| This blog is written by Dick Cain | 78 entries so far |
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Building a Deck from my SketchUp plan! #4: The Grand Finale!
Well folks! It’s finally done! This took a little longer than expected, because of th...
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Building a Deck from my SketchUp plan! #3: Deck in constuction stage!
Well, we got the permit, & finally started building it. The demolishing of the old porch di...
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Building a Deck from my SketchUp plan! #2: Some modifications to the deck plan!
I’ve made a few minor changes to the deck plan. We should start building it next week.~~...
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Building a Deck from my SketchUp plan! #1: SketchUp drawing of a front (Deck)!
I’ve been really busy trying to learn SketchUp. My Son needs a new front porch on his ho...
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Drawing bookshelf plan #1: Trying to learn SketchUp!
About 3 days before the bookcase challenge, I thought I’d try my luck at drawing a plan for...
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Carving tips! #1: What a carving looks like before, & after applying the finish!
A person can spend a lot of time on a carving, but after the final cut with your chisel, you ...
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An Invitation to all Lumberjocks, to our Anniversary Party!
Barb, & I are celebrating Our 57th Wedding Anniversary today, & WE ARE HAVING A BIG PART...
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Shamrock shaped box! #2: It's all finished now.
I guess I’ve been poking along on this project long enough now. Here are some more pictu...
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Shamrock shaped box! #1: A wee bit of a taste of this box!
You may not know it, but my little wife, (”Bairbre”), that’s Irish for Barbara....
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My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards #8: The Box is done, BUT!!
I completed the box yesterday, but I’ve been struggling to get my camera to work. All of...
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My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards #7: Carving Roses wasn't very Rosie!
The first Rose handle I carved, didn’t give me any trouble, but I wasn’t satisfied...
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My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards #6: Carving drawer handles
Yesterday afternoon, I shifted my gears into the carving mode I decided to make drawer handles...
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My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards #5: Making the drawer
This afternoon I went out, started working on the drawer. It sure felt good to be back in the sho...
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My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards #4: A few more pictures
I finished sanding the exterior portion of the box down to 320 grit. Then applied one coat of ...
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My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards #3: More of My "Not just any box"
Well I got a little more accomplished. I did a little design change today, I removed what I ca...
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My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards #2: The start of my, "Not any kind of box"
I said I wasn’t going to enter, but I opened up the latest issue of “Woodworkers Jour...
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My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards #1: I finally decided to enter!
I wasn’t planning on entering, but yesterday the bug bit me. I usually like to use the m...
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Cain Guitar #2: A live performance of "Sleepwalk"
Hi!I have previously submitted a soundtrack of the Cain Guitar. The other day My Son brought o...
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Events at our cabin! #9: Another 360 Degrees!!
These are from another view point. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You ma...
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Events at our cabin! #8: The Cain Peninsula, a 360 degree view.
I’ve been fiddling around, & organizing my photos. I took a little break, & made th...
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Events at our cabin! #7: A cute Bear Cub near our cabin.
I’m sorry, I haven’t been very active lately, I’ve been familiarizing myself wi...
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Something from the past!!
This is a knife I made almost 60 years ago. _Bob, reminded me of this in his metal working blog. ...
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My new iMac!!
Hi,I’ve been playing around with my new” iMac. This will send you to my forum topic, ...
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Events at our cabin! #6: Logging operation, not by choice!!
Barb was feeling better last Thursday, so we took a jaunt up to our cabin for the day. We new ...
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A Big Thank You from Barb
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This is what we see from our gazebo swing.
When I made the slide show> of the gazebo project, I forgot to show these pictures, so I’ll...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #14: A Video of my table entry
I now have a video-cam, so I tried it out with this Video of My Table.This is a first time for me...
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Making a Carved Fireplace Mantel #2: Applying Brazilian Cherry inlay on the top
Now that the Challenge 01 Table is done, I started working on the mantel again. Also to get the ...
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I just acquired some Brazilian Cherry
My son works for a company that installs, & also refinishes wood flooring. They presently in...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #13: Still carving away !! Getting close to the end.
I now have 3 apron panels completed, so here are some pics of the progress. Things aren’t g...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #12: Showing some more of my cards !
I decided not to hold my cards to close to my chest, as Scott mentioned. I decided to show wha...
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Editing your Videos !
I may not be able to enter the shop tour challenge. I have such a busy schedule. LOL MsDebbie ...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #11: A peek at the finished tabletop!
I completed my draw bored pegging of the breadboards yesterday, with success. Then I applied one ...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #10: Making pegs my way !
Today I tried making pegs for the false shallow holes. I had alot of trouble doing it the way the...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #9: An Ounce of Prevention !
I was going to draw bore peg the breadboard to the top today, but I had to do some fixing instead...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #8: Working my way down !!
Today I cut & fitted the shelves. Dry assembled the whole table. Now I’ve got a lot ...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #7: Going for the Top !! Also pegging joints info.
The last couple of days, I’ve been working on the tabletop. I mortised out the breadboards,...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #6: Joining the Table Top, & Shelves
My Walnut board was 6 3/4” wide, but it was dished a little, so I ripped it in half, & ...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #5: Another Wee Bit of a Peek !!
Today I removed a little excess weight with my router. More to come in the future.
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Thorsen Table Challenge #4: The Dry Fit !
