| This blog is written by stefang | 134 entries so far |
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A MUST SEE FOR EVERY WOODWORKER
This is the most incredible woodworking I have ever seen. I’m pretty sure you will agree wi...
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Interesting link
Have a look at this. I think you will like it.
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Buying and dreaming about high quality hand planes
New scraper planeI have been wanting a scraper plane for a long time. I’m tired of the heat...
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Buying and dreaming about high quality hand planes
New scraper planeI have been wanting a scraper plane for a long time. I’m tired of the heat...
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If you ever have been irked by small problems with your projects read this!
I really feel sorry for this poor chap. He has scroll sawn a 40,000 piece jigsaw puzzle to celebr...
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DID SHIPWRIGHT TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT HIDE GLUE?
I read Shipwright’s 3 part blog on hot hide glue here for beginners. Here is a paraphrased ...
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SOME INTERESTING FILMS
I couldn’t find a suitable forum for these films, so I just hung it onto my old blog hoping...
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SOME INTERESTING FILMS
I couldn’t find a suitable forum for these films, so I just hung it onto my old blog hoping...
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BUYING MACHINE TOOLS - ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
NOT A REVIEWA couple of years ago I bought this nice disk sander with the trademark ‘Woodfa...
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Making a Picture Frame the Hard Way
BACKGROUNDAfter finishing my Chinese Dragon marquetry picture I need a frame to go with it. My fi...
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Marquetry tools, veneers and supply purchases
I thought it might be interesting for those thinking about taking up marquetry work to get an ide...
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LITTLE STEP, BIG BREAKTHROUGH
The problemOne thing that has been bothering me about starting up with marquetry using thin venee...
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HOW TO MAKE COLOR COPIES WITH YOUR BANDSAW
Welcome to my shop. Yes, today I will show you how to make color copies with your bandsaw. ...
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WOODWORKING ON A GRAND SCALE #1: Worth looking at
I ran across this article in the Daily Mail UK and I thought a lot of woodworkers would appreciat...
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Almost finished
Here is the latest rendition of my dragon marquetry and the original art I took the motif from. I...
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Went Boulleing Today (again)
NO DRAGON TODAY, HOORAY! I have ordered some veneers, both burls and some regulars. I also order...
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Semi Final
CURRENT STATUSI have just about blogged this thing to death and I’m still not finished, but...
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Good progress today
TODAYS WORKThe yellow was added to the whiskers, eyebrows and legs. I still have some yellow to d...
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Slowly But Surely
WORK DONE SINCE LAST POSTThe upper and lower belly sections are done (excepting remedial work), t...
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Progress Update
WHAT I DID TODAYI managed to get more of the black filled in. Some of the fingers, the whiskers a...
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Slow But Steady Progress and Learning
ADVENTURE SUMMARYAgainst all good sense and the normal practice of creating marquetry with a wide...
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Progress Update
I was hoping to get a lot done today, but I was called on to provide transport. That is one of m...
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THE GOOD AND THE BAD
TODAYS DRAMATIC EPISODEI started out the day in the shop full of optimism. The first thing I did ...
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My Dragon Marquetry Project As Seen From Australia
I’ve gotten so many nice compliments for the ‘colorful’ etc. work on my dragon ...
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Tried Something New Today
PROBLEM TO SOLVEI’ve been trying to figure out how I was going to do the belly of the drago...
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Progress
IT WAS EASIER TODAYThe work went well today. I have cut and glued in most of the body pieces exce...
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Third Time Lucky
FULL DISCLOSUREYesterday’s work turned out better than my first try. What I didn’t sa...
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Sailing Downwind
TODAYS WORKToday was better. I bandsawed a background piece about 3/8” thick and a thinner ...
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Sailing Upwind
I took a few photos to show you what I was up to with my latest experiment. Unfortunately it didn...
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Two Very Helpful Tools For Marquetry And Other Pattern Work
I won’t pretend that I can teach you marquetry guys anything, but I would like to share a c...
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Finding a method that works for me
BACKGROUNDI have been doing a little scroll sawing here and there for quite a few years along wit...
