| This blog is written by Druid | 15 entries so far |
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Lathe Refurbish #1: Starting with an unexpected gift.
This is a project that has been on the back burner for a while now. It started when a neighbour d...
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Portable Carving Board
I’ve been thinking about creating a Portable Carving Board that would act as a third hand t...
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Restoring Carving Tools #2: Dealing With Rust
OK, this post deals with files rather than carving tools, but it looks like it could easily be tr...
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Toxic Woods #1: Importance of dust collection.
As we all seem to be using a wider variety of different wood types, I have been searching for inf...
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Restoring Carving Tools #1: New Life For Abused Carving Tools
I recently unpacked a set of 6 small carving tools (no maker’s marks) that I had purchased ...
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Drying With a Microwave #2: Like a Phoenix from the ashes.
PART 2After ABC’s “friend” quickly left, ABC started over again by using another piece of cedar. ...
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Drying With a Microwave #1: Part 1 - A bit of a warning.
I have noticed several enquiries and comments on Lumberjocks regarding the use of a microwave ove...
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Characteristics of different types of wood.
While looking for a bit more information on different types of wood, I came across the following ...
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Photographing long or tall projects. #2: Adjusting Your Photos.
I mentioned in the first part of this Blog that I would be adding some information on Adjusting Y...
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Photographing long or tall projects. #1: Photographing long or tall projects.
Since a lot of us produce “longer”, or taller, items that we want to post on LJ’...
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Woodworking Books #2: Another source of older traditional carving methods - 1891
Here is a link to yet another informative “older” 1891 book on wood carving that is f...
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Woodworking Books #1: Free Books On Line
For those LJ members who are interested in learning about some of the “older” methods...
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Pipe Clamp Holder for Laminations
Are you interested in taking the pain out of using pipe clamps when laminating large blocks?No pr...
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Wood Handbook by Forest Products Laboratory
For anyone looking for a detailed reference handbook on the characteristics of wood, have a look ...
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Drying Green Wood . . . or not
I was cleaning up part of my workshop this week and I came across a piece of maple that I had cut...
