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My New Hatch Cover #2: Cosmetic Veneering
You may have seen this video before. It was made for this blog but I added it to my “Hide G...
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My New Hatch Cover #1: Cold Molding a Curved Panel
I just got Friendship back in the water for the summer last week and when I was getting her rigge...
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Hide Glue for Beginners #4: A Little Hammer Veneering Video
I’m working on a new top for the sliding hatch on my sailboat to replace the $136 piece of ...
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Combining my Passions: Friendship Marquetry. #8: Remember the Shiny Thing ? ... the saga of a senior moment
This is not a pretty tale I tell today. I am calling it a “senior moment” but in fact...
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Combining my Passions: Friendship Marquetry. #7: Shading and Assembly
Sorry to keep you in suspense Mike but I got a little busy with preparing the real Friendship for...
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Combining my Passions: Friendship Marquetry. #6: Look, .... a Shiny Thing !
Disclaimer: I realize that I am digressing from the project today but not, I think you will agree...
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Combining my Passions: Friendship Marquetry. #5: Cutting and mounting the backgrounds.
The last segment ended with the background pattern glued to the packet for the lower part of the ...
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Combining my Passions: Friendship Marquetry. #4: Choosing and Preparing the Background
One of the advantages of pre-assembling on clear shelf paper is that you can pick up the whole m...
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Combining my Passions: Friendship Marquetry. #3: More Pieces,... Hull and Sails
Not a lot to say today. Just thought I’d bring you up to date on the progress. I’ve h...
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Combining my Passions: Friendship Marquetry. #2: Tiny Pieces, Cutting and Management
When ever I post one of these blogs people ask how I cut, handle and keep track of the tiny piece...
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Combining my Passions: Friendship Marquetry. #1: Upgrading my Desk Doors
Back in 2009 when my “woodworking as a hobby” life was just getting started I became ...
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Playing with Parchment
A few months ago my buddy Gene (vipond33) posted a superb desk featuring parchment and ebony. He ...
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Eye of the Tiger (how to)
Eye of the Tiger represents the second time I’ve tried the erosion or fusion technique of (...
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The Black Rooster, My Latest Marquetry Project #3: Assembling the Serving Tray
With the marquetry complete the next job is to find a place top display it, in this case a round ...
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The Black Rooster, My Latest Marquetry Project #2: Sand Shading, Assembly and Some More Cutting.
There is not a lot of sand shading on this project, but it is an essential element that will real...
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The Black Rooster, My Latest Marquetry Project #1: Cutting Letters in Marquetry
I am a lover of travel and of Italy in particular. Toscana is my favorite province and Chianiti m...
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Marquetry Cutting Styles #5: Conical Cutting on the Chevalet
In the segment on conical or double bevel cutting, I was using the scrollsaw as it was before my ...
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How to Build a Chevalet From Scratch #6: New Improved Chevalet Sketchup
I have improved a fair bit since I posted the initial SU of the chevalet. In fact it was my very ...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #9: Logo Offer
When I made the logo for this bench, I cut the marquetry in Boulle style which means that there i...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #8: The Sketchup ....Worth Waiting For
When I started thinking about this bench I did a sketchup to organize my ideas before I started b...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #7: Installing the Leg Vise and Finishing up.
The leg vise is so simple as to be self explanatory and its installation likewise, to the point t...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #6: Mounting the Wagons and Cosmetic Top.
As a boat builder I worked with epoxy A LOT… so for me it was a no brainer that the vises ...
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Dust Collection Issues. #3: Some different blast gates
My blast gates are nothing special but since some of you wanted to see them here are a few photos...
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Dust Collection Issues. #2: Make your own big PVC "Y's" ... Cheap !!
Have you ever looked up the price of an 8” to 6” PVC “Y” fitting? These a...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #5: Assembling the inter-laid legs.
Ok, lets get into the leg assemblies. This is one of the really interesting parts of my bench. T...
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Dust Collection Issues. #1: 100% improvement for $100 and a couple of hours.
