114 days ago
by Dustmite97 |
6 comments »
I have just got into box making. I am limited to what I can do with the tools I have. I have not been able to do good joinery with the tools I have. I have a table saw but I don’t own any special jigs besides a miter gauge. What I would like to do is finger joints or dovetails. I am wondering if anyone has any advice on how to make that type of joinery with the tools I have. If anybody asks, I also have a router, drill press, crosscut saw, and a miter saw. Not sure if I can make good jo...
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361 days ago
by Woodhacker |
23 comments »
Houndstooth dovetails use varying sizes of tails (or varying sizes of pins…depending on your perspective). I’ve wanted to try them for quite a while now. This blog shows most of the process I’m currently going through. To get the effect it seems to me you need more tails/pins per corner than one would normally think about. In this case like a few of my other recent boxes posted, I’m using Caribbean rosewood and curly maple.
Most often, (when you see them at all) these are done by alte...
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687 days ago
by Thomas Porter |
6 comments »
I’m going to be introducing you to my shop one tool at a time. I’m currently upgrading and making jigs/fixtures for a number of my machines and buying some great industrial tools in the near future. My shop is coming together piece by piece and I hope to show you the progress as I go. So here’s the first of my recent upgrades…
I recently upgraded to a “Poly Belt” on my Performax 22-44 Pro from the original 100 grit conveyor belt. Most people don’t ...
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694 days ago
by Karson |
22 comments »
Well I went to the attic, actually surface area of the wood rack in the workshop and picked up a Bigleaf Maple Burl piece that I bought about 5 years ago on eBay. It came from the Pacific Northwest of the USA.
The piece had been water blasted to remove all of the bark off the outer edge of the burl and that leaves the spikes that are seen here. The block had been dipped in wax to minimize the drying of it.
I then went to the jointer (spiral Carbide blades) and cleaned up the edges.
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733 days ago
by dewoodwork |
37 comments »
Construct these beautiful end grain
Cutting boards
Hello fellow woodworkers,In the spirit of sharing woodworking knowledge I am writing this tutorial for anyone interested in constructing these beautiful end grain cutting boards. Take a look at the photos of the four styles I have made, or create your own pattern’s and follow the steps I have outlined in this tutorial. Questions and comments are welcome, enjoy.
For thi...
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804 days ago
by Bob #2 |
10 comments »
This was a fun project with a decent outcome.Click on the blue text to see the steps we took.
I hope it will encourage all of you to entice someone in you circle to give woodworking a try.
Bob
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871 days ago
by Damian Penney |
5 comments »
Nice tutorial on making puzzles with your table saw
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881 days ago
by Damian Penney |
10 comments »
Just found this great resource for traditional Japanese joinery. Lots of good pictures and some nice projects he’s done there too.
Found it via this page after a google for tome tsugi.
Enjoy!
Here is a VRML viewer for the animations
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888 days ago
by Karson |
16 comments »
Sharpening and using a scraper.
When I suggest that you should use a scraper in your woodworking. Some are going to say “What?” Others are going to say “I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work!” And maybe others are going to say “I use them every day!” To the latter I’d say “Get a life!” To the previous I’d say “Hang on and we’ll fix your problems!” And to the first I’d say:
Scrapers have been used in woodworking for a long time. It is believed that the earliest scrapers were made out of pie...
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895 days ago
by Karson |
7 comments »
The making of a chess board with veneer. Mark made a comment earlier this week about a chess board that was presented as a project, that he’d like to make one for his son.
I sent him a private message and suggested that if he wanted to make a chess board, that I’d provide the veneer and some instructions on making it. There have been other posts in the last couple of weeks about veneering and vacuum veneering.
Mark replied that he didn’t have the equipment to do the veneering. I told hi...
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