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Thursday, February 12, 2015
Scrap wood projects on youtube
Scrap wood projects on youtube
Woodworking - small projects 1 - youtube, Woodworking small projects part 1: various smaller works made mostly from scrap pieces of wood. i make these in between my usual interest, chainsaw carving.
Scrap wood projects - youtube, Sign in now to see your channels and recommendations! sign in . watch queue tv queue. Scrap wood projects - youtube, Scrap wood projects- i have truly enjoyed the scrape wood challenge videos that were published today. they are some excellent projects and truly show the. Woodworking project | scrap wood coasters/ drink mats, This easy woodworking project would be a great use for scrap wood one has in the woodshop. these fun coasters or drink mats would make a great and cheap.
Woodworking - small projects 1 - youtube, Woodworking small projects part 1: various smaller works made mostly from scrap pieces of wood. i make these in between my usual interest, chainsaw carving.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Moving On
"Moving On" Completed 11/13.
Built with knotty pines and black cherry for the case, doors, and back. Rosewood and Bloodwood exotics trim out the details. The interior drawer fronts are spalted maple.
The wall cabinet is 31 1/2" tall, 17 1/2" wide and 8 1/2" deep.
The exterior is finished with two coats of Watco Natural Danish Oil followed by a hand buffed paste wax top coat.
The interior is finished with burnished in beeswax using the polissoir method rediscovered by Don Williams. With the exception of the drawer fronts which received the same Danish Oil and Wax treatment as the exterior.
Though the piece was inspired by the work of James Krenov. I was compelled to add some of my own flair. Lately I have been experimenting with the linings of boxes, particularly with paper. I will hand marble my own paper, and infact I did so for the interiors of the drawers, but the doors required larger pieces of paper than I have been able to turn out.
I found the lining for the doors at an area art supply store.
Its difficult to be objective about a piece when youve finished it so recently. I would call this the most ambitious and challenging thing Ive produced, and then there is little wonder why I feel the near insatiable desire to nit pick the whole thing to death. As I look at it I can see every detail I missed, see different design decisions I should have made, and see every wayward straying of both hands and tools.
Still, I believe it has accomplished the overall goals I set out for myself in the beginning.
1) To build a case piece ala Krenov that would push the boundaries of my abilities in design and execution by stepping outside my comfort zone. .
2) To use materials I had been "saving" for a long while.
3) To build without a measured drawing or even a completed plan in place from the start and complete the process from "The Point Of The Tool" with minimal use of a linear measuring device. Instead I tried to let the material help dictate the outcome of the piece.
I titled the piece "Moving On" because that is an apt interpretation of what the work here really means to me. For one, its deciding to be done with this piece that has haunted me, for years in my imagination and for months on my workbench. For another its road marker that breaks from my focus on the techniques of "How" I make something and just dives deeper into the making.
I used to build pieces and break them down on the "How" It was important to me "How" I flattened my stock, or "How" I cut my joinery, The handwork I focused on was my personal badge of honor and the chip on my shoulder. Since starting work in my new shop Ive had the space, power, and convenience to rediscover a lot of my old shop machines that spent most of their time covered in tarps in the old shop. This cabinet saw more time on the table saw than any project Ive built in the last three years. The way I use my table saw is markedly different than how I used to, but I am using it again. Who knows, at this rate I may even shake hands with my router table again.
Its become less about "how" I make something, and more about "what" I make. And in my mind thats opening the doors to many other areas of the craft Ive found fascinating from a distance, but have never been able to muster up the confidence to move into. Veneer work is one of the next things in my sights and not just thanks to the recent "Roubo on Marquetry" book Ive come to adore. Id collected half a dozen books on veneering before I managed to get my hands of Roubos tome, but I was reading them and saying "someday." Now Im ready to revisit them, move on, and say tomorrow.
Im ready for the next step in my evolution.
Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
A leg or two to stand on
I spent most of yesterday cleaning up in the workshop. After I finish the construction on a project and before I jump in and start another I usually spend a day or two cleaning up the shop. Again I own no dust collection system so the floor usually is covered with a 1/4 inch in the areas I work most. And with all the sawing and jointing this work bench took, I was closer to 1/2 inch, not quite deep enough to lose small children and pets, but respectfully getting there.
