Twice, over the years, Lee Valley has sent me a check out of the blue, when something I bought was later offered for a lower price. Once, it was for $90 or so, and a good three months after I...
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Twice, over the years, Lee Valley has sent me a check out of the blue, when something I bought was later offered for a lower price. Once, it was for $90 or so, and a good three months after I...
Do you mean the board that looks like one deep well? That is two woods, a light and a dark. The 'waffle' pattern boards get their 3D look by the use of a light, medium and dark wood. Maple, cherry...
Today I put the first coat of oil on another couple of boards. That's always the fun part. The first is a basket weave out of cherry and purpleheart.
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It was assembled from a bunch of...
I can do a lot in the shop, but I have no experience at all with a lathe. Might need to change that someday....
OK, six weeks of interruptions later, and they are done. Each one took about 35 hours, I estimate, and so I couldn't charge enough for such a small board to make it commercially feasible. Good thing...
That's beautiful. And I agree - curves are a killer to make. Making one look good is OK. Making the second match the first is harder. Making a whole series? Gah.
I'll post some more as it grows. Currently sidetracked, as DW had surgery and I'm being cook, housekeeper, nurse and general mom.
Wow, that's pretty nice work for right before a wedding! Congratulations!
OK, so we're adding layers, and here is the first one, plus maple pieces for the next layer.
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I glued two of these onto the cores.
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After cleaning up the edges, two more get applied:...
I got the idea of trying to see what it would look like if I made a double-rotating squares board. By this I mean a variation of the rotating squares board above. That one has a thin square that...
Love that - "optical delusions".
These are working cutting boards. That is, they are all end grain and finished with food-safe finishes. Whether the recipient uses them as such is out of my...
Yes, after having seen examples online. It was surprisingly tricky to get it to work correctly. You need to get the pivot correct on a left-right axis, such that the entire folded leaf fits inside...
Yeah, I was worried too! The original table was screwed to the wall. The walls in my RV (an Entegra) are built somewhat like a house wall - studs with insulation between, and the fiberglass skin...
The rotating squares and the offset squares designs are built from the inside out, a layer at a time. The rotating squares alternates a thin layer and a thick on, then the thick one is cut at an...
I've been doing these for a month or two, for fun. Turns out to be a good combination of labor, thinking and aesthetics. Woods used here are cherry, walnut, maple, and purpleheart.
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The dinette table in our RV was a really ugly muddy composite surface, and DW asked that I make a cherry table to go with the rest of the woodwork. The original table slid out from the wall a total...
Rob has a video showing what he does with a new blade. There, he does work up through more grits/ IIRC between the 1000 and the 16000 he hit 4, 8 and 10, or something like that. At any rate, he says...
Ah, thanks. I have a non-sliding miter saw - forgot about that, as I rarely use it.
I lost access to the local shop full of power tools thanks to the pox. Trying now to work with what I have. I also have plans to move into our RV full-time in the future, which has drastically...
Yes. It's a 55+ community in southern Ca. The amenities include a large wood shop, lapidary shop, and pottery shop, among other things. The wood shop has two large rooms. One has a table saw, a...
I'm a beginner with planes. I have a number of them, accumulated over time, but very little experience on large items until this project. I'm using a LV 5 1/4 bench plane for the workbench top, as it...
I just got word that they are opening the woodshop. However, only half is open, only one person at a time is allowed, you can only get a 2 hour block, you have to disinfect every machine or tool you...
YAMB - Yet Another Moravian Bench. Mine is all birch ply laminate. The local wood shop here closed due to COVID-19 and I am stuck at home with my limited selection of hand tools only. So, I cheated...