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• The Craftsman's Path #45: Graham Blackburn Lecture - 15 days ago | 0 comments

  This weekend marked the opening of my woodworking club’s season. Our first guest speaker w...

• The Craftsman's Path #44: Using the Band Saw and Jigsaw for Rough Stock Prep - 61 days ago | 0 comments

  Previously, I wrote about the merits of using rough stock in your woodworking. In that post I dis...

• The Craftsman's Path #43: Moving the target in design - 77 days ago | 1 comment

  Recently, I was watching Neil Lamens’ interview (Part 1 and Part 2) with Wendell Castle. Neil did...

• The Craftsman's Path #42: Turned Walnut Bowl - 85 days ago | 3 comments

  I don’t consider myself an accomplished turner…yet. Though, I’m working on it! I like to turn and...

• The Craftsman's Path #41: Dreadnought Guitar - Installing the binding and purfling - 108 days ago | 2 comments

  Now that the channels have been routed it was time to install the binding along the back and top ...

• The Craftsman's Path #40: In design simple is elegant - 118 days ago | 3 comments

  With some impetus from a post that Chuck Bender (acanthuscarver) recently wrote, I discussed some...

• The Craftsman's Path #39: Dreadnought Guitar - Routing channels for binding and purfling - 121 days ago | 0 comments

  Well, I just got the body together – so, what else would I do but take a router to it ??! ...

• The Craftsman's Path #38: Dreadnought Guitar - Enclosing the body - 127 days ago | 8 comments

  It was finally time to close up the body of the guitar. Yet another fun clamping operation.Thing...

• The Craftsman's Path #37: Dreadnought Guitar - Attaching the top - 136 days ago | 2 comments

  Interesting clamping challenges abound in this project. In the picture you can see the solution ...

• The Craftsman's Path #36: Dreadnaught Guitar: Notching the sides for the top braces - 148 days ago | 2 comments

  Finally getting back to the guitar project…I’ve done some more work toward bringing t...

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