Today I cut all the tenons, & dry fit the parts. “A lot more work to look forward to...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #3: Mortising the legs
Today I cut the legs to length, & Cut the mortises for the aprons. I was setup my mortisin...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #2: Take a Little Peek.
I took a couple of days off, but it helped me come up with some fresh ideas. I went out to my ...
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Thorsen Table Challenge #1: Getting a start
Well I finally got started on the project today. I dug out some Black Ash boards, & ripped...
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Getting back to the shop #4: Making a Rustic Clock
On #3 of this series I flattened out a slice from a Birch stump. I went on & completed the j...
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Come, and Celebrate Our 56th Wedding Anniversary
We invite our Lumberjock Family to share this “Special Day” with us. Lumberjocks ...
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The Railroad Tie Story !
You may have noticed that many of my projects have been made from Black Walnut from railroad ties...
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Obi's going to be top dog today !!
Before this day is over, Obi is going into the lead, so I won’t have to look behind me any...
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Getting back to the shop #3: I'm changing my tune about my pin router
Remember yesterday, I was thinking about getting rid of that big old Stanley Pin Router. After lo...
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Getting back to the shop #2: My report on yesterdays excursion to my shop.
Once I got out there, I shook off the shakes immediately. I commenced to install my new Triton...
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Getting back to the shop #1: Trying my best to get back in my shop !!
I’ve been spending to much time on my PC. So I’m kicking my butt out to my shop, &...
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Teddy Bear Bank
I made a Teddy Bear like this for a Wood Magazine Toy Contest, a few years back. I made some more...
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Events at our cabin! #5: Are You Waiting for Summer ?
Looking out at the weather this morning got me longing to see my wildlfe friends again. Her...
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Happy Lumberjocks Anniversary
I just noticed that Martin has an Anniversary. I made him a card.
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I got me a new Birthday toy
Ever since I seen the review on the Triton Routers, I just had to get one. What’s a better ...
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Thanks for all the nice Birthday comments.
It was fun sharing my Birthday with all of you. Now I have to get down too business until next ye...
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What's a Lumberjock supposed to do on his 75th Birthday ?
YUP!! Today is the big day, Any Suggestions ?
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Cain Guitar #1: Slide Guitar Music Solo
This is the first project I posted on Lumberjocks. I’d like you to hear the sweet music my ...
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Making A Tag Alder Chair.
After finish our deck railing, I made this small chair for my Sweety. It’s dimensions are j...
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Events at our cabin! #3: Carving a Bear on a Tamarack Post.
In the fall of 2005, I built a small deck area between our cabin, & a little multi- purpose t...
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"we should all be equal.
I just made this comment on another blog, but I think the other blog has been all wrung out, so I...
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.
Here’s a good one for you home re-modelers out there.My Son recently talked to a friend of ...
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Hi! All You You Lumberjock Addicts'
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think I’ve turned into a complete Lumberjoc...
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Man! is this place getting busy, or what ?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m having a hard time keeping up. Especially...
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A Beautiful Floor !!
I want to show everybody how proud I am of the accomplishments of one of my Sons’. He works...
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T shirt People !!
We just received the batch of T shirts we ordered. My wife thought Black would be a nice color. ...
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A Great Deal, or What ? = One Happy Guy !!
One late Sunday Afternoon while visiting our son who lives in Hot Springs AR. My wife, and I took...
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Events at our cabin! #4: Building a New Deck, 1988
Hi, I’m trying something new today. I’m trying to run a slideshow.It shows the constr...
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Lumberjocks T-shirt Award
Thanks to Martin, I’m now a proud owner of a classy new Lumberjocks T-shirt At the reque...
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A White New Year !! 1/1/2007
When I awoke yesterday morning, I thought I was dreaming. It sounded like rain drops on our roof....
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Reminiscing about snow again!
Yesterday while talking about snow, & added my carved moose antler project, it was brought up...
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We're still waiting for Winter !!
The Best of Holiday Greetings, from Our House to Yours Living in northern Minnesota all of our...
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Before I start a new project. 12/17/2006
Most of time when I’m going to start a new project. The first thing I do is search for pict...
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Events at our cabin! #1: A Squirrel Tail (Tale) 12/06/2006
A mother Squirrel took over one of our bird houses, & had Three kittens. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
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Dust Hood 12/06/2006
I finally did some wood-turning yesterday, & my dust shield worked great. It can be slid to f...
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Things to do 12/04/2006
I still haven’t completed the workshop reorganization project. There seems to be so many di...
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Revamping my Dust Collector ductwork
Hi,Today, 6/21/2007, I changed the name on this blog, so members could find it easier. Things ...
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Events at our cabin! #2: Shared Beauty 11 - 17 - 2006
When people view some of my projects. They always mention some of the beautiful background scener...
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Making a Carved Fireplace Mantel #1: Getting Started
Hi,This is my first attempt at Blogging. I’ve been planning on building a fireplace mantel ...
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Blog Series
- Building a Deck from my SketchUp plan! - 4 parts
- Cain Guitar - 2 parts
- Carving tips! - 1 part
- Drawing bookshelf plan - 1 part
- Events at our cabin! - 9 parts
- Getting back to the shop - 4 parts
- Making a Carved Fireplace Mantel - 2 parts
- My 2008 "Not Just Any Box" Winter Awards - 8 parts
- Shamrock bandsawn box! - 0 parts
- Shamrock shaped box! - 2 parts
- Thorsen Table Challenge - 14 parts
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