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05-26-2020 10:18 PM
by htl
Got a little more figured out.
Long way from perfect but it should get the job done.
Just about time to figure out some wheels. yes!!!
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05-26-2020 12:08 PM
by Dave Rutan
The F-holes are located using measurements I have in a book. I traced the actual shape from a template I made from sheet aluminum (a lithographic printing plate)
First I drill out the round holes on either end using a 1/4 in. And 5/16 in. bit.
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05-25-2020 07:45 PM
by htl
Getting the feel of how it needs to be.
These parts will be glued one on top of the other so need to have the parts shaped and sanded before they are added.
I usually don’t build models this way but seemed like it will work for thi...
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05-25-2020 04:57 PM
by sansoo22
Don’t get too excited by the exclamation points on the title as the new table saw is just a Delta 36-725T2.
By this point in time I was supposed to have new 200 amp service and a sub panel in the shop all wired up for a “real”...
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05-25-2020 08:35 AM
by WoodenWorldDenic
Make your own unique wooden spectacle box or sunglasses.
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05-25-2020 07:36 AM
by Mark Wilson
It was going to be an Objet de Fine Arte. It would be called simply, “Nuts.”
A couple weeks ago, I was in a parking lot, standing in the shade of a tree. I noticed these clusters hanging from the ends of many branches. All at once, ...
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05-24-2020 07:41 PM
by Ross Leidy
With all the mortises finished, I can finally take the pieces back to the router table for final shaping, which was a combination of different radius round overs – 9/16”, 1/2”, and 1/8”. In some places I stopped short and ...
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05-24-2020 04:34 PM
by Ross Leidy
The back of the chair will be woven at the same time as the front, and there’s a clever technique that was used to hide the knots when sections of cording are tied together. Caleb James details this in a two-part article in Popular Woodwork...
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05-24-2020 05:22 AM
by knexster
Today I made a lot of progress, I finished all the joinery on the cabinet panels, and started getting everything assembled. I also painted the border of the mobile base.
Since I’ve only ever built one cabinet (for my router table using pl...
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05-24-2020 03:43 AM
by woodify
I don’t have the space to plant rows of potatoes in a garden so I’m trying a raised potato box.
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05-23-2020 10:09 PM
by Craftsman on the lake
My digital scale was just not accurate. Cheap yes but boy did it have a range all over the place. I could get a more expensive one, but heck, it’s just to find the weight of my lures when I make them.
Coins have a pretty good standard...
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05-23-2020 12:57 PM
by JimDaddyO
Oh my! A lot of work to get very little done. Mistakes are made and not for the last time. Oh well, we work our way through them. This series contains measurements and descriptions and suggestions of alternate methods so you can build this thi...
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05-23-2020 05:21 AM
by knexster
Today I cut all the panels for the cabinet boxes to their final dimensions, and hopefully I’ll get dados on tomorrow so I can get them assembled. As you can see, I’m using nice plywood and ugly plywood. The nice plywood is for any of t...
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05-22-2020 08:17 PM
by htl
This is one I have been thinking about for a long time and had even started collecting pictures for ideas and just never went any farther.Well the time is right and will be a pretty quick one if I’m seeing it right, [The kind I like best the...
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05-22-2020 02:55 AM
by knexster
Had time today to simply add a round over around the edges if the eventual mobile base. I’m planning to assemble the rest and get some orange paint on it this weekend. Hopefully I can start the boxes for the drawers too. Also, see below for ...
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05-22-2020 02:11 AM
by Ross Leidy
Not much to show for today’s work. I made the arm-to-back-stile mortises (the final ones for the chair) and then tapered the top of the arms on the bandsaw and planed them to clean them up.
I’ll soon be at the place where I...
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05-21-2020 08:32 PM
by Dave Polaschek
First order of business today was putting the back on the carcass. This involved cutting plywood, so I got out the saw horses and circular saw. Three cuts to get the 1/4” maple plywood to size (or between 1/16 and 1/8 oversized, I’m not accurate e...
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05-21-2020 08:06 PM
by bandit571
Not working as fast or as long as I used to…but…had the parts all cross cut to size…time to start making box joints
Used this 1/4” chisel, to lay out the fingers….then a bandsaw to make a lot of cuts…seems to...
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05-21-2020 03:51 PM
by C_rson
I am in my early twenties just graduating college. In my spare time I have been fantasizing about woodworking through YouTube. I guess I started way back in boy scouts or cub scouts whittling little sticks with a knife. It shifted to various schoo...
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05-20-2020 10:42 PM
by RLA1974
After a couple of years of trying to find an antique router plane and being dissatisfied with various hags-tooth and poor-man’s-router attempts, I decided to bite the bullet and make one with all the features I like stolen from the old Stanl...
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05-20-2020 09:28 PM
by Dave Polaschek
I finished test-fitting all the pieces of the brace till today. Turns out a dovetail plane is super handy for this part of the project. For the uprights that go between the sections in the bottom, I needed to take from one to three passes with the...
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05-20-2020 02:44 PM
by jamsomito
I had this blade stabilizer handed down to me from someone who didn’t use it. I was warned I wouldn’t be able to utilize my full cutting depth with it on so I just never bothered. My cuts have been fine with thin kerf blades so far s...
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05-20-2020 03:21 AM
by bandit571
Not moving too well….the face plant on my sidewalk ( sober, BTW) seems to have messed a few parts I need to move..in order to build a box or two..Fingers on the box were a bit wider, than before….less chopping required. Managed to ge...