I enjoy the time cleaning up and reorganizing the shop almost as much as I enjoy doing joinery. I will tweak things a bit, maybe move some tools from one spot to another more convenient area, maybe it is just shifting the drill press 5 degrees more to the left.
This time, because I was setting up shop, the clean up was much more extensive and satisfying. I created a place to hang my clamps right near the workbench, a most elegant solution courtesy of my wonderful wife. I will have to make a point of sharing a picture of it in the future. I also hung
a small cabinet I keep my drill press accessories in, and generally began the process of creating a flow for work to pass through the shop.
At any rate. I had finished the top of the bench. And boy oh boy was it a big baby maker. I am no small man, infact I am usually stronger than I realize, and I had to really pay attention to what I was doing when I was moving this thing around. That makes it well in excess of 100 lbs. probably pushing 150. I had to create an equally stout base to support this beast.
The easy thing to do would have been to create straight legs, and the next time I build myself a bench that is exactly what I will do. But the angled legs of the Nicholson workbench are the look that initially drew me in like a sailor to the sirens. The problem was that I had modified things from the original, and was going to continue to do so. I decided while I was constructing the legs that I would do away with the broad board that made up the face of the bench. There were two
realizations that made this decision. 1) I wanted to use the under-shelf of the bench for tool box storage. I have several tool boxes for several occasions (one to grab for plumbing, one for electrical, one for automotive, one that has forge and blacksmithing tools. . . you get the idea) and these things always have lived under my bench, adding their weight to its mass. I had no intentions of changing that and I felt that the wide board would get in the way, At first I fancied leaving the face board and just leaving the access from behind for the tool boxes but then as I worked I realized reason #2. I have always used my 7" pony clamps to hold some pieces down to the bench. I found my self doing it while I 
was cutting the joinery for the legs, and I realized that if I were to place that face board on, then I would be killing my ability and freedom to do that anywhere on the bench. Going once...going twice...sold!! There would be no wide face board on my bench. The choices I made in constructing the top removed the structural necessity and made the board nothing but a glorified deadman anyway, if I decided I wanted a deadman in the future then I would retrofit one.
I had to make some decisions on my own as far as the angle to cut the legs at and accurately calculate the length to make the work bench my
target height. I took some math and some guess work and some "hmmm that looks about right" In the end the length was one of the things I got right dead on. but it would have been significantly more straight forward with straight legs.
I face glued two more pairs of 2x4s together, but this time I did not run them through the saw, infact I hardly cleaned up the squeeze out. From this I would make the legs of the bench.
I chose 22.5 degrees (half of 45) the same degree of angle that you find in an octagon. and I cut the legs with a combination of my pitifully small miter saw and a hand saw to finish the cut.
After I cut one to my satisfaction I used it as a template to match the length on the other three legs. I then had to decide how I was going to joint the boards at the top and attach them to the bench, a cross cleat that mortised into both legs seemed to make sense to me. This worked well and it didnt. Planning the mortises on the legs was troublesome, I had to pencil up and erase three layouts before I decided that I was OK with what I had. But when the legs were joined to the bench top the did not settle in smoothly. A combination of both choosing not to flatten the underside of the bench and
not getting the cleats 
seated perfectly square into their mortises. something that can be probably forgiven and worked around with straight legs, but an issue that had to be shimmed for a solution with the angled legs.
I marked out the mortises, not traditional closed on four sides mortises, but ones where the tenon settles in to an open top. Im sure there is a name for this style of joint, infact I may
know it.. but it does not come to me right now.
I removed the mojority of the material on the drill press with a forstner bit, and chopped out the rest with a 1" chisel. I have to say that it was really the most fun I have ever had working with the chisel, In the past it has been a lot of hammering and work to accomplish anything with a chisel, I assumed it was my technique and more likely my ability to competently sharpen them, I tried and thought I was doing everything right, but I was never happy with how they worked, but man did that change as I worked on the new bench top. The chisels accomplised what I wanted them to do just the way I always imagined they should. I
never realized how much of my energy was being absorbed and wasted by the springiness of the old plywood workbench. I have to admit, it was very gratifying.
