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9 days ago
by Gary Lucas
This video show a different time and attitude about woodworking. Imagine turning down 1 million dollars for a project…A tribute to great scrollsawers. Lnk is http://link.live.net/?l=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSg-IV03eVf4&...
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10 days ago
by DIYaholic
I HAVE made some progress in my fight against airborne contaminants. The 3/4” ply that I’m building my air cleaner out of has all been cut to size. I have to say, I don’t enjoy the process of cutting sheet goods down to size. I d...
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10 days ago
by Andy Panko
I wanted to make the bench’s stretchers as proportionately beefy as the top and legs. Since my legs are 5” square, I figured it would work well, and look good, to make the stretchers about 3 1/2” high, and about 2 1/2” thi...
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9 days ago
by Patrick Jaromin
My lovely wife spent her weekend watching the kids and provided me with nearly two full days of shop time. In the intervening days I’d decided I wanted to build one of the guitars from cherry. I have a rather large stockpile and had read...
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8 days ago
by Roger
Here’s just a few scraps that have been saved from the firepit. There’s always something you can use a cutoff, or leftover, and whatever for something useful. Maple cutoffs
Thin Strips (if the scrap is large enough to be safely cut)...
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7 days ago
by Craftsman on the lake
The bed is done and standing on it’s side in the shop so that I can have a little room to move around. Time to start the bed head. The design is that of laminated inlays that alternate between oak and maple. Oak is a wood that when finished na...
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7 days ago
by coopman
Hello lumber jocks! I am sitting on the bus right now riding to Boston but I just wanted to let you all know that I have moved my blog to word press! I want to try and draw in all kinds if readers and with the iPhone app posting is 1,000 times eas...
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9 days ago
by BerBer5985
I didn’t have a whole lot of time in the shop this weekend between my son’s wrestling meet on Saturday and baseball tryouts on Sunday, but I had a few hours, so I jointed and planed the pieces for the leg 5” square leg lamination...
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11 days ago
by KnickKnack
On thursday night, February 9th 2012, our dog, Leão (portuguese for lion), died.
They suspected that he had liver cancer, but, even so, the exploratory operation shouldn’t have killed him.But it did.
The life of a dog in Portugal is no...
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10 days ago
by Jim Bertelson
PREFACE.I just had to have a woodworking vise on my multipurpose bench..So, if you want to see how a lot of work, some off the wall design, and worrying about the details solved a tough problem, read on. And as usual, we will have a little fun alo...
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11 days ago
by PatBrownfield
I’m new to the web site and I guess I forget a few details about my first project. I found the plans in the American Woodworker Great Book of Woodworking Projects. I made the love seat out of construction grade western red cedar that I purc...
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8 days ago
by Eric_S
My initial crude drawings didn’t give me a sense of the proportions of the apron heights. I wanted to see how it would look with the 3.5” height against the 14” leg all assembled. So I made a real sketchup to size…
I t...
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10 days ago
by BTimmons
Today I paid a visit to cabmaker, who extended the generous invitation to see his shop and use his equipment to mill some rough stock that I picked up a little while back. He’s a pro and I’m a newcomer. I had a lucky find one day and s...
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11 days ago
by Craftsman on the lake
Once again, this blog series is a queen size platform bed made of hard maple.
The platform or actually the bed is done. Yet to make is the bed head. I decided to finish the bed, sand and poly it then flip it onto it’s side so that I can g...
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10 days ago
by BerBer5985
I decided to go ahead and use the 7” woodworking vise as the end vise. I mortised it into the side all with a chisel and hammer. Next is the chop and dog holes. So then I can use it to prepare the legs which are already cut roughly to size...
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7 days ago
by SuburbanDon
This is a (commissioned) copy of a table we have that belonged to my wife’s grandfather. He taught wood shop in high school. This was a big challenge for me. I learned one important thing:
- Make a template and route any curved surfaces. Hand s...
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10 days ago
by JL7
This is one of those projects that was dreamt up in the middle of the night – I am still gluing up sections of reclaimed bowling alley lane (more of that story to follow) and it is always tricky to keep things straight and flat.
The first...
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7 days ago
by DonR
The Drafting table is close to done I might have it reassembled in the next day or so and get to post it.
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10 days ago
by rance
I got my weekly(or is it daily) email from Fine Woodworking(FWW) and they had an advertisement for the beginning of a Dovetail Techniques series by Stephen Hammer on several kinds of dovetails. I watched the preview and was so fascinated with the ...
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10 days ago
by Tyrone
Hello,I haven’t made any progress on the saw itself since my last post, but I have made some significant planning progress.
I’ve been having some fun(By fun, I mean wringing the ideas out of my brain.) with Sketc...
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10 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl)
It snowed last night. Not quite the storm that they were predicting, but then again it never seems to be. I think that is how we become complacent and then when we are least expecting it we get hit. I can’t really tell how much yet becaus...
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10 days ago
by Jimmy0x52
First step on my DIY Dust Collector modeled off many of yours is complete. I’ve attached the hoses and sealed up most of the cracks with caulk. There are still some holes that I just have foil tape on that I need to work on sealing up more. ...
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10 days ago
by woodywoodwizard
I have been trying to build my own “vertile” table saw and would appreciate some imput, I have no idea where to start, I would like very much to keep it simple for cash flow reasons, if I could build one from everyday items that could ...
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7 days ago
by mnpete
Not a lot of fine woodworking going on yet, but getting closer to the point where I could do some actual woodwork while continuing to set up. I did get to work indoors the whole time though! :)
http://secondwindworkshop.blogspot.com/2012/02/c...
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7 days ago
by HillbillyShooter
Every bench tool (with the possible exception of my drill press) required me to fine tune the tool before it was ready to use. Instructions for such requisite procedure were either included (as with the radial arm saw and the table saw) or readil...
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11 days ago
by Wood_smith
I just wrapped up my first experience as an exhibitor at a woodworking show- the Hamilton Woodworking Show in Hamilton, Ontario, about 45 minutes from Toronto airport. It was a great experience, a little smaller than I thought (they say the number...
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7 days ago
by Beginningwoodworker
In a few days I am going to get the materials to fix my 10×12 shed, I am going to tear off the flat roof, replace some rot and put the shed on blocks!
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9 days ago
by laxbograt
Well it was a productive weekend.
First I got the lumber for the legs eight 2×6’s they were pretty nice so I didn’t plane them, something in retrospect I wish I had, I just glued them and clamped them in two stacks of four.
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10 days ago
by thiswoodshop
My clamps was always just laying around my shop. They ended up every ware from may table saw to behind my lath. I searched the internet high and low and did not fins any good ideas that will fir my shop. Don’t get me wrong there is plenty of good ...
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11 days ago
by Lifesaver2000
I have completed the final finishing and assembly of this project. I was able to spray four coats of Sherwin-Williams Wood Classics® Waterborne Polyurethane Varnish. I also mounted the drawer slides and fronts. The top was attached with tableto...
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