Last winter Steve (kizerpea) posted this home built canister filter. It caught my attention becau...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #4: Fitting the top edges and ends
I know that I have said that there is no “fancy joinery” in this bench and there cert...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #3: Building the Plywood Bench Top
Part of the plan for this bench from the start was that is was to use interlaid layers of plywood...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #2: Building the Wagon Vises.
OK, lets get started. I will go through the build process in the same order that I built the benc...
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V8 Degree wedge powered workbench #1: Some Features and Operational Videos.
While this is the beginning of my construction blog for the V8 Degree bench, I’m not actual...
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Hide Glue for Beginners #3: A Bigger Glue-up
I know that some of you are interested in trying hide glue but think it is messy or inconvenient ...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #11: Finishing and Polishing to Music
This will be the last part of this blog until after the project is posted. I wasn’t even go...
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Hide Glue for Beginners #2: Some myths, some Pictures and some Videos
There are lots of myths around hide glue like it isn’t very strong, won’t last as lon...
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Hide Glue for Beginners #1: Take it From a Real Expert
I promised in a recent construction series about my current project to do a ”how to get sta...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #10: Delicate Moldings
I always knew that the scrolled edges of the aprons were going to need some kind of trim to defin...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #9: A Couple of Chevalet Videos.
A couple of segments back Rance asked in a comment if I could do a close up of the chevalet makin...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #8: Finishing up the Aprons.
There will be a little flashback in time here as some of this was done before the legs were finis...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #7: Pretty Apron to go with the Nice Legs
I guess we all probably agree that what this table needs to sharpen it up is a little more marque...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #6: Oooooh, Nice Legs!
Ok, next step is to get some leg blanks out and prepare them to accept the ringed balls. This was...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #5: Getting the Legs Started.
Back in the first part of this blog I posted this photo and said that the project was going to tu...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #4: The Marqueteur's Nightmare
At the end of the last segment I said that I would do this one on the thing that we who do marque...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #3: A Sidetrack and finishing the Tabletop
When the last episode ended our fearless hero was in a quandary. He had ditched the purpleheart g...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #2: More Marquetry for the Top.
The first photo here is the one the last segment finished off with. I re-post it here because it ...
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Marie's Table... A Marquetry Adventure #1: Where it all Started.
Some of you may remember a couple of months ago I posted a new segment in my blog about marquetry...
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Simple Jigs #2: Precision Router Jig for Straight Lines.
This is basically the same as the arc jig in the first segment but for a straight line rebate in...
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Simple Jigs #1: Simple Precision Arc Inlay Jig
I had the need this afternoon for a way to cut a curved groove for a veneer inlay. It needed to b...
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Marquetry Cutting Styles #4: "Painting in Wood"
At last I have photos to describe one more saw cutting marquetry style. I’m new to this one...
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A pressurized board steamer you can make quickly
This entry was prompted by this forum topic. I thought it would be of interest to look at a diffe...
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Quick, Cheap Thickness Sander for ShopSmith or Lathe #6: Sander in Action Video.
I finally got around to doing a video today for those who wanted to see this little sander up and...
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My Take on the Restricted Space/Budget Shop. #3: What Can You Turn Out in a Shop on the Cheap?
All of the stationary stuff that I described in the last post cost around $1500 or less with a li...
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My Take on the Restricted Space/Budget Shop. #2: The Beating Heart of the Shop
There are two institutions to be given credit for how well I have been able to equip my shop for ...
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My Take on the Restricted Space/Budget Shop. #1: The Space and the Tool List
When we bought a winter home in Green Valley AZ. in 2007 it didn’t take me long to realize ...
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Quick, Cheap Thickness Sander for ShopSmith or Lathe #5: Test Drive.. She works a treat
Well, the velcro kit arrived yesterday afternoon but just as I got it installed a friend showed u...
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Quick, Cheap Thickness Sander for ShopSmith or Lathe #4: Tuning Up
So I went out to the shop this morning, all set to get the sander all tuned up and ready for the ...
