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  1. Sapele Side Gate

    We needed a gate for the side of our house. So I designed this one in Sketchup and made it out of Sapele. There were lots of firsts for me on this project. First time working with hardwood. First time building something from my own design in Sketchup. First time edge jointing and glueing boards...
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    Wherein our protagonist drinks the crazy juice, and decides to use 4/4 lumber. So brief background is that about a 18 months ago, I bought a load of lumber off ebay. While there, I ended up also buying 350 BF of flatsawn white ash for $100. I figured, even if it ends up being 'test' pieces...
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    Roubo modifications - please poke holes in this design My dear LJ friends and community! Please tell me what you like/dislike about this idea. the thought is to make a roubo workbench out of 4×4 nominal lumber (Lowes has 4×4 doug fir for about $1 a linear foot) This will be my first of two...
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    Building a Workbench Is Easy, and Lazy Mortises I'd pretty much run out of excuses for not starting the Big Bench Build. Every week at church I see the kind woman who arranged for me to get all that beautiful lumber for free. I always fear the question, "So have you built it yet?" Don't ask me...
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    Wagon vise from scratch The bench I'm building is a small one due to very limited shop area (about 10 by 4 feet), so the top is 40" by 10" (laminated pine) plus tool tray (about 6" wide). As for vises after some considerations I decided to go for leg vise and the wagon vise. It took me a...
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    Starting Fine Woodworking Magazine published an article many years ago of a table that Sydney Barnsley built in the 1920's. The table is now in a museum in Cheltenham England. The article had original drawings that I redrew in Sketchup. I traveled to England last year to see the original and...
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    Getting the Jump on Lent Getting the Jump on Lent - Lent, an Old English word meaning "spring," the time of lengthening days, is that season of the Church between Ash Wednesday and Easter. During the season of Lent, many Christians commit to fasting or giving up certain types of luxuries as a...
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