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New Adventures in Woodworking: March 2011
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Saturday, March 12, 2011. My face vise stunk. I made it out of scrap wood left over from the benchtop. The wood itself is soft, I drilled the holes sloppily, and it's a little thin. All of these factors led to a really flexy vise with a lot of slop. Now that's a vise! Here's a closeup of the beautiful grain of the poplar:. I like it. It works better too. I'm probably going to do a little surgery on the ...
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New Adventures in Woodworking: December 2010
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Monday, December 13, 2010. Number 12 gets a touch-up. What would you do the night before the last exam of your degree program? What a coincidence, me too. It was not too long ago that I would have had no idea what in the world this was, so I was quite proud of myself for knowing a scraper plane when I saw one. This is a Stanley #12 Scraper Plane. According to the Stanley Bible. Saturday, December 4, 2010.
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New Adventures in Woodworking: April 2011
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Saturday, April 23, 2011. Sunday, April 10, 2011. Bad Wood Good: Part II. When last I left, I had assembled a door frame and was letting the panel glue-up dry:. Now for the fun part: fielding the panels. Growing up I remember wondering how the bevel was but on panels before electric routers were around. Here's how:. Here's my trusty skew rabbet plane. Here's the plane setup:. I got it off eBay in immacu...
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New Adventures in Woodworking: Coffee Table, Part 1
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Tuesday, August 16, 2011. Coffee Table, Part 1. I've really lost my flair for clever blog titles haven't I? This past weekend I got to work on the coffee table. Here's the SketchUp concept:. The first step was to cut the blank. This piece of oak was wide enough to provide all four legs, with some left over for the kerf needed to separate them:. Then I laid out one taper:. Then I went to work on the apro...
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New Adventures in Woodworking: Coffee Table, Part 2
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Sunday, August 28, 2011. Coffee Table, Part 2. Last time I finished up the apron and drawer assembly and putting the taper on the four legs of the new coffee table. Now that the apron was finished, I could fit the legs to each corner. This involved sizing the thickness of the sides of the apron and transferring the measurement to the legs, then removing that with the big saw:. And cut it in two. I could...
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New Adventures in Woodworking: February 2011
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Saturday, February 26, 2011. When last I left, we were at this stage:. The frame was assembled on the briefcase, but the panel edges extended all around the frame and needed to be trimmed. Here was a little angle I chipped to prevent blowing out the end grain. Trimmed a little too deep. But that's why smoothing planes were invented. Moving up to a bigger saw (with a new handle by Yours Truly). So that's...
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New Adventures in Woodworking: March 2012
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Saturday, March 17, 2012. The plan is to make some nice bookcases out of it. The one I'm working on now will have a cabinet on the bottom and then some shelves on top of it. So far the casework for the bottom is coming together nicely:. This is only a dry fit.gaps between joints will be closed during the glue up. The interior contains a single shelf:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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New Adventures in Woodworking: January 2011
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Sunday, January 16, 2011. It's been a while since I've posted. A lot of my. Garage activities recently have been very tool-focused. I have made a number of toy acquisitions recently and have been spending a lot of time restoring them and/or familiarizing myself with them. I'll try to point out new tools and talk a little about them as they come into play in my work. Here was the situation:. Here's my un...
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New Adventures in Woodworking: Slow and steady...
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New Adventures in Woodworking. The more tools you have the more problems you can solve." - Ron Herman. Tuesday, April 17, 2012. It's been a month since the last post and things are moving at a tortoise pace. I've just about finished the lower cabinet of the bookcase, the section of the piece that I think will take the most time. This past month I worked on the feet, played with some finish, made some trim molding, and installed the backing. Here's where we are now:. The finish is Watco Danish Oil. I real...