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Some Woodworking Curiosities and the Norwegian Weather Report
Hi All. My wife and I took our annual one hour drive to a local mountain restaurant to celebrate ...
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How to cut really big trees
Just thought the photos in this news article of big Redwoods being harvested way back when were i...
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New type of wood art
What you are looking at here believe it or not is stacked firewood which has been shape stacked a...
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What is it?
I just finished making the item pictured for my oldest son Steven. I wondered if others had made ...
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Birth Of A Workshop
My wife and I are currently visiting my son Mark and our DIL Sofie. This is our first visit to th...
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Straw Box
My wife and I are visiting our son and DIL Sofie in Lycksele Sweden. A small community in Lapplan...
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WHO TOOK THOR'S CHISEL?
Why intarsia?I wanted to try my hand at intarsia and maybe marquetry later on. I have been seeing...
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The birth of a woodworker?
My wife and I were helping my brother-in-law to clean out my 91 year old mother-in-law’s ho...
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Super Easy Way to Erase Pencil Lines on Wood
I read this advice somewhere on the net and I wanted to share it with you. I should have noted wh...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #10: Started the new ball today with some changes
Here is what I’m trying to make. I drilled the small holes in the ball today and tur...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #9: Having a Ball (or at least making one)
You might guess that I wouldn’t have a new ball ready so fast after the last fiasco. Well, ...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #8: Learned Something New Today?
Today was a total success! I proved that my wooden plugs just weren’t good enough! Now to ...
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I'm on a Roll
Just a little progress update I had to drive my wife to the eye doctor today and we went groce...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #7: A Small But Significant Victory
Hi Friends. The Chinese Ball war isn’t over yet, but I did manage to win a battle today. I ...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #6: Drilling the 22 constellation holes in the ball
Here is what I am trying to make: Here is where we left off at the end of the last blog with t...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #5: Making a Wooden Ball - part 2
This is what I’m trying to make: I hope you haven’t given up on me with this b...
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Tree trunk sculptures
A link to some tree trunk sculptures that are pretty cool. I like this idea of sculpting dead tre...
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Dyeing LiveTrees
I have been looking through some old issues of Popular Science Magazine online. I thought some ot...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #4: Making a Wooden Ball - part 1
Here is what I’m trying to make I tried my ball cutting jig today to see if it would...
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Appeal to all LJ Members
Most of us who are a little wary of the web so we use anonymous membership names. I suspect that ...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #3: The Big Chuck Challenge
Here is what I’m trying to make. Essential to this type of work is a chuck to hold the b...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #2: Some Tool Details and My Ball Cutting Jig
This is what I am attempting to make““ CUTTING TOOLS DETAILI took a few photos to ...
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STEFANG'S CHINESE BALL QUEST #1: Project Description and Making Special Tools
WHAT IS A CHINESE BALL?Here’s a photo of the kind I am attempting to make. There are four b...
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Catching up
PERSONAL STUFFI just want to say Happy new Year to all my LJ buddies and any other members willin...
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Stefangs Woodcarving - Practice Session #3: -
The latest carving practice piece is done in Sycamore. Fairly hard wood for carving. I am continu...
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Stefangs Woodcarving - Practice Session #2: -
Well folks here is today’s practice carving. It’s amazing how quick you can learn thi...
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Stefangs Woodcarving - Practice Session #1: -
This is not a tutorial blog My woodcarving skills are very limited (a nice word for non-existent)...
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'V' for Victory - Easy way to sharpen your 'V' Carving Chisel
Instead of helping anyone, this blog might just show the depth of my ignorance. I’ve been g...
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Easy Bandsaw Log Cutting Method
I recently promised to blog a jig free method for bandsawing logs into lumber. I might have calle...
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Hello all you bucketeer’s. I got a message from MsDebbie asking that the participants in th...
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Today I finished my bucket project. The best part of the project for me has been doing the work, ...
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A progress update. I haven’t been in the shop for a few weeks due to illness. Now I̵...