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05-20-2020 01:17 AM
by Brit
A few months before the lockdown, I was driving through the New Forest National Park where I live and saw a tree that had been cut into sections after it fell across the road. Naturally I did what any woodworker would do, slammed on the brakes, po...
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05-19-2020 10:25 PM
by oldguy2
Hey this is the fun part of Arizona and Mornings.. Outdoor workshop. Under the canopy Fan blowing on you. Staining a Project. So the base units of the bookcase are ready for stain. And this takes some music and patience and look...
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05-19-2020 08:11 PM
by Dave Polaschek
Got some shop time again today, and I cut a new bottom piece for the carcass of my brace till, replacing the one I cut wrong when I shortened it.
Going back to the plan:
The pieces I had as 39 inches are now 38.5 inches long. Otherwise, ...
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05-19-2020 05:02 PM
by A Slice of Wood Workshop
I have had this level for a while now. I found it luckily at an antique store for only $10. Most of them around my area sell for more and are in bad condition or are very over priced. Finding this was a nice little score. I started the restore bac...
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05-19-2020 03:46 AM
by knexster
Today I just cut the cheap plywood and the oak plywood down to the 26.5 depth dimensions. Which, total side note, but of the two oak plywood sheets I have, one is significantly heavier than the other. So much so, I checked to see if somehow I had ...
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05-19-2020 02:09 AM
by Ross Leidy
The technique I used to mark the mortise locations on the arms was fiddly to get right, but in the end it worked out. On the top of the front leg, I transferred its mortise layout lines onto the leg’s sides so they could be seen from undern...
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05-19-2020 01:00 AM
by Craftsman on the lake
I’ve had my sawstop professional cabinet saw since 2017. I’ve used it a fair amount.
Yesterday I’m cutting a small piece of PVC, I turn the saw off and quickly walk away with the piece I cut. In the couple of seconds it takes ...
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05-25-2020 08:35 AM
by WoodenWorldDenic
Make your own unique wooden spectacle box or sunglasses.
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05-24-2020 03:43 AM
by woodify
I don’t have the space to plant rows of potatoes in a garden so I’m trying a raised potato box.
205 views |
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05-23-2020 10:09 PM
by Craftsman on the lake
My digital scale was just not accurate. Cheap yes but boy did it have a range all over the place. I could get a more expensive one, but heck, it’s just to find the weight of my lures when I make them.
Coins have a pretty good standard...
307 views |
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05-23-2020 12:57 PM
by JimDaddyO
Oh my! A lot of work to get very little done. Mistakes are made and not for the last time. Oh well, we work our way through them. This series contains measurements and descriptions and suggestions of alternate methods so you can build this thi...
148 views |
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05-19-2020 05:02 PM
by A Slice of Wood Workshop
I have had this level for a while now. I found it luckily at an antique store for only $10. Most of them around my area sell for more and are in bad condition or are very over priced. Finding this was a nice little score. I started the restore bac...
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05-18-2020 09:10 AM
by WoodenWorldDenic
In this episode I make an independent air flow, assemble and adjust the Premium Homemade Router Table and test it in making a spectacle box.
I apologize to everyone, I forgot to put a link to the video
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05-17-2020 05:09 PM
by WirelessWoodworker
My next project is going to be a fairly simple Stickley style coat rack or coat tree maybe it’s called. We enter our house via the garage door probably 90% of the time and our coat closet it by the front door, which is through our dining room fro...
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05-17-2020 03:10 PM
by WoodshopTherapy
I recently met with Mike Waldt, a Woodturner from the UK and we made a video together to provide advice about how to buy a wood lathe. This was our first time putting together a video where we have a discussion about tools, so let us know what yo...
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05-11-2020 12:52 PM
by WoodenWorldDenic
Main goals of this upgrade is:1) Removing old Manesmann router
On the old Manesmann router, the shaft twisted,
so that it became unusable. 2) Inserting a more powerful router BOSCH POF 1200 AE3) Enabling independent...
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05-10-2020 06:07 PM
by WirelessWoodworker
I can’t believe that I didn’t know about the blogs here on LJ! Think I’m blinded by all the fantastic project pictures. Anyway – this first blog I just wanted to share some recent changes/additions to my workbench.
I’m in between projec...
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05-08-2020 06:20 PM
by JimDaddyO
Getting the side panels finished up. Also giving suggestions on alternative things you may want to do as I go along. Yup, it’s fancier than need be for its intended purpose, but hey, why not? I’m enjoying the process.
https://you...
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05-04-2020 02:48 PM
by carrera4s
I recently built a wall hanging plane tray to store my hand planes on the wall. It has a bracket at the top and bottom to hold the plane. It simply slides in and drop down to stay in place. And simply lift up and out to remove. It’s made ...
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05-02-2020 01:09 AM
by woodify
Thanks to social distancing I was not able to help the home center employee measure the cuts for my 6 sheets of plywood. Instead of risking the employee making inaccurate cuts I took them home whole. I made a circular saw guide to help make accu...
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04-29-2020 03:20 PM
by Tomy Hovington
Check out my 2020 Shop tour. A little guided tour of my work space, tools and storage system.
https://youtu.be/lOfhemPwHp4
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04-28-2020 09:49 PM
by MyChipCarving
In this final lesson you’ll carve your fourth coaster in basswood AND learn how to finish your carvings.
Quick Start Chip Carving Kits are on sale here – https://mychipcarving.com/product/quick-start-chip-carving-kit/
Think about how much yo...
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