After dry fitting the pieces I noticed that part of the cleat was extending past the leg. Not something readily visible, but I would have known it was there. So I marked off the overhang with a pencil and cleaned down the edge to where I wanted with a draw knife and smoothed with a card scraper.
Next I needed to remember, (and I am glad I did)
to cut the mortise that the alignment bar / cross bar of the leg vice would slide through. I would have also drilled for the screw of the vice, but I did not know for sure where I was going to locate it, so I chose to leave it and suffer later, turns out it wasnt too bad at all.
I cut some scrap boards the same length as the inside between the legs and used them too keep the aparatus square while I glued it up. O also then drove some screws down through the tenons and into the legs, Im not sure if this choice accomplished anything, I love the thought of all straight up glue and wood joinery, Im just never
sure if I trust myself enough to not add a little finish nail in that dovetail, or pin the mortise and tennon with a dowel at least. What I probably need to do is trust myself a bit more than I do. well if hat isnt one hell of a metaphor for life, bla bla bla huh? On that note I guess I should sign off for the night, coming up next... the bottom shelf.
Good night all
Oldwolf
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I enjoy the time cleaning up and reorganizing the shop almost as much as I enjoy doing joinery. I will tweak things a bit, maybe move some tools from one spot to another more convenient area, maybe it is just shifting the drill press 5 degrees more to the left.
This time, because I was setting up shop, the clean up was much more extensive and satisfying. I created a place to hang my clamps right near the workbench, a most elegant solution courtesy of my wonderful wife. I will have to make a point of sharing a picture of it in the future. I also hung
a small cabinet I keep my drill press accessories in, and generally began the process of creating a flow for work to pass through the shop.At any rate. I had finished the top of the bench. And boy oh boy was it a big baby maker. I am no small man, infact I am usually stronger than I realize, and I had to really pay attention to what I was doing when I was moving this thing around. That makes it well in excess of 100 lbs. probably pushing 150. I had to create an equally stout base to support this beast.
The easy thing to do would have been to create straight legs, and the next time I build myself a bench that is exactly what I will do. But the angled legs of the Nicholson workbench are the look that initially drew me in like a sailor to the sirens. The problem was that I had modified things from the original, and was going to continue to do so. I decided while I was constructing the legs that I would do away with the broad board that made up the face of the bench. There were two
realizations that made this decision. 1) I wanted to use the under-shelf of the bench for tool box storage. I have several tool boxes for several occasions (one to grab for plumbing, one for electrical, one for automotive, one that has forge and blacksmithing tools. . . you get the idea) and these things always have lived under my bench, adding their weight to its mass. I had no intentions of changing that and I felt that the wide board would get in the way, At first I fancied leaving the face board and just leaving the access from behind for the tool boxes but then as I worked I realized reason #2. I have always used my 7" pony clamps to hold some pieces down to the bench. I found my self doing it while I was cutting the joinery for the legs, and I realized that if I were to place that face board on, then I would be killing my ability and freedom to do that anywhere on the bench. Going once...going twice...sold!! There would be no wide face board on my bench. The choices I made in constructing the top removed the structural necessity and made the board nothing but a glorified deadman anyway, if I decided I wanted a deadman in the future then I would retrofit one.I had to make some decisions on my own as far as the angle to cut the legs at and accurately calculate the length to make the work bench my
target height. I took some math and some guess work and some "hmmm that looks about right" In the end the length was one of the things I got right dead on. but it would have been significantly more straight forward with straight legs.I face glued two more pairs of 2x4s together, but this time I did not run them through the saw, infact I hardly cleaned up the squeeze out. From this I would make the legs of the bench.
I chose 22.5 degrees (half of 45) the same degree of angle that you find in an octagon. and I cut the legs with a combination of my pitifully small miter saw and a hand saw to finish the cut.
