02-15-2020 11:49 AM
by Hoosierwoodcraft |
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Today, am releasing my historic woodworker tribute on Ambrose Heal, the furniture designer, manufacturer, and retailer who successfully marketed arts and craft furniture well into the 1930s.
I also created this video because I was fascinated with Mr. Heal’s business plan and his intrinsic ability to become a showman for his furniture and his retail store in downtown London.
You can see his video by clicking on https://youtu.be/DLyXYymG9-s
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02-06-2019 02:51 AM
by Matt Snyder |
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When I moved in to the small 13’ x 15’ dry cabin on the fire base in McGrath, AK it was nicer than most of the primitive cabins on base. Some of the walls had rough cut white spruce panels and there was a little hand made furniture from previous crafty resident firefighters. In the kitchen area the counter was a white painted piece of plywood braced to the wall with a simple cabinet underneath.
I figured I could do better and thus began my first major woodworking project that started m...
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07-20-2018 05:30 PM
by TimberAndAshDesigns |
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With the Farmhouse fad and the number of DIYers at its peak I found myself in a unique situation of serving multiple clients while only building one piece of furniture. I rarely build the same item twice so having a detailed sketch or plan is not the norm in my shop. Usually I will have several sketches, sometimes rough CAD style drawings but never a full blueprint of what I will be building. For this project I decided to take the design aspect one step further and create reproducible plan...
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03-18-2018 11:02 PM
by JohnMcClure |
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I visited Spain and Ireland last week, and noticed a few cool pieces of furniture. I didn’t photograph it, but I saw an antique table with a top that was about 6’ long by 24” wide, all one hardwood piece… And a lot of other older pieces with exceptionally wide panels.
My favorite furniture were these very artistic chairs, in which the structural members are mostly clear, but the noticeable portions are highly figured:
I believe it was a set of 4 chairs in a s...
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01-10-2018 04:51 PM
by davemoorefurniture |
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I’ve used routers many times to do the bulk removal of wood when shaping a solid seat. But, I’ve never done it totally freehand like I do in this video. In the past I’ve made large patterns that a router-on-sled would follow with a collar. Each subsequent pattern requires a different depth of cut and what you end up with is something that reminds me of the tiers of a quarry that undulate along the natural path of the topography, concentrically. It really makes you fe...
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02-28-2017 04:26 PM
by PPK |
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Here I’m going to outline the method I am taking to build myself a Morris Chair. I’ve been wanting to have one of these because I really like the look and the comfort, but also because I want to learn some new techniques, especially upholstery. I know there are a number of other blogs on building a Morris Chair, but they are all different, and everyone has their own unique ways of building. So here’s mine!
I am not using a plan, per se. I have been looking at lots of pic...
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01-21-2017 06:12 PM
by Daniel |
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Hey guys,
I just finsihed my pallet coffee table. Here is my implementation.
I also made a video about how to build it.
Youtube Video: DIY pallet coffee table GLOWING !
Hope you like it.
GreetsDaniel
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01-10-2017 03:55 PM
by makeBrooklyn |
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In our kitchen is an antique hoosier cabinet in need of some serious restoration. I know the antique purists will say don’t touch it, it’s worth much more with the original everything even if it is falling apart but the cabinet is not an investment so much as a place to keep our corn flakes and bread. The Front of the cabinet and drawers seem to be mostly ok. There is a bit of cracking near the end grain on the top of a couple of the face boards but they seem to be stable now...
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12-19-2016 10:57 PM
by HuckD |
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View the video
HERE.
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07-09-2016 08:36 PM
by Woodworker_Collins |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RluPurxdp9A
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