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Arched Bed #16: Weird Science ~ Results
As you can see in the pictures below, there is quite a bit of difference between the newly applie...
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Arched Bed #15: Weird Science
So this time around I decided to mix my own chemicals. It really gave me an appreciation for the...
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Arched Bed #14: The Plan Comes Together
We always say it, you do too, we love it when a plan comes together. Not a whole lot more to say...
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Arched Bed #13: Now the suspense is killing me
Hey I want to see how this thing turns out too so I better get to it. Just a quick look at the s...
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Arched Bed #12: The Suspense Was Killing You
I’ve made many comments about the Mortise Pal Jig and how accurate it is, but this time we&...
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Arched Bed #11: Breaking Down the Break Down Joints
So I’ve broken down the break down steps into a mini-series or blog within a blog. Since t...
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Arched Bed #10: Break Down Joinery
Where to begin? This time around I thought I’d start at the end then show how I got there....
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Arched Bed #9: Major Mortise Messup
In the great tradition of Lumberjocks I am honor bound to once again confess the error of my ways...
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Arched Bed #8: The Outside Arch Frame
Like a circle in a spiral, a wheel in a wheel… and so it goes. Here’s another chance...
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Arched Bed #7: The Most Critical Cut
This is one of the many reasons why I love woodworking. It is figuring out how to get accurate r...
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Arched Bed #6: Golden Arches
About time to move on to something else but first I have to finish the other two arches. I used ...
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Arched Bed #5: Learning Curve
So after building the giant forms I’m finally ready for the first glue lamination. Since t...
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Arched Bed #4: Temple of Templates
Yeah well you’ve got to name it something. There are three arches in this project. I figu...
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Arched Bed #3: Bending 1" Thick Maple
Curving or wrapping might be better terms. Once again Sketchup is a big help in this process. T...
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Arched Bed #2: Strike a Chord
I have found that two dimensions are especially helpful in designing arches; the radius of the ar...
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Arched Bed #1: Design Sketchup
Hello jocks and jockettes… it has been awhile since my last project, still I’ve been ...
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Copper Patina Gate II #10: Charles Neil Trick
So I wasn’t too happy with the look of the front stays on this gate. And I had also made a...
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Copper Patina Gate II #9: Aged Patina
Now I get to the good part. I wish I had taken pictures right after I had first applied the chem...
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Copper Patina Gate II #8: Apply the Patina
Just sitting here listening to Atlas Shrugged (“Money is the source of all good” and ...
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Copper Patina Gate II #7: Rabbet & Dry Fit Frame
I found out you can cut almost any size rabbet with a combination of a rabbeting bit and a straig...
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Copper Patina Gate II #6: Lap Joint
Between the All Star game on one channel and USA v. China Men’s Volleyball on the other, I ...
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Copper Patina Gate II #5: Mistakes... Aaaaaaaaaaargh!
I hate mistakes. However, sometimes I like the challenge of fixing them. The idea I think is to...
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Copper Patina Gate II #4: Cut the Arch
So here’s a step by step process I used to cut the inner and outer arches. The basic plan ...
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Copper Patina Gate II #3: More Mortise Magic
Okay, by now you’ve heard it a few times, I really like the Mortise Pal jig. This time aro...
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Copper Patina Gate II #2: Frame & Arch Layout
One of the main challenges of cutting an arch is figuring out the dimensions and glue angle of st...
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Copper Patina Gate II #1: Sketching Up
So I finally joined the ranks of all you pro-Sketchuppers. I watched some of the videos a while ...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #10: Ready to hang
First… after seeing Trifern’s secrets on dyeing I wonder how a door would look? Gues...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #9: Pre-Finish
Nothing real exciting at this point. Just wanted to have a complete blog on this project. I use...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #8: Bent Laminated Stays
There are a number of ways to hold the panel in place. You could cut a rabbet on the inside edge...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #7: Pop the Copper
Here’s my first attempt at the hot patina process. All but one of the chemicals arrived fr...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #6: Dryfit & teaser
Except for the fact the tennons were a little tight and there was a slight gap in one of the join...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #5: Mortise Magic
The gate frame is joined with mortise and loose tennons, although there’s nothing loose abo...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #4: Cutting the Segmented Arches
Firstly… acknowledgements and thanks to Jlsmith for his response and link to Gary Katz's Sk...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #3: Knowns & Unknowns
The challenge is trimming the arch rail to the exact width at the exact angle which, when combine...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #2: Arches & Jughead
Arcs, tangents, degrees, rays, minutes, arctangents, radians. Like Jughead I don’t know an...
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Copper Patina Garden Gate #1: In for a penny, in for a ton
Ever since I saw David Marks’ Japanese Garden gate I was intrigued. I think it is the idea...
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Weather Station: The Next Generation #6: Opposites Attract
The last step in the process is to install the magnets. If you’ve followed this blog you m...
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Weather Station: The Next Generation #5: Glue Up; That's the one I've been looking for.
I remember Sen. Bob Dole telling the story of a day spent with his father loading hay bales into ...
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Weather Station: The Next Generation #4: Drill Here, Drill Now
There are a number or holes required for this project. Here’s a list of purpose and sizes....
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Weather Station: The Next Generation #3: Cutting the spacer templates
Here’s the process I used to make the new style templates. First I use the top level templ...
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Weather Station: The Next Generation #2: Template Solution: Opposite Man
Some may remember the old Seinfeld episode where George decided his normal way wasn’t worki...
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Weather Station: The Next Generation #1: Taming the Templates
This is a simple project that is made more so with a couple of templates. In fact I would not kn...
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Weather Station #6: Finished & Critique
So here’s the finished version. I applied two coats of GF Seal-A-Cell along with two GF to...
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Weather Station #5: I am repelled...
So here’s a little advice. When you are working with matching sets of magnets, great care ...
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Weather Station #4: Initial Glue Up
I thought the piece needed a little pizazz so I added ebony strips to the top and bottom. Ebony ...
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Weather Station #3: Fitting the instruments
I thought about these next steps all day today. This is another great thing about woodworking. ...
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Weather Station #2: Its a bird... its a plane...
No. Its a highly engineered, precision instrument capable of lining up the parts of a Weather St...
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Weather Station #1: And away we go...
Now that I finished the Japanese Garden Bench I had the chance to begin a project I’ve been...
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Japanese Garden Bench #5: Finishing Up
By popular demand. ;) So here’s the finished project with the first coat of stain. I made...
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Japanese Garden Bench #4: Back Splats: More Mortise Pal
Got some time out in the shop, next step was to cut, fit, and join the back splats. Once again t...
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Japanese Garden Bench #3: Dry Fit the Bench: Mortise Results
I downloaded the plans for this project from Fine Woodworking and purchased the full-size templat...
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Japanese Garden Bench #2: Pal-ing Around
I love a plan when it comes together! So when is woodworking fun? When you can steadily progr...
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Japanese Garden Bench #1: In progress: base
So here are some progress picks of the bench seat and sides. It is all joined with mortise and l...
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