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A HUGE THANK YOU TO MADS (MAFE)
A few days ago I got a package in the mail from Mads in Denmark. He had mentioned that he was goi...
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Japan
After seeing the catastrophe following the big eathquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan I felt ...
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Another short update from Mike’s inferno. I never was a math whiz and I still have problem...
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Well it’s time to once again reveal my ignorance about ancient bucket making. Today I went ...
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Hi fellow bucket enthusiasts. I finally have something new to show. Today I cut the binding mater...
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Another little update. I’ve finished the stave’s and tuned up all the edge angles, so...
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Just a little update to let my fellow participants know that I’m still alive. I do apologiz...
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Just a short EMERGENCY BLOG concerning the dowels in the buckets. I haven’t noticed it befo...
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Another short progress report today. I finished rounding the stave’s on the outside using m...
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Another short update to show the outside rounding. I managed to get half of the stave’s rou...
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Another short update. I finally got my bucket stave’s mounted on the bottom. I still have t...
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Just a short blog today to tell you what I’ve learned and to give you a few tips. Today I p...
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I haven’t been in the shop since Thursday and even then only for a short time. You might kn...
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This blog will be about showing you a plausible way that ancient man might have calculated the wi...
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I don’t know about you, but I hate blogs without pictures, but I have to do this one quickl...
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Today’s blog is about planing the stave’s inside concave surface and planing the edge...
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Today’s blog is the start of making the bucket. Today we begin with the bottom But first ou...
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This blog is just a summing up of the work so far and what’s ahead. I spare you the logos t...
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This blog concerns finishing up the lag knife and making the binding lever. First our familiar pr...
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I thought I better do this blog just to prove I’m not always asleep in my Lazyboy chair. To...
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Today’s blog is about rounding the plane sole, adding a horn and push block (both are optio...
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This blog is to cover the preparation of the rounded plane iron. I ran out of time and I will hav...
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At the end of the last blog, #3 in the series, we had finished gluing up the body and cheeks of t...
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This 3d blog in the series covers perhaps for many the most difficult part of this project, which...
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Update on the Ancient bucket project
I just wanted the participants in the bucket project to know how things are progressing. I have p...
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We won’t be able to make anything without materials, so that is the subject of this blog to...
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CONTENTS OF THIS BLOGI am glad to see that there are many others besides myself who are intereste...
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Interested in Joining an Ancient Woodworking Project?
Would you be interested in joining me in making an ancient style wooden bucket as pictured below ...
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Another Mush Box, and Help!!
Last week I posted my latest turned Norwegian Porridge container. I have only made two of these. ...
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Christmas Greetings
I just want to wish all you Lumberjocks a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I’m...
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Bob Seguin's woodworking
Hi everyone. My son sent me the video link below showing Bob Seguin making a miniature model colt...
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My First Big Resaw Experience With My New Bandsaw
On Thursday I showed you the little, but expensive pile of wood I bought for my Christmas project...
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Wood, wood quiz and some bla, bla, bla
Hi fellow LJer’s, I bought some wood today. I thought it might be interesting (for me at le...
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Woodworking Terminology for New(er) Woodworkers
This is just a follow-up to Jim’s blog on giving advice. I found a woodworking site that tr...
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Hand honing your chisels and plane blades
IntroductionI think most of us would agree that we would like to spend as little time as possible...
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Wedgewood is more than fine china
The problemI was making a multi sided box the other day, and after cutting all the miters, I deci...
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New clamp holders and box joints on the bandsaw
Hi everyone, I’ve been trying to make a few small changes in my shop. One of the changes...
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How to make rain with a bandsaw & Eliminating bandsaw bladedrift
Last Monday I bought an 18” Woodfast bandsaw and I had to tell you folks about it because y...
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GARDEN BENCH WITH WEIRD JOINERY #2 final Entry
This project was my first ever blog on LJ. The first part was posted 370 days ago. I’m prob...
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One year old LJ member
Thank you Gary (Bureaucrat) for making me aware that I will have been a member of LJ for a whole...
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Shop Flooring
If you have been thinking of installing a wooden floor in your shop you might want to consider th...
