1356 days ago
by dustbunny |
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After posting the quilted lazy susan project, http://lumberjocks.com/projects/21623, many of you said you would like to see the jig for this project. I set out immediately to upgrade the jig. There were cuts I wanted to incorporate into this jig, and my original was warping and needed repair anyway.
So here it is – 24” X 33”
I am pretty proud of this jig, not only because I made it, but because the cuts made from this jig are right on the money.
The first ...
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987 days ago
by McLeanVA |
21 comments »
I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original “sticks.” Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.
Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike...
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988 days ago
by McLeanVA |
50 comments »
For those of you who asked me for a tutorial on how to make the zig zag legless vegetable death table (cutting board), here is my best shot. I am far too impatient to take photos when I work, so I decided to illustrate the process using some good old Adobe PhotoShop. I hope you find this useful and informative.
I will outline the process in 10 steps below. I have assumed that when viewing these steps that basic woodworking skills are familiar to you. If you have questions, or run into snag...
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2033 days ago
by dewoodwork |
89 comments »
Construct these beautiful end grainCutting boards
Hello fellow woodworkers,In the spirit of sharing woodworking knowledge I am writing this tutorial for anyone interested in constructing these beautiful end grain cutting boards. Take a look at the photos of the four styles I have made, or create your own pattern’s and follow the steps I have outlined in this tutorial. Questions and comments are welcome, enjoy.
For this board I used maple, walnut, lyptus and purpleheart.
White oak, wa...
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26 days ago
by SPalm |
20 comments »
This is part two on my journey of sharpening my lathe tools. The first part was a Fingernail Gouge.
Now on to the standard Spindle Roughing Gouge (SRG) and a Bowl Gouge. Both of these gouges are sharpened at 45 degrees. I started out making a triangle ramp to lift the gouges at 45 degrees, with grooves to roll the gouge in, but I gave up on it for now. One problem that I had was that my roughing gouge is not a perfect circle – it is more like a smiley face. It would not roll well in the ...
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723 days ago
by CptWingnut |
11 comments »
So this is my first try at a blog, and I figured I’d start with something that is simple and probably had already been done a number of times before. Regardless, I will probably learn more about blog making than you will about pallets.
Pallet HarvestingFirst you have to find a pallet that is worth harvesting, craigslist is a good place to look, but I have had much more luck by finding a company in an industrial complex that receives a fair amount of freight. Target places that have h...
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730 days ago
by Jake Brain |
13 comments »
I spent a lot of time looking on the internet for a Jig or fixture to use to install a set of quadrant hinges. The quadrant hinge is a complicated-looking L-shaped hinge that is use in the jewelry boxes that I make. It helps to remember that a quadrant hinge is simply a butt hinge with integral lid stay or stop.The arms of the hinge extend along the sides of the lid and base of the box and the internal stop bar extends from and recesses into a mortise in the box wall and lid. The jewelry box ...
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127 days ago
by Grampa_Doodie |
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The Front Legs
Note: When I talk about the many parts of this chair, I name them as if I were sitting in the chair.
As mentioned in the previous class, the front legs just might be the easiest major part of the chair to create.
I also mentioned in the “Introduction” part of this class that I chose to laminate two pieces of cherry for the front legs. So once I had my cherry stock laminated, all I needed to do was to bring that laminated stock down to 1 1/2 inches thick via the thickne...
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152 days ago
by Grampa_Doodie |
5 comments »
The Upper & Lower Crest Rails
Note: When I talk about the many parts of this chair, I name them as if I were sitting in the chair.
Now that you’ve completed your back splats, it’s time to create their future home. And that’s where the crest rails come into play.
Seeing that these two parts are going to be readily seen from both front or back, I wanted to make sure that I picked out some really nice blocks of cherry with exceptionally beautiful grain. And I’m so glad I did. It see...
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74 days ago
by GnarlyErik |
9 comments »
Here are some little tricks you can use when you are trying to clamp something bigger or longer than your available clamps.
‘Joining’ clamps: Sometimes it is possible to simply clamp one clamp to another, with their business (working) dogs to the outside of your work as with pipe clamps, but in the case of door clamps this is hard or impossible to do since you can not rotate the dogs of the clamps.
Once neat solution is to use a piece of scrap as a ‘joiner’, sandwiching it between the c...
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