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Quick, Cheap Thickness Sander for ShopSmith or Lathe #3: Finishing up the build
When I left off yesterday I needed elevators and the skirts for the dust collector. I decided to ...
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Quick, Cheap Thickness Sander for ShopSmith or Lathe #2: Structurally Complete - down to details
OK, I’m about 10 hours in now ( maybe 8 productive and two wasted on one bad measurement...
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Quick, Cheap Thickness Sander for ShopSmith or Lathe #1: How little can I get away with building?
I’ve just returned to my winter home / shop in Arizona. At home I have all the tools and lo...
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Some Epoxy Handling Tips #3: A Little Trick with Cloth
This is maybe my best epoxy trick. The example here only scratches the surface of the appilcation...
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Some Epoxy Handling Tips #2: Mixing and Additives
When I posted the first blog entry here some questions about mixing and additives arose. I find t...
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Some Epoxy Handling Tips #1: Don't get any on you !
The first rule I try to follow when using epoxies is “Don’t get any on you !” a...
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Easy. Elegant Wooden Box Hinge #2: A Sketchup Model to Make it Easier (I hope)
I have had several people PM me who were having trouble with the details of the integral hinge in...
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My New Website #2: It's a Wrap, Thanks for the Help.
I’ve done the final adjustments to the new site and am pleased with the way it turned out. ...
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My New Website #1: Second Generation Website (with a lot of help from LJ's) Does this look better???
A few days ago I posted my first attempt at building a web site and asked for LJ’s feedback...
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How is it displaying on your browser?
Hi LJ’s. I’ve decided to follow many of you and build a website as a tool to displ...
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A Few Holiday Photos #2: Lots of good figured olive veneer here !
We hopped a bus today to check out the old town of Roquebrune (France). I was intrigued by one of...
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A Few Holiday Photos #1: A gelato bar with marquetry
We were at the Friday public market in Ventimiglia, Italy today and happened into this little gel...
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Shipyard Memories #23: Finishing The Build
I’m afraid that the photos are a little scarce from here on but I’ll do what I can wi...
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Shipyard Memories #22: Closing Up the Hull
Time for the trickiest part of this round stern hull, fitting the stern panel. Here we have ca...
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Shipyard Memories #21: The Jig, Patterns, and Hull Glue Up
As these boats are a little larger than the usual stitch and glue hull and because some of the be...
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Shipyard Memories #20: The Harbour Ferries: Stitch and Glue Construction.
This is the fourth and last blog on the different styles of construction that I have used in wood...
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Retooling the Shop to Acommodate Marquetry #1: Creating new kinds of storage.
It all started when I got my first “Pizza Box of Veneer” from Lee Valley. It&#...
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Perfect Splined Mitre Joints in Five Minutes Without Clamps
When I posted “Arnie’s Tea Box” http://lumberjocks.com/projects/50187 one of th...
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Easy. Elegant Wooden Box Hinge #1: I could kick myself
A few months ago I spent many many hours trying to perfectly align a set of “box joint hing...
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Marquetry Cutting Styles #3: Classic Style
The Classic Style is the most difficult of the saw cut styles to master. It involves cutting each...
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Marquetry Cutting Styles #2: Boulle Style
This style is named for one of the great masters, Andre-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) and it differs...
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Marquetry Cutting Styles #1: Double Bevel or Conical Style
When I posted the clipper ship marquetry for my Canadian chevalet, there was some confusion about...
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For the Sailors and Boat Lovers
I just posted a couple of short videos of “Friendship” under sail, taken from on boar...
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Chevy II; The Canadian Cousin #3: The Handle, an Adventure with Cocobolo and Hide Glue.
I know I kind of wound this blog up last time but this little adventure was enough fun to warrant...
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Chevy II; The Canadian Cousin #2: Operational but not "Finished"
Chevy II is now a working chevalet de marqueterie, but she’s not “finished”. Th...
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Chevy II; The Canadian Cousin #1: Garry Oak Slabs to Basic Framework
I’ve already blogged my AZ chevalet so this will be a simple “keep you up to dateR...
