Elliptical Tables and More They might look the same but they’re not, not quite anyway. When I made the small tables for the living room of Sellers’ Home I experimented a little and made several shapes going from square to rectangular, octagonal and elliptical. At the experiment stage, developmental really, I left out the option …
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This was one of my favorite projects of the year. It’s a small cabinet intended to go beneath a wall-mounted television in my mom’s house. Made from Sapele, Ambrosia Maple, and Ebony, it’s full of woodworking challenges and design elements. If you want the full course and plans, head to the Guild.
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. . . it takes 57 years to perfect a dovetail. Of course, it doesn’t take anywhere near 1% of that. I sometimes post a video or a picture showing a perfect joint I just made, a dovetail, a mortise and tenon, or a saw sliding and gliding effortlessly through the wood in perfect alignment. …
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It happened in a flash The grain crunched, concertinaed into a cram-jammed throat so tight it jarred me. Would it happen with a heavyweight? Some other make? A bevel up? York-pitch-frogged version? Most likely one and maybe not the other but then no one predicts its happening in time to change plane type to avoid …
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I contracted COVID sometime around 27 July 2022. From where I have no way of knowing. Over the previous week, I had travelled to Vienna and Saltzburg, eaten in restaurants and did the usual touristy things there as well as my usual inquiries into things wood culture and so on. For four days after my …
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It does seem that those new to woodworking are a little intimidated by the thought of making the workbench they need yet they definitely need it to get started. My workbench is a dead simple workbench to make. I designed it in the face of the massive behemoths woodworkers in lofty realms seem ever-wont to …
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I bought my first square, a combination square, in 1965, 90 or so years after Laroy S Starrett invented the tool for engineering machinists. My combination square was made by Rabone Chesterman here in England. I still have it, use it daily, and it is still fully working and accurate despite its daily use of …
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