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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: August 2009
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Sunday, August 30, 2009. Learning To Turn Better Bowls. Apparently, making bowls was more than a brief experiment for me. I've been squeezing in lots of time, this summer, practicing with new wood and refining my techniques. Here is a Red Gum salad bowl I made for Melissa. I got lucky and found an abnormally large Rose of Sharon log being thrown away. Another curb-side find was a Sweet Gum log yielding this. My Mom and Dad got this pretty little natural edge Dogwood Tree bowl. Much of it was rotten but I...
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: Maple Dining Room Table - Router Work
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Thursday, July 15, 2010. Maple Dining Room Table - Router Work. I finally bought a flush cut bit for my router. This is an amazing little bit, I don't know how I ever got anything built without it. I used it for the final cross cuts on the table top, running it along my piece of particle board for the straight edge. Other than some tear-out on the right corner, it worked great. Posted by Eric Jacobson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:. Maple Dining Room Table - Glue-up Redux.
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: June 2009
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Sunday, June 07, 2009. At art shows, I always stop at the bowl turners' booths to marvel at their mysterious and beautiful work. I've always wondered how they do it and recently I've taken a plunge into the fabulous world of face plate mounting or end grain turning. In fact, turning has brought me much closer to wood and I appreciate its beauty, smell, variety, movement, and texture so much more. Here's another.Maple. Its got some interesting holes in it, probably bored by some insect. In addition, I'm s...
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: Maple Dining Room Table - Glue-up Redux
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Saturday, July 24, 2010. Maple Dining Room Table - Glue-up Redux. While I was dealing with the mis-measured tenons for the short aprons, I neglected the long aprons. The first mistake was that I didn't clamp them. I though I could just pound the joints together and they would hold. Dumb. The glue dried with gaps, between the apron cheeks and legs, on 3 of the joints. I used a flush saw to cut the tenons to once again separate the long aprons from the legs. Posted by Eric Jacobson. My Software Testing Blog.
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: May 2010
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Monday, May 31, 2010. We Refinished Our Floors.Twice! Our southeast-facing front bay window takes in a lot of direct sunlight. It also gets a lot of abuse from dogs looking out that window to monitor the front yard. About a year ago we noticed the finish was beginning to wear itself off the floor in areas. We also had another room, the study, that had worn patches of finish from the time we bought the house. We hoped Minwax Reviver. We did a bunch of research. My favorite video was this one. I had to go ...
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: Maple Dining Room Table - Attaching the Breadboard Ends
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Saturday, July 24, 2010. Maple Dining Room Table - Attaching the Breadboard Ends. I used pocket holes on the bottom centers of each end to hold the breadboard ends to the planks. This will allow the planks to expand and contract. Afterwards, I had a few more hours of sanding, on both sides of the top, to get the breadboard ends to the same thickness as the planks. Someday, I'll buy a planer because that was boring work! Posted by Eric Jacobson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:.
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: Maple Dining Room Table - The Wood
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Sunday, June 06, 2010. Maple Dining Room Table - The Wood. The table will go into a dark room. The room's walls are made of old heart pine tongue and groove panels, so we didn't want a dark table. I really wanted birch, because I had just fallen in love with a birch salad bowl I turned recently. However, my lumber yard's birch selection didn't include anything thick enough for the table legs. Melissa talked me out of most of the wild pieces we saw. I managed to end up with this one though. Maple Dining R...
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: Maple Dining Room Table - Top, Chamfers, Crosscuts
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Saturday, June 12, 2010. Maple Dining Room Table - Top, Chamfers, Crosscuts. After noticing one of my wider top panels had cupped, I made another trip to the lumber yard. When I returned, I noticed my newly purchased board came from the same tree as a previous board I had. Cool! Finally, I screwed my trusty Nobex to the workbench and crosscut the legs and aprons. The Nobex is way more accurate than the table saw. It did suck, making all the cuts in 95 degree Georgia humidy, however.
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: February 2009
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Sunday, February 08, 2009. First Coat of Finish. Dust-free environment. The instructions always say dust-free environment. Who the hell has these? Not me, obviously. So instead, I swept out my garage the day before, let the dust settle, then brought my shop vac into the garage and gave the coffee table a good once over. Finally, I wiped it down with one of those special dust collector cloths. Posted by Eric Jacobson. Sanding Before the Finish. Posted by Eric Jacobson. Posted by Eric Jacobson. To see the ...
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Butt Joints and Pocket Holes: March 2009
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Sunday, March 29, 2009. Attaching the Coffee Table Doors. I'm a little behind in my posts. I attempted to attach the six coffee table doors two weeks ago and discovered I hadn't allowed enough room for the swing. The doors would open/close but they would catch on the rail above them. This was bad. If my construction was done correctly, this table should withstand the seasonal humidity changes and I'll be able to watch the table top expand and pull away from the breadboard edges. Posted by Eric Jacobson.