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How to Build a Chevalet From Scratch #5: Finishing Up, Refining the Prototype
When I started to build the chevalet from a few photos on the internet, I wasn’t at all sur...
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How to Build a Chevalet From Scratch #4: Another Little Modification
This is a bit of the fine tuning I knew awaited me once I started getting into the chevalet. My o...
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Origami for Woodworkers #1: Grinder Dust Control on the Q&D
I wanted to do some grinder shaping on a seat for my Chevalet this morning and needed to control ...
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How to Build a Chevalet From Scratch #3: Some Chevalet Modifications A New Friend
There are two stories here that can’t be separated from each other so I’ll tell them ...
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Taking the Chevalet (no not Chevrolet) for a Test Drive. #3: The Requested Video, Part One.
I had two LJ friends over today to do a test drive and we managed to shoot a surprisingly passabl...
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Taking the Chevalet (no not Chevrolet) for a Test Drive. #2: Dying Veneers, More Practice and the Chianti Black Rooster.
As I am using green and red veneers here I thought I’d answer the “Did you dye them?&...
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How to Build a Chevalet From Scratch #2: Blade Clamps, Sliding Mechanism and Adjusters
At the end of this blog series I will post some measurements for those who want to build one and ...
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Taking the Chevalet (no not Chevrolet) for a Test Drive. #1: Layout and Cutting... and a senior moment
So the chevalet is finished and it’s time to take her for a test drive. Like any test drive...
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How to Build a Chevalet From Scratch #1: How hard can it be?
Update: See also Chevy II, The Canadian Cousin. I first saw a chevalet in Sorrento, Italy abou...
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Shipyard Memories #19: Something Really Cool Just Happened to Me on LJ's
This morning when I checked the “pulse” section here on LJ’s, I had a very cool...
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Shipyard Memories #18: Finished, Launched and Sailing
Time to wind up the Cold Molded Construction edition of this little trip through my old shipyard,...
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Shipyard Memories #17: Keel Bolts
To answer some of the questions asked about the keel bolts after my last entry, here are some pho...
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Shipyard Memories #16: Boring Bars and Custom Castings
One of the interesting tools that find a regular use in building boats is the boring bar. After t...
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Shipyard Memories #15: Rolling Hulls Over and Pouring Lead Keels
Once the hull is planked, it is skinned with 6 oz. fiberglass cloth set in epoxy and faired using...
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Shipyard Memories #14: Cold Molded Planking
I have to apologize for my lack of a lot of photos of this stage. I guess it just seemed to borin...
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Shipyard Memories #13: Two Cape Scott 36's: Cold Molded Construction
This is the third in a series of blogs on the different types of wooden boat construction I’...
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"Watercolor" Style Aniline Dye Technique #3: Tips and Tricks I've Learned
Time to wind up this little blog about my venture into hand dyeing marquetry. Most of what’...
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"Watercolor" Style Aniline Dye Technique #2: New Lessons Learned from "Facets"
The biggest and most dramatic new lesson I learned from the “Facets” project’s ...
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"Watercolor" Style Aniline Dye Technique #1: General Concept
This is the blog that I promised detailing my experiments in what I call “watercolor style...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #10: Finishing Touches and a Few Extra Photos
Finally everything is finished except to finish it all. This project, like the last one had speci...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #9: Gold Leaf Accents
Back in the entry about planning the base I had decided, after some discussion, to finish the bas...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #8: Hinge Assembly and a Little Detail.
It’s been a while but the project is moving along. I don’t want to spill the near fin...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #7: Gluing Up the Dodecahedron
The original segment here asked “How hard can it be to make a dodecahedron? Well the answer...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #6: Dying the Veneer...... (Again??)
God hates a coward, I’ve always said so with only a little experimentation , I decided to d...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #5: Alignment and Trimming the Marquetry
The dying has been postponed.. As of the events discussed in my last entry, the gluing bacame the...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #4: Dying, Part 1: I don't believe what just happened!
This is a “special segment” that I just had to post because I had an amazing emotiona...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #3: Veneering and Marquetry, (What was I thinking?)
