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Hi Steve ... a valid question in my opinion. one can often create perfect things with endless time. with endless time, one can also run the risk of creating what we refer to in our shop as...

My son Will and I are building a banjo. He’s an excellent player and knows what makes a good banjo. I, on the other hand, know how to make things quickly and tend to forge ahead to ‘get things done’...

Thanks Angie and Alex ... Both replies were very helpful .... I think we'll start with the first idea and glue one to a ply circle on my face plate. Parting it off was the part we were missing.... ...

Hi ... My son and I want to turn some 11" banjo pots ... I've got a Powermatic 45 lathe but no four jaw chuck ... We're looking at the One Way Talon CHuck with the Jumbo Jaws from Canada. We're...

Thank you Jeremy ... I'm Nnt sure why all the pictures don't load for some folks ... I thought I uploaded them all the same ... all the pics are on my blog .. dan

We have recently completed a desk for a client in the style of Sir Edwin Lutyens, a prolific British designer/architect. I have posted pictures here and more detailed process photos, inspiration...

I see that I have a number of questions and comments regarding my pool table post from last weekend. I will try to update that post and respond to your questions over the weekend sometime.

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I have built a few pool tables over the years and we’re about to start another one … I have posted some stuff on my dorset custom furniture blog about the process, and I will update the info as we go...

Friday we completed a project we have been working on off and on since July. It's a beautiful house ... Projects and process photos are detailed on my blog at...

Hi Curt ... If you follow the link below to my blog entry you can see my son turning the brass with a very standard, freshly sharpened, round nose HSS woodturning scraper. You can also see his set...

http://picasaweb.google.com/goodwood44/DorsetCustomFurnitureAWoodworkersPhotoJournal?authkey=Tm4kYjgJTvI#5265758533980609938

I had occasion to refresh my brass turning skills on my wood lathe...

Last Saturday was, like today, another exceptional fall foliage day in Vermont. I wandered out throught the woods by my shop and house to recharge my batteries and found that the effort was...

UntilI was sidetracked by Drew Lavis's intarsia table top, I had intended to post a new project moving through the shop. We have started to work on a concertina hinge, folding top, game table. It’s...

Hi Drew .... I think your intarsia work table top is really, really wonderful. I to like how you flowed your lines through the various wood species. I've been fooling around with similar work for...

I was going to post a comment under Drew's intarsia table with the sun motif which I thought was just really, really cool. Then, I was inspired by his piece to post some pictures of some similar work...

Hi, I am a professional woodworker looking for information on an expanding table mechanism I saw once on an antique game table. It was 18 x 36 closed but you could pull on the pair of back legs and...

Hi Cary,
Nice job on the guitar post with all the pics. Very inspiring ... I'm impressed that you just headed into it with plans from a book. My younger son wanted to build a resonator guitar and...

Hi ... I've got a delta unisaw model 34-461, 1.5 hp, currently wired for 220, your basic 20 year old unisaw .... I've got a friend who wants to buy it. What do you think I should charge/ ... It's in...

Hi ... I have been making stuff professionally for almost 30 years and for the first 20 of them had work photographed by a professional photographer. He was fantastic and taught me many things but...

I am a new member here at Sawmill Creek. As a professional woodworker, I keep and online shop diary and have recently posted (April, May and July posts) shop drawings and project progress photos for...

Hi ... I've been running a Multicam 1000 for almost 3 years. There are a lot of people out there running many different machines and I think the success you will have with it will depend as much on...

Hello everyone ... I'm new to this site but have been a professional furniture maker since 1980. I currently have five employees, a CNC router, for which we accept custom work, a custom metal shop,...

I have been buying all my cherry, figured and plain, thick and thin, from Irion Lumber in Wellsboro, PA http://www.irionlumber.com/ for about 8 years. They have a 200 board foot minimum but they...