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Great Expectations - an alternative to Charles Dickens' Novel #2: Todays Theme - MachineTools
When I started woodworking 14 years ago after retiring from my day job, my experience with tools ...
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Great Expectations - an alternative to Charles Dickens' Novel #1: Today's theme - Patience
I really enjoy woodworking now much more than I did in the past. I started thinking about why thi...
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Wooden Hinges for Boxes - Installation Part 2 and Final
Here is the finished glue-up. Everything went well with a good result. There are other things tha...
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Wooden Hinges For Boxes - Installation
For those of you who followed my last blog on making a wooden hinge, I have to apologize for bein...
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Shop Made Dowels The Easy Way & Two Useful Ways to Use Them
Why make dowels when you can buy them cheap? Well, you can’t buy dowels in every kind of wo...
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A Tall Router Table Fence for Lock Miter Joint & Tenons
I needed a special fence for routing lock miter joints. I found one designed by Norman Ellis who ...
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A Poor Man's Router Fence Positioning Jig
Quite a few years ago I made a fence positioning jig from a design by Nick Engler. It was nice an...
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What is Your Most Embarrasing Workshop Mistake/Failure?
After posting my workshop plaque I thought we might hear some interesting and funny workshop disa...
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Mike's Workshop Secrets
I just thought you might be interested in seeing the inspiring little plaque I have hanging insid...
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Lining Your Jewelry Box With Felt - Tutorial
I had finished my wife’s jewelry box with the exception of putting in the felt lining. I...
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Making a Wooden Hinge For Your Box - Tutorial
While the rest of the world is going forward I seem to be going in the other direction, ie; woode...
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Wooden Hinge Alert !!
Just a short note to let anyone interested know that I should be posting the blog on making a woo...
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How to Close Gaps Around Dovetails Without Fillers
Even the best woodworker sometimes get gaps around their dovetails or box joints, This is probabl...
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A Very Simple Easy to Make Small Portable Router Table
I’ve been helping an Australian woodworker to construct a box. She is very competent with a...
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Christmas Greetings and Salutations
Hello Fellow LJ members wherever you are. My wife and I just want to wish you and your families ...
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A link to some fantastic Australian turning
A great gallery link for you turners out there and anyone else who appreciates turned work. Sam S...
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Share Your Hand Tool Skills Challenge
Hi everyone. I think there must be a whole lot of you out there who have developed woodworking ha...
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What is the most irritating aspect of working in your shop?
Some questions like Jim’s recent one about the need for plans and the ensuing discussion g...
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An Idea For Scroll Sawing
Awhile back I had to do some scroll sawing with the table tilted. I found it difficult to hold th...
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Hand Chopping A Mortise Tutorial
I described how to hand chop a mortise in a recent comment. Another LJ member asked if I would do...
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Award Winning Photo
This picture of an Iberion wolf was taken by Jose Luis Rodriguez and has won an award for nature ...
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New Open Segment Turning Construction Method
Just a note to tell everyone that I have edited the main blog I posted on this subject yesterday ...
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New Method Open Segment Turning Construction
Hi folks, here is the blog I promised which describes my new method of open segment construction....
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New Open Segment Construction Method
As many of you know, I am a man with modest woodworking skills but with many words to describe th...
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Jigs, Jigs, Jigs
Patron’s blog on his RAS jigs inspired me to write this blog. As we all know, most motor...
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Disk Sander Help
I just wanted to make everyone aware of my skills forum appeal for help with tips and ideas on ho...
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My Workshop (at last)
I thought I better post some pictures of my real workshop in case anyone thought I just had drawi...
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Kolrosing, an ancient art form
Awhile back Elaine had a review on some scandinavian kolrosing knives she bought. There seemed to...
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Shop-made dowels the easy way
If you want to make your own dowels without having to set-up and use a router table, here is a go...
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GARDEN BENCH WITH WEIRD JOINERY #1: STARTING THE PROJECT
My wife wants a bench at the end of the garden so she won’t have to go all the way back to ...
