. Frustrating. Looks like I’ll be returned to reading books, etc. for a while. The good thing is that the hand tools I’ve been playing with I can use while sitting and so I can still fiddle a bit. No power tools for Betsy –... |
| 355 days ago |
pen turning --- nope not just like falling off a bike - 17 replies I’ve had to break out the lathe and pen turning stuff tonight. I had a co-worker ask me to make a few pens for a wedding gift – his and hers. Of course, I said yes. No sweat I said – piece of cake—- no problemo. Get those right to you. YEAH RIGHT. I would say it’s been three years since I’ve turned a pen. ... |
| 355 days ago |
Artistic ideas for using Cooper - 2 replies I managed to tear out about 20 pounds of 1/2” copper from my back yard this weekend. The previous homeowner used the copper along with 4×4’s to make a garden of sorts. It was quite ugly. I’ve been wanting to tear it out for about a year and did it this weekend. Now I know that with the price of copper these days I could... |
| 357 days ago |
Texas LJ's picnic - 36 replies Has there ever been a Texas picnic? If so, where, when? If not, is there any interest? |
| 357 days ago |
Need to fix a box I made - 9 replies I wish I had a camera to show what I need to do. I’ll try to explain the problem. About 4 years ago I made a box for a teacher friend of mine to hold all the calculators her students use each day. This is the first box I made that actually had a purpose so it was a new experience for me. The box is about 12×18 by 10 deep. No top. T... |
| 358 days ago |
tiny squirrels are hard to catch.... - 19 replies What a way to start a Friday night. I’m at home alternating between twiddling in the shop, surfing the net and watching the Louisville game. The PERFECT Friday night. Let my dog out. 20 minutes or so go by and I hear a funny noise at the back porch door. Look out——it’s dark but I see the outline of my dog—- not thin... |
| 358 days ago |
A couple of plane questions outside my blog - 4 replies I’m not into the course of thought of wanting or getting a scrub plane – I just don’t think I could do the heavy work – not sure. My simple question though is when you do use a scrub plane how do you decide when the board is flat enough – would you use winding sticks? I’ve always have wondered if when using a ... |
| 359 days ago |
Windows Vista ---- urg! - 7 replies I’m not into computers very much which is obvious by the fact that I just got a new one to replace the one purchased in 1997. So to say mine was outdated is an understatement. I was finally convinced to get a new computer when I could no longer load new programs because my operating system was outdated and I could not get onto the internet... |
| 360 days ago |
Magazine Cover - 35 replies Did anyone else notice the word “sexy” on the front of Popular Woodworking’s cover this month? Was anyone else astounded? It is a woodworking magazine after all. I like the magazine, but honestly, even wood finishing cannot be remotely sexy. I also noticed that it had to be a marketing genius who put it on the cover as Bob Flex... |
| 364 days ago |
I wish I were as good at _______ as I am at _________________ - 30 replies I’m having a dinner party tonight for some friends and as I take a break from cooking I was thinking I wish I was good at understanding/doing handtool sharpening as I am at making killer lasagna. So I was wondering what others have “wishes” for. Betsy |
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