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| 177 days ago |
How do I decide on a price for my work? - 43 replies I recently finished a very nice (if I do say so myself) entryway table, on the way out of my school where I built it a teacher asked if I would be selling it and asked what it’s price would be. I had no idea what to say and I kind of stammered around for a few minutes and ended up saying I would get back to her. How do you guys usually p... |
| 308 days ago |
how do I smooth the end grain? - 9 replies I am a high school wood shop student and unfortunately I do not have the money to buy solid bowl blanks for turning on the lathe. I have thus been forced to glue up 6-7 pieces of walnut into a large block (the wood being glued face to face not edge to edge). In the past when I have done this I ran into a problem as the end grain side of the bo... |
| 431 days ago |
Drilling a pipe's curved bit - 4 replies My friend who recently moved off to Westpoint Military Academy has decided (for some reason unbeknownst to me) that he would like to pick up pipe smoking. I would love to make a very nice looking and functional pipe for him but I have come to a bit of a hang-up. On most high-end pipes the part that one places in their mouth has a slight curve to... |
| 548 days ago |
lathes - 3 replies I’ll start off by telling you guys that i love using the lathe, i have gotten pretty good at turning small bowls and pens and such in my schools wood shop. Here is the problem, school gets out in a couple of days and I am at a loss I do not have a lot of money and cannot afford more than a 200 or so dollar lathe but i would like a lathe s... |
| 548 days ago |
ivorize??? - 3 replies i am a relative amateur wood worker and i have a plan for a table that i will be entering in a contest but i have run into a, hiccup if you will. i am trying to play that old ebony and ivory effect and i have found ebonizing agents but i cant find anything to make wood look like ivory or even just really white. i wont do paint because i plan o... |