After I cut one to my satisfaction I used it as a template to match the length on the other three legs. I then had to decide how I was going to joint the boards at the top and attach them to the bench, a cross cleat that mortised into both legs seemed to make sense to me. This worked well and it didnt. Planning the mortises on the legs was troublesome, I had to pencil up and erase three layouts before I decided that I was OK with what I had. But when the legs were joined to the bench top the did not settle in smoothly. A combination of both choosing not to flatten the underside of the bench and
not getting the cleats seated perfectly square into their mortises. something that can be probably forgiven and worked around with straight legs, but an issue that had to be shimmed for a solution with the angled legs.I marked out the mortises, not traditional closed on four sides mortises, but ones where the tenon settles in to an open top. Im sure there is a name for this style of joint, infact I may
know it.. but it does not come to me right now.I removed the mojority of the material on the drill press with a forstner bit, and chopped out the rest with a 1" chisel. I have to say that it was really the most fun I have ever had working with the chisel, In the past it has been a lot of hammering and work to accomplish anything with a chisel, I assumed it was my technique and more likely my ability to competently sharpen them, I tried and thought I was doing everything right, but I was never happy with how they worked, but man did that change as I worked on the new bench top. The chisels accomplised what I wanted them to do just the way I always imagined they should. I
never realized how much of my energy was being absorbed and wasted by the springiness of the old plywood workbench. I have to admit, it was very gratifying.After dry fitting the pieces I noticed that part of the cleat was extending past the leg. Not something readily visible, but I would have known it was there. So I marked off the overhang with a pencil and cleaned down the edge to where I wanted with a draw knife and smoothed with a card scraper.
Next I needed to remember, (and I am glad I did)
to cut the mortise that the alignment bar / cross bar of the leg vice would slide through. I would have also drilled for the screw of the vice, but I did not know for sure where I was going to locate it, so I chose to leave it and suffer later, turns out it wasnt too bad at all.I cut some scrap boards the same length as the inside between the legs and used them too keep the aparatus square while I glued it up. O also then drove some screws down through the tenons and into the legs, Im not sure if this choice accomplished anything, I love the thought of all straight up glue and wood joinery, Im just never
sure if I trust myself enough to not add a little finish nail in that dovetail, or pin the mortise and tennon with a dowel at least. What I probably need to do is trust myself a bit more than I do. well if hat isnt one hell of a metaphor for life, bla bla bla huh? On that note I guess I should sign off for the night, coming up next... the bottom shelf.Good night all
Oldwolf
Monday, February 10, 2014
Progress on the Claro Walnut Slab Table
9/19 ... Update on the table progress ... The chairs left Friday morning and will return mid week...
And we assembled the table as we went out the door Friday afternoon ...
9/16
Were making progress on the big Claro walnut slab table I described in the two most recent posts below. We should have it upright on the base tomorrow and ready for the finish next week. It looks like it will be a beautiful piece ... The slab has some pretty interesting and incredible color and grain variations and we like the new base design that the customers encouraged us to create ... It is going to be a heavy one though ... Hope they have a good floor system ... Click the pictures to enlarge them ...
The top is butterflied and scraped relatively smooth. Well assemble the base and complete work on the bottom of the table and hopefully have it upright for the weekend ...
The chairs will be leaving in the morning to get their Danish cord seats at Sandy Sherman Chair Caning in Brookline, Vermont ... Its our first effort with the Danish cord and Im looking forward to seeing how it works how ...
We started the day with a couple hours of drilling and tapping ...
and a test assembly before we finish sanding and varnishing on the bottom tomorrow... all for now ...
