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Location: Raymond, MS
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I'm a hospital pharmacist with about 20 years of woodworking experience.
Other interests include guitar, cooking, and photography.
Although I have done cabinet work in the past, circumstances (and "shop" space) had limited me primarily to woodturning in recent years. However, a new place in the country and a brand-new shop building have really opened some opportunities. It's time to have some fun!
-- Robert from Raymond, MS. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not a practice, but a habit." - Aristotle
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| replied on | Worst than Jewelry in the shop, Cell Phones, while working! | 10 days ago |
| replied on | pls believe Chinese plywood | 11 days ago |
| replied on | Congrats Woodwhisperer! | 12 days ago |
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| added project | Box Organizer | 26 days ago |
| commented on | Clamp Rack | 28 days ago |
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| added project | A Tale of Two Stools | 42 days ago |
| commented on | Jointer Fence for Router Table | 115 days ago |
| commented on | Jointer Fence for Router Table | 116 days ago |
| added project | Jointer Fence for Router Table | 116 days ago |
| started topic | Discount drawer hardware website? | 118 days ago |
| commented on | Go Bowls | 148 days ago |
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Well, it’s finally done. The workbench base is done and has been mated to the top. I gave the finished base three coats of finish. The first was equal parts turpentine, BLO, & spar urethane. The next two were just BLO & spar ur...
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Hooray! The final glue-up of all the pieces is finished, and boy am I tired! The last post left me sharpening my chisel and getting ready to square up the 28 mortises. This was indeed as difficult as I feared. It’s not that squaring a ...
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Sometimes you can stare at a problem with a project for days (or longer) before a solution comes to you. In my case, the solution often comes at the oddest times and places. In this case, I was sitting at work performing a calculation when the l...
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Building this workbench has made me rethink a lot of things. Joinery on this scale is completely different from a jewelry box, cutting board, or a bookcase, and calls for different techniques. I can hear the timber framers howling with laughte...
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Every now and then you stumble upon a tool that makes you wonder how you ever got by without it. For me, that was the shoulder plane. My present workbench base project was going to require 28 large mortise and tenon joints, and practice joints s...
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WayneC
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Welcome aboard! Let’s do some woodworking.
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Do you drive a Monster truck on the side?
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TheGravedigger
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posted 429 days ago
Thanks all for the warm welcome.
To Carson: <chuckle> No, that’s a different Gravedigger. Somehow I don’t think my SportTrak qualifies as a monster truck (unless you drive a MG, that is!).
Actually, Gravedigger has been my callsign since 1976. It stuck, and I just kept it. Actually,
I’ve been called a lot of things in my time (many not so nice!).
I’ll be starting my blog in the next day or two. I’m in the process of setting up my new shop, and am presently making my European-style workbench using mostly box-store grade lumber.
I’m curious to see how this low-cost variant will work out, and I’ll be adding entries & photos as it progresses. Maybe some of you will have some insights on this.
-- Robert from Raymond, MS. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not a practice, but a habit." - Aristotle
David
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DAN
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Hello – Robert
Noticed your latest project … go bowls. Very cool. where did thegravedigger handle come from ?
-- ..... smalll army of cast iron wingnuts !! cool photo in FORUM
TheGravedigger
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posted 378 days ago
It comes from an old movie called “Cotton Comes to Harlem.” One of the detectives was called Gravedigger. One of my buddies started calling me that and it stuck. <chuckle> Could be worse—we called him “Weasel”.
-- Robert from Raymond, MS. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not a practice, but a habit." - Aristotle