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1218 days ago
by martin007
Hi all
I am in the process of designing and choosing the wood for our new bedroom furniture set. I have plenty of red oak and hard maple, along with some curly maple in the shop. I wood like to use the lumber in the making but I worry a little ...
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1227 days ago
by Betsy
The good news is I actually spent a little time in the power tool shop this weekend.
The bad news is that I apparently did not do the best job protecting my metal surfaces while I was recovering and I have some rust issues. Not bad rust, but st...
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1227 days ago
by coloradoclimber
The box is made out of 1/2 inch plywood throughout with 1/4 by 3/4 hardwood edging. The similar colored pieces are either identical or mirrors. All of the joinery is either dados for the box or half lap for the edging.
The edging is 1...
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1222 days ago
by teenagewoodworker
hey everyone,
just got a commission from the club that i am in for school to build a money box for when we have bake sales and other various sales. I am planning on making it out of Jatoba because thats what i have around right now. i am plan...
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1223 days ago
by CloneZero
Woodwork Joints : Where wood meets wood to stick!
If you need to connect two pieces of wood, this blog is an excellent resource. Lot’s of useful and clear illustrations too.
Table of ContentsDOVETAIL GROOVING JOINTS FOR CURVED WORK M...
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1225 days ago
by itsme_timd
Decisions, decisions!
Lots of great stuff to choose from in Round 2. I have to admit, I made out pretty good on this! ;-)
For blanks I took some spalted oak ~ apple ~ pear ~ bamboo ~ sassafrass ~ English yew ~ spalted holly ~ red cedar ~ ca...
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1220 days ago
by AbenakiMan
Has anyone read a good Table saw book like the one offered by Mr Hylton on Routers or the Bandsaw book by Lonnie Bird? I just bought the Hitachi C10FL and want to be sure it’s tuned properly, if that’s possible. I just took it out of...
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1223 days ago
by Rick
I don’t know who all will read this, but I first wanted to say thanks to all who welcomed me onto the site.
My experience is limited to making a cross-bow in 9th grade shop, a small 3-shelf hanging bookshelf in 10th done with hand tools (...
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1219 days ago
by Betsy
As anyone who has tried to write a detailed blog knows, you can’t think of it all. Seems I missed an important part of setting up your miter gauge to get a good miter corner.
Someone IM’d me and said he was having trouble getting a ...
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1222 days ago
by Blake
I had a couple of hours to work on my table the other night.
Most of the time was spent sanding my Mahogany with my homemade thickness sander. I love the figure in this mahogany but it is hell to work with. If you plane or even scrape it the su...
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1220 days ago
by RobH
Ok, once again, a week with no real visible progress, so no pics this weekend. I managed to get the water based polyurethane on before the cold snap hit, so I did not have to bring those huge pieces into our tiny house and try to get them finishe...
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1227 days ago
by Martin Sojka
Hey matt (napaman), no need to bug me about the next, previous project buttons – anymore ;) Each project page now features 2 new navigation widgets with thumbnails of the previous and next projects. Just click on any thumbnail and you will b...
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1224 days ago
by mhawkins2
I am beginning to think that a dead on PERFECT miter is about like big foot or the Loch Ness monster. We’ve all heard of it, a few claim to have achieved it, most of us probably don’t believe it. I am an engineer in occupation and by...
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1224 days ago
by mhawkins2
After edge profiling a 5’ piece of Jatoba and very very carefully cutting a miter frame for 10” x 10” panel, I was rather pleased with myself. It was by no means the perfect miter, but it certainly will not haunt my dreams the w...
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1223 days ago
by Charles Mullins
Here’s a couple of pictures to show where I am right now.
I’ve made some fretwork for the clock hood.
And have veneered the lower panel and door with burl walnut and cross banded the outside of each.
I am currently painting th...
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1217 days ago
by Derek Lyons
Thought I’d better alert you to this scam. Be careful…you could be next.
A warning for those Jocks who may be regular Home Depot customers. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. Simply going out ...
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1230 days ago
by Heyz
First of all, thanks to Trifern and Max for beating me to posting anything. They’ve given me welcome comments before I could do anything! Been reading this site daily for a couple of months now inspiring myself to build again…. So I&...
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1217 days ago
by Heyz
As a recap in case you haven’t read the first post, I’m trying to build a unique cribbage board while keeping with the traditional layout. My idea, have an inlay for the track. Difficult & challenging? Probably. Fun and excitin...
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1229 days ago
by Heyz
I’ve got an idea to build my dad a cribbage board for Christmas. What’s going to make it unique is that I’d like to inlay the tracks with three separate species of wood into a nice maple base.
So now the question is, how ...
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1224 days ago
by Heyz
First I’ll update you as to the the wood I used. I talked to my friend and he reminded me what we made it with. The sides and bulkheads are fir, with marine ply to skin them. And the plank (which I don’t have a picture of yet) is la...
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1228 days ago
by Eric
Since we’ve moved to Kota Kinabalu, I’ve been sick almost the whole time. Nothing serious, but bad enough that I’ve had no desire to get in the shop when I’ve had free time. I’m finally starting to get well. And today...
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1219 days ago
by Les Hastings
The crest rails are made up of three pieces. One piece is about half of the rail. Another piece of about a quarter of the rail is milled and glued to the half piece. A filler piece is then glued into the open quarter section with craft paper betwe...
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1224 days ago
by Dan Lyke
This should really probably go over at Home Refurbers, but I started this series here, so I’ll continue it. Amidst everything else, I got the pantry shelves (not really a pantry, but since that’s the function of these shelves, thatR...
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1223 days ago
by Woodbutchery
Just spent the last two weeks on vacation (I get a ton of it, and I can only roll-over so much of it), and I spent much of it on small projects around the house (see my 1st three project entries).
Sometime yesterday I figured that I was just ig...
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1217 days ago
by sry
As a beginning woodworker without a large shop full of tools, I’m was at first skeptical about my ability to get by and produce interesting things without tools like a table saw or band saw. One of the things that’s really helped me g...
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1221 days ago
by Alan
So I have re worked the designs on a few of them and I am almost there with them to start making them en-mass for sales and gifts.
Need a bit more space around the legs and wings for painting. He is make out of red oak and I wanted him lef...
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1226 days ago
by Keith Cruickshank
Many of you probably cut dovetails with power tools & jigs —and so do I. But for some projects, I really prefer cutting them by hand and I never tire of learning how to do it better. That’s what took me on one of my recent video “t...
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1224 days ago
by Damian Penney
So here is my progress so far, definitely getting closer :)
Just need to add the vises, do some final flattening of the top once I flip it et voila :)
And a quick pic of my new pride and joy :)
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1222 days ago
by Dooley
Hello fellow lumber-jocks,
Well we’ve finally got “mostly” unpacked here in Denver, and what a great city! The shop tools made it all very safe and sound, I really only had to do very minor adjustments to true everything back ...
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1226 days ago
by coloradoclimber
I’m building a beside table / nightstand for my son. I found a set of plans I liked on the net, purchased from PlansNow originally published in Workbench Magazine.
Even though I have the plans I’m still drawing it up in sketchu...
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