Category: Woodworking
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Despite my lack of posts, I have been producing. One item is a second Walnut Mantel for my Aunt’s basement fireplaces. The lumber was only milled so I over cut the pieces and sent them through the planer. I cut the 45s and used 4 90 deg clamps for the corners. Some people say that…
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I have been working on new cutting boards for my First Friday show in NOTO. I hope you like them. These are two interesting boards. The bigger one is purple heart and maple. The smaller is a chaos board with some very tasty woods: purple heart, walnut, padauk, hedge, Baltic birch, cherry, and probably some…
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My pal in Topeka runs a ice cream shop and offered to take on some of my cutting boards. That got me excited, so I spent the holiday weeks pumping out cutting boards. Here are a some of them. These are the newest batch and feature an “M” and a “V” brand for a meat…
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I made it home over a short weekend and was able to finish the tables. First I hacked off the middle, back leg of the two long tables. The stump rest right on the back side of the radiator, so there is some support still. I cleaned up the wood and my father used a…
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I have been waiting to post the final part of this project because there wasn’t much to post about and I have been nearly finished for a week or so. I glued and clamped the bottom shelf and put everything except for the top frame together to see how it will look. I found that…
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I tapered the middle of the handle down using the band saw so that the cutting boards will be more ergonomic. Using a router and a 1/4 round over bit, I shaped up the sides. I put one in the vice and started sanding by hand. I think I’ll have these looking pretty good in…
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Sometimes I get project fatigue and this is one of those project. However, I’m pretty happy with the progress. I masked the maple, which took an hour because I didn’t want any finish soaking into the maple. Kristy and I woke up early in the morning and put on a coat of pre-stain and a…
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I’ve cut these blanks out of a birds eye maple board I’ve had laying around. I cut the corners on the band saw. More to come, but I will probably router a quarter round on all sides and shape the handle more. This is new territory for me, so I’m excited to see how they…
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The glass came in for the top frame. I ordered it online, so it came packaged with a lot of Styrofoam. I left it like that for a couple of days while I worked on the rest of the table. I grabbed some Baltic birch from Woodcraft and clamped up the drawer. I fit it…
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My Father’s best friend passed on a while back. He was an enigmatic man who was brimming with creativity and craftsmanship: a musician, a carpenter, an artist, a father, a counselor. Through his art and my small time with him as an adult, I leaned a lot from him more than he could know. Needless…