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mahogony/ironwood writing desk #1: my writing desk

Blog entry by Jeremy Hill posted 89 days ago 353 reads 0 times favorited 12 comments Add to Favorites Watch
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Can I put pics in the blog? I’d like to share my project with you guys, but it would be better if you can see it. Let me know please.
We were given an overflowing truckload of scrap hardwood a fellow woodworker who was moving to south america. A lot of it was t and g floor cut offs and most of the ironwood planks were stained half way down the length and most all of it was stock rejected due to imperfections. So I thought it was a great opportunity to hone my joinery skills and do something useful with all this beautiful free hardwood. I only break it out when I have time to work on it, right now it lives safely wrapped up in the shed. With caution tape and a plywood fort around it. It’s my baby, gotta keep those coffee mugs from finding their way onto it!

-- Jeremy Hill


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Scott Bryan

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posted 89 days ago

Jeremy, yes you can post pictures in blog and forum posts. They help support textual descriptions well. Here is a blog by GaryK that explains how to do this. Essentially you have to email your pictures to a third party host such as Photobucket or Flickr and then copy the direct link to paste in the blog tab.

Projects and workshop pictures can be posted directly from your computer.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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Jeremy Hill

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posted 89 days ago

Photobucket not one single shred of anything metal in my desk. All panel joints are stile and rail, legs joined to side panels with a mortise and tenon joint and are almost seamless. I can’t wait to get back to work on it. Today might be the day!

-- Jeremy Hill

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Jeremy Hill

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posted 89 days ago

Photobucket, it has been a lot of work and even more head scratching, but when I dry fit all my panels to me legs they slipped perfectly into position under the top. Sweet

-- Jeremy Hill

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Jeremy Hill

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posted 89 days ago

desk leg router detail stile and rail legs, before glue up

-- Jeremy Hill

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posted 89 days ago

Photobucket

-- Jeremy Hill

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Jeremy Hill

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posted 89 days ago

Photobucket

-- Jeremy Hill

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posted 89 days ago

PhotobucketPhotobucket

-- Jeremy Hill

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Karson

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posted 88 days ago

Jeremy: You don’t have to stop after one picture you can just keep on typing and adding pictures and post it when you are completed.

Nice job on the construction.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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patron

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posted 88 days ago

great work !
great gift too , from your friend .

welcome !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

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CaptainSkully

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posted 88 days ago

Very cool! Welcome to LJ’s! I just bought a truckload of old growth Honduran Mahogany. Can’t wait to make some sawdust. Can’t wait to see more pics.

-- You can't control the wind, but you can trim your sails

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Beginningwoodworker

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posted 88 days ago

Great project, Jeremy!

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

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a1Jim

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posted 88 days ago

Looking good thanks for sharing

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

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