 Boards. #2: What oil?For years I used a special oil… Organoil WoodWipe… and then I discovered that the Mineral Oil touted in American blogs was available here as Paraffin Oil… the medical type found in Chemists… they both worked well…but cost between AU$24 and AU$48 per litre…[1 quart]Then Ken from Kenscraft put me onto Grape Seed Oil...Only AU$9 for the same amount…and readily available at any supermarket… I tried it and I liked it… it works great, absorbs...  HOW TO REPLACE SANDING DISC PAPER MADE EASYI am sure many L Js know this, but I’m writing to those who will know it for the first time.Say we have a disc sanding machine with a table infrnot of the velcro face holding a worn out sanding disc and we want to replace the sanding disc with new one. This article is about replacing the sanding disc without pulling the table away to expose whole the disc. You need a half page of small news paper and a pair of scissors to cut the paper a little wider than the disc itself and ...  EZ Mitre #1: Update - Using router bitsSince the original EZ mitre blog there have been variations added. To formalise the adding of new and/or additional methods to the technique I will add updates for now and re-release the whole thing if I ever get time. The main reason for this update is, as has often been asked, ‘can this technique be done using a table mounted router and ‘v’ groove bit ?’ Up until now I have been reticent to suggest this but I have just this week discovered router bits that are up ... The EZ mitre techniqueHello all. Well I seem to have whet the appetite a bit so here goes for a ‘novel’ technique for making mitred boxes. Its a bit like making a box out of paper, like they showed you at school, using a ‘net’. Only in 3D, with wood and a tablesaw (not sissors). Well first comes the board Its made from alternating strips of Maple and Rosewood of varying thickness. I won’t bore you with the details on how to make it suffice to say that all the corners must b...  Taking Better Pictures #1: Cameras and Photo EditingHello fellow woodworkers, I have enjoyed looking at all of the excellent projects displayed on LJ. They inspire designs and urge me to make that next piece even even more challenging. All these project are shown to the world via pictures. A picture is your way of expressing the time and effort you have spent on a piece. It is important to take time on the composition and setup of your picture taking to optimize the quality of your pictures. After all, you have spent countless hours wo...  Furniture Design #1: Fibonacci gauge1 • 1 • 2 • 3 • 5 • 8 • 13 • 21 • 34 – The Fibonacci Sequence I have been fascinated with The Fibonacci Sequence and The Golden Rectangle for some time. I finally got around to building a Fibonacci Gauge that was featured in WOOD Magazine. The guage maintains a consatnt proportion of 1:1.618 between the points. It is used to help determine visually appealing proportional dimensions. I am looking forward to using the guage in future projects. Follow the text below for so...  My Shop #2: Kerfmaker--Table Saw Set-upThere has been much discussion on the Bridge City Kerfmaker, but I didn’t find where it was used on a table saw without using a sled with a stop. I am sure I just missed it, but here is my version of the set-up. The Kerfmaker references off a stop on a fence, which works very well for a fence on a radial arm saw or table saw sled. But using the table saw fence to cut slots for my box bottoms and lids, I discovered there was not reference point for the Kerfmaker. I made a simple block...  Heat (i.e. boiling water) Tolerant Bowl FinishI have been doing a little research into a bowl finish that will handle boiling water. I e-mailed General Finish and here’s the exchange: Me: Is General Finishes Salad Bowl Finish, when cured, safe to use for applications that come in contact with boiling water? GF: ... a better product would be our new water base wood turners finish, it is water base and has no odor- so you would not have to wait a month to use it. I would still wait a good two weeks for the product to cure befo... ANGLES YOU MAY NEED FOR SEGMENTED TURNINGIn my project, Cyclone, a comment from Bearpie with a request to know how to find the size of an angle of any segmented project. Here I am answering his request as a blog to be available for anyone wishs to benefit of it.IF you are interested in finding it mathematically, here is an algebraical law: The Required Angle= [(360 devided by sides number) – 180] devided by 2For example:The required angle for 12 sided= [(360 devided by12)- 180] devided by 2 ...  Woodworking Inspirations of Italy #6: Woodworking Ideas & Patterns from Santa Maria del Fiore Duomo“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.” Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, cleric. Woodworking ideas and woodworking patterns gleaned from Santa Maria del Fiore Duomo can be appreciated by students of the woodworking craft. These unique and refined woodworking ideas & woodworking patterns can be learned from the Italian master craftsmen who worked in marble ... |
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