In this closing point of the year, knowing my greenhouse is still as yet unfinished, I spent some of my Christmas holiday moving it forward. I have ordered the glazing panels and they will be here next week. The roof glazing spars are bird’s-mouthed angle cut and ready to install. I just lack the four-meter…
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Between Christmas and New year is often a good time for reflection and the best way for reflection is a really good cleanup! I was so busy in the last month trying to meet all of the deadlines and making sure I wasn’t the bottleneck to others completing their work and keeping to schedule. Putting…
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As the close of another year arrives and we enjoy a holiday break to celebrate and rest in, I want to thank you all for the incredible support you’ve given to the work we do throughout the last year. We may have felt that the year was somehow incomplete, I think that that would be…
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A picture frame is probably one of the first projects the average woodworker makes. As we acquire new skills, materials, and tools, a simple picture frame can turn into an exquisite work of art. If you’re not careful, the frame can compete for attention with the art itself, which I think is a mistake. In my opinion, the frame should be the second thing the eye sees and should draw your attention to the art within the frame. So when Nicole asked me to make a frame for a special piece of artwork, I knew I’d need to pump the brakes a bit in hopes of designing a frame that was not only elegant and well-made, but also simple enough that it detract from the print.
This particular variation is one that I also built as part of a FREE Guild series on Picture Frames. Head to the Guild and sign up for immediate access.
Here are the links to the things I referenced in the video:
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Mesquite is a lowly wood. It covers 56 million acres in Texas alone, more than any of the other few states that host this very unique tree. I have much more to tell you about this tree’s lovely uniqueness but perhaps in later White House posts. For the main part, people, ranchers, mostly, seem destined…
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There are many things to be thankful for in life and for all of us it is mostly things surrounding our family, our special friends and our loved ones that make us truly grateful. When one person achieves something special resulting from hard work and great effort we all rejoice together because achievement that costs…
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After the phone, call I took a pencil and sketched out a framework of tasks, choices, ideas…in reverse order. Most of what I do thought-wise is done in reverse order as is my thinking where I think in pictures and colour. Most design starts with a space, empty or not, but ultimately emptied; a space…
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My new shop assistant Jon likes to dabble in design. He posted a cool little table idea to his Instagram feed and I thought it would make a fun experiment for TWW. We put our heads together and came up with a prototype. As you probably know by now, even prototypes can be beautiful and functional so Jon took the table home and put it to work. After that first proof of concept, I really wanted to take a second crack at the design with a few changes that put a slight Spag-spin on it and you’ll see that one at the end of the video.
If you try to build one of these, there are a couple of things we learned that I’d like to share with you.
It turned out to be a lot easier to bend the strips than I anticipated and you saw that we removed the strip bundle from the holding jig. So there’s really no need for that holding jig. The strip bundle can simply be glued together on its own and the strips can be hammered into the slots during the glueup. The additional benefit here is that the glue joints aren’t stressed until well after the glue cures.
We added dowels to reinforce the bundle of strips. Be sure to do this BEFORE you attach the bundles to the top.
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