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  1. Honduran Mahogany Outdoor Cabinet

    This small cabinet is made of Honduran Mahogany. It's intended purpose is to be used as an outdoor storage cabinet for garden implements to be kept on my front porch. Each side of the carcass was first Doweled and glued together, and then doweled, glued, and nailed to each other. The handle is...
  2. Shop Tip - Planing Stop for Thin Workpieces

    Don't want to tack a nail on your bench to plane a thin stock? Tip as featured in American Woodworker. Easy to make with scrap materials: -Discarded credit cards -11/16" to 3/4" dia. dowels depending on your workbench holes The depth of the stop can be adjusted by inserting more cards.
  3. ANKH 51 Guitar Pedal...

    Here we have a timber guitar pedal with laser engraved graphics and inlaid mother of pearl … The box has a sloping front and the inside was CNC routed… also with the slope… Thanks to my friend Justen for writing the G-code … All that is needed now is the electronics to be finished… but for my...
  4. Walnut Rocking Horse

    Walnut rocking horse made for grandboys due this week. Made from 2×10 walnut, joints are mortised, finish is bees wax.
  5. My sideboard

    Well, it's finally finished. I stayed home this weekend to get this done and to clean my house that is so trashed. My husband asked me nicely to please not build any more furniture for awhile. We'll see. Anyway, I like it much better in person then in these pictures. The paint is a much...
  6. Mesquite Dining Table

    I designed this Mesquite table and chairs for my wife. The top is made from native Mesquite and the base from Argentine Mesquite. The dimensions are 34"W x 52"L x 31"H. The cracks are filled in with fiberglass resin mixed with graphite powder. The finish is 6 coats of Waterlox flattened by...
  7. Woodworking Skill Share
    I am in the middle of refinishing an old rocking chair for our new nursery. It has a fairly thick layer of wax built up on it, and I know that it has to be removed before painting. I've used mineral spirits, steel wool and some elbow grease, but I'm feeling lazy and am looking for a quicker...
  8. Woodworking Skill Share
    Ok, that title got your attention, I'm sure. However, this is a serious question, about stripping furniture. If you're a pro stripper, what technique do you use? Chemical? mechanical? I would like to throw this idea out at you - glass bead blasting. It's like sand blasting, only using glass...
  9. Woodworking Skill Share
    Hello , does anyone have experience stripping polyurethane and recommendations for best product(s) to use ? My brother has a large Pine trestle table that I don't want to sand the finish off of , but rather strip and then lightly sand as needed before applying a new finish. Thank you : )
  10. Finishing
    I'd like to refinish the table top of an Eames Desk that is in a pretty bad shape in one spot. I was wondering what the best steps would be to remove the old finish? What finish would work best to bring it back to its original look? I'm concerned that sanding down the top might be problematic...
  11. Finishing
    Hi My neighbors gave me some furniture. I thought I would learn to refinish it. So I watched some videos and bought some material. First I put citris stripper on the top. Wrapped it with plastic wrap. The next day i scraped it off. I didn't care for how it looked. So later that night i put...
  12. Blogs
    Resawing Fir The Assignment Make a set of base cabinets to match the original douglas fir cabinets. As seen here. The cabinets are fir but refaced with a soon to be removed laminate. We found the doors being used as shelves in the closets. Bad Wood/ Good Wood My carpenter found a source for...
  13. Blogs
    Showing my hand... One of three ideas I'm currently pondering involves this natural edged slab-o-pine in some way… approx 6' x 8-10" x 3" That's all I've got to say. (And nothing else to show. Really.)
  14. Blogs
    Canoe With incouragement from other Lumberjocks I decided to blog on the progress of my canoe project. As you will see I have built the strongback, mounted the forms, and pretty much started stripping with pine. These pics and vids were done with my ipod so they're not the best. Future pics...
  15. Blogs
    Recycled church pews Thsre are five 12 foot long pitch pine church pews in the photo dating back to circa 1880. The client is keen to retain them in the local area in the form of a variety of furniture pieces i.e. dining table, coffee table, monks bench, butchers block, bookcase etc. The...
  16. Finishing
    I was given a old mantel from a antebellum home. It has over 10 layers of paint on it and I want to bring it back to original. If anyone knows how to make this happen and or the easy way.
  17. Finishing
    Hi. My wife chanced upon a nice (but a little banged-up) antique dresser on Craigslist. We then bought it. Now we want to refinish black and make it looked antiqued. He he. Funny, it already IS an antique. But it definitely needs a new coat of arms. Sooo…..I was thinking of just roughing up the...
  18. Woodworking Skill Share
    No, not that kind of stripping. Regarding furniture stripping. Has anyone ever used a glass bead blaster (like a sand blaster, but with miniature glass beads) for stripping wood? Years ago, when I was using one in a container booth to strip metal, I had a piece of metal from a dirty, oily...
  19. Wood & Lumber
    Hello, I am working on refinishing an old family heirloom.. My Great Grandmothers china hutch. I have it taken apart and am stripping the many layers of paint off it. There are grooves or etchings in a few pieces of the wood. I am not sure how to get in there and clean them out properly of...
  20. Finishing
    What started out to be a good day didn't end that way. I had been coating my cobbler's bench with 1-2 coats of Sealcoat per day for the last 3 days. Today I sanded with #0000 and then used a tack cloth and compressed air before taking the bench out to the driveway to add a final layer of spray...
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