| This blog is written by Chris Davis | 60 entries so far |
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Daily Update #4: November 18, 2009
Video Update for November 18, 2009. For more live video see my Current Projects link at wwbed...
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Daily Update #3: November 17, 2009
Daily video update for November 17, 2009 For live video see my Current Projects link at wwbeds....
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Daily Update #2: November 13, 2009
I’ll be out on a fiield trip for most of the morning, but the shop is still open. We will ...
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Daily Update #1: November 12, 2009
This is a new feature that I’ll be starting. It is recorded video update on what will be g...
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Back to better video
I’ve been having problems with my video feed lately. I keep breaking by good cameras (shop...
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Your Not So Ordinary Platform #2: The Platform
The platform is a four leg design. The legs are 6 1/2” high with a 4 1/2” runner in ...
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Your Not So Ordinary Platform #1: The Plan
I will be making two platform beds for a single client. One will have a very large headboard and...
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Murphy wall bed Build - Finished
Got the two beds and the bookcase built in record time, two days. It help that the customer will...
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Murphy wall bed Build - Day 2
Got a lot done yesterday. All parts cut, banded, edges cleaned up and panels processed. I have ...
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Murphy wall bed Build
Today I’ll be building a pair of murphy wall with a bookcase separating them. This will be...
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Dying Maple to a Cherry Finish
Today I’ll be staining some maple. The customer want a cherry finish. Not a new cherry wo...
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Skateboard Bed #3: A little set back
I completed the build on the skateboard and sent the pictures to the customer. I wasn’t ex...
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Live Shop Cameras and Woodshop New
Woodshop News, a trade magazine called with some interest in my live video feed a couple months a...
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Skateboard Bed #2: The Axle, Wheels, and Trucks
I did some proportion work and decided I need 6” wheels. The wheels I found have barring that ar...
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Skateboard Bed #1: The Plan
I am going to build a platform bed with the theme of a skateboard. It is a simple platform with ...
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A Little About Finishing
I had a LJ send a message about finishing. I thought maybe I’d post the question and answe...
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Oak Wall/Canopy #6: Final Assembly
It is dyed, stained and sprayed. Now for the final assembly. There is a lot more on this projec...
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Oak Wall/Canopy #5: The Finish
The finish was sprayed yesterday. It was a combination of a dye stain, wiping stain, and a prote...
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Oak Wall/Canopy #4: Add The Canopy
As I said in an earlier post, this is uncharted territory. I’ve built a wall unit and I’ve built...
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Oak Wall/Canopy #3: The Headboard Wall Unit
The wall is up! I have the piers, headboard, and light bar built and temporally set up in the sh...
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Oak Wall/Canopy #2: The Piers
I have the piers or the side bookcases built. These are bookcases like I normally build for my m...
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Oak Wall/Canopy #1: The Plan
This project is something a little different. It is a bedroom wall unit, not a murphy wall bed, ...
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Chi Omega Dorm Room #7: Installed
This is the installation of the 17 beds in the Chi Omega house. These were installed in the thir...
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Chi Omega Dorm Room #6: Singles Finished
I now have the singles finish up. You can see the final post at http://lumberjocks.com/projects/...
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Chi Omega Dorm Room #5: Back from Camp
I am back from camp and ready to see what was completed. I left with most parts cut out and at l...
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King Excalibur Bookcases
I have the bookcase built for the murphy bed. They went together fairly quickly. I made a jig t...
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Chi Omega Dorm Room #4: Cutting, Cutting, And More Cutting
Started cutting out the parts to the 9 additional single beds only and WOW that is a lot of cutti...
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King Excalibur
I’ve started on a king size murphy bed. King is not one of the “standard” sizes. As in standar...
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Chi Omega Dorm Room #3: Bunk Prototypes
Here are the two designs for the bunk beds. I’ll eventually build 3 of one style and 4 of ...
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Chi Omega Dorm Room #2: Prototype 1
Like I said in the last blog, I don’t usually make prototypes. But since there will be so many, ...
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Chi Omega Dorm Room #1: The Plan
I am building a total of 17 beds for the Chi Omega Sorority house. There will be 10 single beds ...
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Boat Bed #5: Final assembly
The finish is dry and all that is left is the final assembly. Now these many pieces have to be p...
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Boat Bed #4: The Finish
It is now time to finish the custom boat bed. The customer picked two colors form a Minwax broch...
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Boat Bed #3: Bow footboard Toy box
I worked on the bow of the boat bed. This is a design that I came up with. You may have seen the...
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Boat Bed #2: Headboard and siderails
I didn’t make as much progress as I wanted on my boat bed. Trying to get a few other bed r...
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Boat Bed #1: The Plan
I am about to start on a boat bed. This is one that I’ve built several times. This one is...
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Train Bed #7: Completed
The train is back from graphics and completed. Well almost. I am thinking about putting a bell...
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Train Bed #6: Pre-Assembly
The train project is chugging along fine. Everything is built and the base color has been applie...
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Train Bed #5: The Finish
I’ve put the finish on the train bed. It is just the base color. The rest will be a vinyl simil...
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Train Bed #4: Details
Today I worked on some of the smaller details. I built the smoke stack, cattle guard, the front ...
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Train Bed #3: The build
A lot got completed today. Actually I got most of it complete minus a few details. First I cu...
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Train Bed #2: Layout
The first step I wanted to do was to lay it out. I took a scrap piece of cardboard and made a li...
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Train Bed #1: The Plan
This is something that I ‘m new to, blogging about the building process of a project while ...
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Power Point Video
Here is a Powerpoint video that I just converted for my site. I used a great site http://www.aut...
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New Showroom Cam
We have now added a Showroom cam to our live video feed. We put this camera in our showroom area ...
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Christmas #3: Old Christmas Commerical
This is an old commerical that I did over 20 years ago with my brother. Don’t let any cust...
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Christmas #2: When Santa's away, the elves will play!
Elves just want to have fun too! These are the guys from my shop.<div><div>Try JibJab Send...
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A Wooden Trampoline?
This is a work in progress. Not from me but my youngest daughter. Every once in a while one of ...
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Christmas #1: Santa Outsources
NORTH POLE – Due to the increasing population of the world, it has been reported that Santa...
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Shop Computer
I wanted to share with my fellow LJ’s about my new shop computer. My computer has been loc...
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IWF #2: Norm Abram
I asked for some input for some equipment that I was needing on the last blog. I got more people...
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IWF #1: IWF bound and need some advice
I am on my way to IWF, You know the Disneyland for woodworkers, and I need some help. I have two...
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Update of video
I have added a new service for my customers. Along with the live video that I have, I added an a...
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God and woodworking
Referring to my live shop feed, I’ve had a lot of people say to me “I don’t know if I could stan...
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Live view of my shop
This is a project that I’ve been working for the past 9-10 months. I posted a Blog ( see www....
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Plans and Drawings #1: Combination Loft
I had a request or two on how I made the Combination Loft. I was going to scan my notes and emai...
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It's been awhile
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a chance to post any new project or even look at some of the...
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Letter For Santa
Just for fun. I found this old commercial that my brother and I did back in 1986. I’m the ol...
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Interactive Design
For the most part the design process is left to me on the furniture I build. The customer jus...
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Live! on the internet
Over the years I’ve been keeping my customers informed on what I’ve been working on t...
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