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My Journey As A Scroll Saw Pattern Designer #501: New Projects In Progress
And so we begin another week . . How can the days seem to go by so quickly? I know that I whine about it all the time, but it seems that the days are so full that before I know it, the sun is setting...
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Outdoor Dining table #1: Is it right to post 1st phase if all metal?
Fellow Lumberjocks; Is it right to post the 1st phase of a project if all metal? I have been on the fence about doing a blog on our outdoor dining table project. The first phase is all metal and was...
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Woodworking projects under way. #23: Christmas Tree Stand. Starting the glue...
Upon taking down our 10+ year old artificial tree last year, I heard a terrible snap of plastic… The base died a terrible wrenching death.. Well, the rest of the tree is in simply too good shape to...
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Kennel Bench
Working on a unique bench design. Customer has requested that a bench be built to accommodate his 4 dachshunds….He has a converted a laundry room into a Mud room. The kennels he has in there now are...
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General musings #3: My new Website - at last!
Hello all. I’ve been promising to do this for ages and now I have finally committed to it. At the moment I have a free site on Moonfruit the URL for which is in my strap line and is...
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Tool Gloat
As many of you know, I’m partial to a Hand Brace or 10. For the last 18 months or so, I’ve bid on countless old wooden braces just because I think they look so damn cool. They’ve always gone too high...
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Frame Saw Build #3: Template me this, Curve me that.
Using my previously made SketchUp model I made a full sizes printed template using the following steps: 1. Setting up a Parallel view: The default view in SketchUp is “Perspective” which allows us to...
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Interesting highly produced 1min video about woodworking
The Carpenter from Dimitris Ladopoulos on Vimeo. I’m not really sure what I think about this – it’s very well produced; that’s for sure. Not crazy about the safety precautions, or lack thereof. What I...
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Mystery commission. #1: The start...
A while back I had a request for a ready made box… this time the commission is for a special item…. I do not intend to reveal the nature of the commission… suffice to say… follow along and all will be...
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Workbench #14: Starting The Base
Hello. I am now working on the base for my workbench. I have changed some of the design details since my first concept, but not by much. The main difference is that the two legs on the Roubo side of...
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Ep 19 Matt's Halloween Router Bowl Part 2
In this Episode:the conclusion of Matt’s router Bowl
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Balanced wine rack
I’ve seen a lot of these Balanced wine racks.. does anyone have a pattern or a place i can get one?
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The Humble Hand Brace - A Beginner's Guide to Restoring, Buying and Using #8:...
Sorry it has taken me so long to post the final part to this blog series. Life just gets in the way sometimes. However, here it is and I hope you enjoy it. In this episode I wanted to look at using a...
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Geometric Shapes #2: Truncated Icosahedron (without the math)
I am again intrigued by another …hedron shape. Is it an Icoso…, a Dodeca…, or a Tetra…, they are all mumbo jumbo to me. I just want to make one, I don’t want to learn the math. Maybe I should just go...
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Mailbox Step Saver Alert
Well, I’ve been planning on doing this small project for some time… Actually, I am improving on another project that needs to upgraded. Thus, making another project… It ALL uses SCRAP materials &...
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Selling Your Wood Work Tutorial #7: Presenting Your Product to Win Sales
I apologize to the faithful readers of my blog series for the delay in getting this bog out. I have had an exceptionally busy week this past week and have limited computer time. Hope you enjoy…. How to...
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My Journey As A Scroll Saw Pattern Designer #502: I Never Want to Know How to...
No one said that just because we are self employed that we have to like every aspect of our jobs. As with any occupation, there is good and bad. I suppose the trick is to be able to do much more of the...
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Tuesday Tool Time #4: With no further waiting.....THE DREMEL 3000
If you carve, cut, sand, or even trim your finger nails (does that include everyone?) then you have got to check out this little rotary tool. This weeks review is on the Dremel 3000.
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LumberJocks Halloween 2011 Challenge : Candy Container #2: Special Edition...
Anybody interested in getting our Special Edition LJ T-Shirts for this Halloween Contest can order them on the following links (click on the pictures): We have 2 entries so far. Just a reminder – the...
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Acquiring books and videos
10 years or more ago, I bought a bunch of Bessey clamps on sale at Rockler Woodworking. In the years that followed, I subscribed to Woodworker’s Journal for a few years, Woodsmith for a few years....
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