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  1. Wormy Elm with Walnut Hinge/Splines

    My first experience with Oklahoma elm and dovetail splines. The elm was kind of 'stringy' but worked well. I really like the grain pattern and color. First dovetail splines and they weren't as easy as I thought but came out well. I filled the wormy areas on the outside of the box and left them...
  2. Marquetry Box featuring Shipwright Hinge

    I was commissioned by a client to build a box for her daughter as a Christmas gift. Her daughter is really into horses, and she came back from a recent trip to Kentucky with an ornamental horse motif that she really loved. My client asked if I could incorporate this motif into the design, and...
  3. Drop leaf table made from Mahogany

    Drop Leaf table-A Maloof inspired 36" diameter drop leaf table out of Mahogany. There is wooden hand shaped hinge that has wooden supports underneath to hold up the leafs. The pedistal base is all hand shaped to resemble tree roots. This piece could serve as a game table or even a nice sofa...
  4. Trinket Box With Wooden Hinges

    This was my first attempt at this type of hinge. I was pretty happy with it when I dry fitted them, but when I glued them in place, the one on the right didn't fully seat. It stuck out maybe 1/16". I thought "No problem, the clamps will seat it.", but with the wax paper and caul in place, I...
  5. Christmas Gift Picture Frames

    I was shopping my local Habitat for Humanity Home Center and ran across a massive pile of "oak trim" scraps that were being sold at $0.50/ft. I went over to the pile to find it was made up of beautiful pieces of cherry, maple, red oak, pine, mahogony, poplar, etc. trim pieces. At that price, I...
  6. Scraps From EZ Mitre Box

    The 4 corner waste pieces of sycamore from the EZ Mitre box drove me crazy. I put them in the burn pile, took them out, put them back….. Until I decided to design a box around them and quit worrying about wasting materiel. Box is Jatoba with sycamore splines and 4×4 sycamore panels. Shipwright...
  7. Cookbook Stand

    This cookbook stand was a Christmas Gift to my sister-in-law. First, I must give credit to ScottMorrison and Canadian Woodworks on LJ for inspiring my design. I wish I would have had more time to devote to my project to obtain perfection those builders' music stands are at, but I was battling...
  8. Marketplace Classifieds
    I am not a turner, so I won't be taking advantage of this opportunity, but I heard this through the grapevine and thought I'd share for all of you who might be interested. Red Ivory Trading in South Africa (website redivorytrading.co.za) is going through tough times, and to try keep afloat...
  9. Power Tools, Hardware and Accessories
    Hello all I think I may have done it! I may have found a gem! I found an old (1960-80) unisaw for sale and am going to look at it in the next couple days. After lots of research and patience the road may be nearing the end. I have one question though. I know these saws are heavy, so is it...
  10. Power Tools, Hardware and Accessories
    As I've mentioned in my workshop thread, I'm setting up a workspace and I'm on a very tight tool budget. I have an old cast iron 8" tilt arbor contractor table saw in the garage that I'd been thinking about restoring for use. The more I read into the subject of table saws though, it becomes...
  11. Power Tools, Hardware and Accessories
    What do you do on a Sunday afternoon when your chores are all done, you've read all your woodworking blogs and your woodworking fix is still not satisfied? Why you head on over to eBay of course to see if you can find any gems amongst the dross. Filter out the 'Buy It Now' items, the 'New' items...
  12. Power Tools, Hardware and Accessories
    alright fellas, i have been doing woodworker for a couple years now but fine woodworking, mainly cabinets and furniture has sparked my interest something fierce here lately. the bug has bite and i'm hooked. from what i have read jointers are used to create a flat surface, basically the first...
  13. Hand Tools
    I just got back from the rummage sales and I found this little file for 50 cents. I have never seen one like this it has a curve at the tip, it is "safe" on one edge and not the other. Total length is about 6 inches. I am guessing it has a specific purpose but haven't a clue what that would...
  14. Blogs
    How not to do a wooden hinge I recently posted a project of a box with a wooden hinge where I said "I wouldn't do it the same way again". The best way to explain why is to explain how I did it. Yes, I know there are a lot of other ways of doing this, but I did it this way regardless - call it...
  15. Blogs
    Clam Shell Hinges - yet another different wooden hinging method This blog details how I made the hinges for my latest project, '56' (also now used in '42'). In this blog I will be making one hinge, 56mm x 76mm x 6mm. I am using dissimilar woods for contrast. These are, in this case, sycamore...
  16. Blogs
    Cylinder ends Probably the best technique in making a cylinder is making first the top and bottom. Then make the wall by following the contour of the ends. I made the two cylindrical ends by using a circular jig with mounted router using 1/8" spiral bit. Then I make a shoulder edges on same...
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    The Answer To life the Universe and everything. As all you readers of Douglas Adams' Hitch-Hikers's Guide to the Galaxy will know. For me it is, as well as that, a quest for yet smaller wooden hinges. Don't Panic (as the Guide says on it's cover, in big, friendly, letters) I am prepared to...
  18. Blogs
    Weaved Design Variations Triple slat designs. I started using the scrap pieces excess from Narra flooring parquet. This was the result of squaring both sides of the cut using thicknesser jig I made. It was easily done even by 4 or 5 depending on the texture and grain orientation of the narra...
  19. Woodworking Skill Share
    I'm experimenting with wooden hinges. I want to use a piano style hinge to connect the two plates of a tortilla press by gluing it into a hinge mortise. I'm concerned about the space required between the pins to keep the mechanism from being too tight without letting it become sloppy. Also...
  20. Wood & Lumber
    Bought a stack of wood for $100 at an auction recently. Two trips to get it all home. Thought it was oak and cherry. Planed a few boards to find I have over 200 bd ft of walnut and over 135 bd ft of hickory, not counting the 10 large beams that were on the bottom of the stack. Most boards...
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