| This blog is written by moshel | 20 entries so far |
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Trestle dining table #6: The finished and assembled base
and here it is!
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Trestle dining table #5: Putting on finish and assembling the base
after lots of considerations and tests, i decided to use diluted white acrylic (10 water to one a...
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Trestle dining table #4: attaching the beam to the verticlas
verticals were grouped into pairs, and double taped so the outsides will be face to face (this wa...
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Trestle dining table #3: beam and finishing the uprights
have some time now, so expect more progress! first, i milled and chamfered the beam. although ...
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Trestle dining table #2: Making the supports
now for the supports.The supports are really narrow (~1.5”), so i had to double tape them t...
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Trestle dining table #1: Making the feet
This blog will follow my build of a dining trestle table from WOOD magazine #28 (you can see how ...
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wood gloat #2: Tasmanian Blackwood
One of my fellow LJ’s drew my attention to a sale on trademe (our local ebay) of a log of T...
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Jig for gluing hexagons
I had several requests to make more of my hexagonal tumbling blocks coaster. they are pretty stre...
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wooden winch #4: upper frame
well, its time to make the upper frame. I have rounded the edges of the back brace (as the anchor...
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wooden winch #3: holes and bottom frame
First, I drilled the holes for the handles, here it is with one 3/4” pipe in place (I don&#...
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wooden winch #2: the pole
I have to apologize for not taking pictures while building it – thought about it only later...
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wooden winch #1: background
As you all know, Steve (daltxguy) is hosting some LJ’s for the weekend and will be using us...
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wood gloat #1: European Beech
At last!!! a wood gloat of my own! I made friends with the demolition people that demolished t...
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free book for making wooden puzzles (3x3 cubes and such)
This is a really good book that has many many puzzles. It is also oriented toward the woodworker ...
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Milling the Almond tree
Hi All, First, a picture:From 230809 milling almond At first I was not sure that milling this...
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simple and effective holddowns
I have been looking for a way to add holddowns to my benchtop for a while. All the plans i saw ca...
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free american woodworker issues
I am probably the only one who didn’t know this, but here we go: apparently all issues o...
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learn from my mistakes #1: newspaper rack
Hi all, This is the first of (I hope short) series of blog entries that follows projects and t...
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Free woodworking book (mission style furniture)
I couldn’t find any reference for this on the site, so if I am re-posting the obvious, plea...
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Very useful jig for gluing and routing thin material
I have been using this jig for gluing thin material for some time now: (i think the basic idea...