OK, so we have a box and we have a base. The easy bit is over. On to the scary as hell bit. As I ...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #2: Planning the Base
This entry is, as much as anything, a look into my somewhat chaotic design process. I never commi...
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Facets, the Next Logical Step #1: How hard can it be to make a Dodecahedron?
The next box in the series Oops!, A Llittle Cabinetree, and now Facets is on the build. It had to...
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Shipyard Memories #12: The Catboats: Framed Plywood Construction, Finished Photos and Sailing.
Well, the construction part of this blog is over such as it was, so it’s time for a few sh...
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Shipyard Memories #11: The Catboats: Framed Plywood Construction, Fitting Out
Completion of the hull is a milestone in any boat building project, but while many think of it as...
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Shipyard Memories #10: The Catboats: Framed Plywood Construction, Backbone and Structural Components
Before going on to the backbone and structural components of the cats, I found a photo today that...
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Shipyard Memories #9: The Catboats: Framed Plywood Construction, Scarfing and Setup
Plywood construction probably presents the easiest method for an amateur to build a good boat, bu...
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Microcosms, a trip to a smaller world #2: Micro-Banding
Well, the banding actually sliced and attached to the box so I guess we’ll chock it up as a...
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Microcosms, a trip to a smaller world #1: Tiny Home Made Plywood and Banding.
I started this as a forum topic http://lumberjocks.com/topics/22441 but the way it’s goi...
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A Little Cabinetree #6: Some Pitfalls in the Process
I do hope that some of you will take up the challenge and improve this technique as I think it ha...
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A Little Cabinetree #5: Assembly (and a little setback)
Don’t you just hate it when this happens !! Today was supposed to be the day I finis...
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A Little Cabinetree #4: Leaves to Dye For (From)
About the same time as I started this project I found a source for aniline dyes that came in conc...
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A Little Cabinetree #3: Scroll Saw Marquetry.
Supporting a box in a tree was one of the original design ideas but a look at the “plans &#...
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A Little Cabinetree #2: The Box and the Branches
OK so we’re going to make a tree and set a box in it. Sounds pretty simple, just a differen...
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A Little Cabinetree #1: The Concept, the Goals and the Challenges.
When it comes to building boats, I guess after 30 years of it I am a professional, but as a hobby...
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Shipyard Memories #8: The Smaug Blog: Wood Boatbuilding 101, Under Sail
The only sailing photos I have were taken before the square rigging arrived, too bad. I say arriv...
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Shipyard Memories #7: The Smaug Blog: Wood Boatbuilding 101, Interior and Stepping the Mast
The interior of the boat was completed before launching, unfortunately without any progress photo...
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Shipyard Memories #6: The Smaug Blog: Wood Boatbuilding 101, The Big Day: Launching
Now we are nearing the big day, launching. The hull has been faired and sanded and is ready for i...
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Shipyard Memories #5: The Smaug Blog: Wood Boatbuilding 101, Decking and Casting the Keel
One of the more common complaints against wooden boats is leaking decks. With a traditional caulk...
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Shipyard Memories #4: The Smaug Blog: Wood Boatbuilding 101, Planking
Probably the most anticipated part of building a wooden boat is the planking. The old boat builde...
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Shipyard Memories #3: The Smaug Blog: Wood Boatbuilding 101, Bending the Ribs
OK, the time has come to explain the reasons for the jogged frames and the inside and outside rib...
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Shipyard Memories #2: The Smaug Blog: Wood Boatbuilding 101, Backbone and Framing
Besides the yellow cedar which will be used for planking, deck framing and various timbers and kn...
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Shipyard Memories #1: The Smaug Blog: Wood Boatbuilding 101, A Trip to the Sawmill
To those of you who have requested more photos and explanations of my boatbuilding days, thank yo...
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Router Marquetry
I hope this hasn’t been covered before. It is a technique that I designed myself but it can...
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Creating Oops! tutorial
Oops! began as an idea about outside the box hinges. I’ve always liked the “box on st...