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And we assembled the table as we went out the door Friday afternoon ...9/16Were making progress on the big Claro walnut slab table I described in the two most recent posts below. We should have it upright on the base tomorrow and ready for the finish next week. It looks like it will be a beautiful piece ... The slab has some pretty interesting and incredible color and grain variations and we like the new base design that the customers encouraged us to create ... It is going to be a heavy one though ... Hope they have a good floor system ... Click the pictures to enlarge them ...The top is butterflied and scraped relatively smooth. Well assemble the base and complete work on the bottom of the table and hopefully have it upright for the weekend ...The chairs will be leaving in the morning to get their Danish cord seats at Sandy Sherman Chair Caning in Brookline, Vermont ... Its our first effort with the Danish cord and Im looking forward to seeing how it works how ...We started the day with a couple hours of drilling and tapping ...and a test assembly before we finish sanding and varnishing on the bottom tomorrow... all for now ...Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Barbeque Chicken Pizza on the Grill
Today I thought I would share a new favorite time saving recipe. After all, less time cooking = more time for projects ... ok not just for projects, but sometimes :) And I do really like cooking, but shortcuts can be great too!
We started using our grill more and I love it! Friday we decided to try making pizza on it and it turned out AMAZING, I just had to share!
We started with Trader Joes fresh pizza dough. You just take it out of the bag and let it rest for about 20 minutes and then it is ready to go! I love this stuff, you get the taste of fresh bread without any work! Of course making it from scratch is the best, but this is a great time saver!
Friday we made barbeque chicken pizza, yum! Heres how we did it.
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We cooked a few chicken tenderloins on the grill first and put them aside (chopped and mixed in a little barbeque sauce). On the stove we sauteed some onion and finished them off by reducing a little balsamic vinegar.
We spread the dough out, sprayed it with cooking spray, put it on the grill and let it cook for about a minute or two (sprayed the other side with cooking spray) and flipped when it had light grill marks.
We put a little barbeque sauce on the crust a few pieces of cheese (grate if you would like it more even), we added the chicken, and cooked onion, closed the grill and let it cook for a few minutes, checking the bottom to make sure that it didnt get too dark. It cooked SO fast!
Once it was done we put a little chopped cilantro! This pizza has so much flavor that it doesnt need a lot of cheese which is a nice calorie saving alternative!
Last night we made pretzels with TJ fresh dough, (boiled them in baking soda water for about a minute first) and finished cooking them on the grill. I make these in the oven often and didnt think that they tasted that different, but nice if if you already have the grill out!
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and in project news, we added the supports last night for the shelving and it is a lot studier and straight! Tutorial tomorrow :)
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We started using our grill more and I love it! Friday we decided to try making pizza on it and it turned out AMAZING, I just had to share!
We started with Trader Joes fresh pizza dough. You just take it out of the bag and let it rest for about 20 minutes and then it is ready to go! I love this stuff, you get the taste of fresh bread without any work! Of course making it from scratch is the best, but this is a great time saver!
Friday we made barbeque chicken pizza, yum! Heres how we did it.
We cooked a few chicken tenderloins on the grill first and put them aside (chopped and mixed in a little barbeque sauce). On the stove we sauteed some onion and finished them off by reducing a little balsamic vinegar.
We spread the dough out, sprayed it with cooking spray, put it on the grill and let it cook for about a minute or two (sprayed the other side with cooking spray) and flipped when it had light grill marks.
We put a little barbeque sauce on the crust a few pieces of cheese (grate if you would like it more even), we added the chicken, and cooked onion, closed the grill and let it cook for a few minutes, checking the bottom to make sure that it didnt get too dark. It cooked SO fast!
Once it was done we put a little chopped cilantro! This pizza has so much flavor that it doesnt need a lot of cheese which is a nice calorie saving alternative!
Last night we made pretzels with TJ fresh dough, (boiled them in baking soda water for about a minute first) and finished cooking them on the grill. I make these in the oven often and didnt think that they tasted that different, but nice if if you already have the grill out!
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and in project news, we added the supports last night for the shelving and it is a lot studier and straight! Tutorial tomorrow :)
Monday, January 27, 2014
Thoughts on Mortality
We lost two friends this week. Both were elderly and lived long and happy lives, but still, it gives one pause .... The first, Peggy, was the mother of friends we have known since the early 70s, (both of them, the friends and the mom), and the second, a client for both Kit and I and a woman totally involved in our local community who we encountered, going about town, many days a week. Both will be missed. I was asked by Peggys family to make the box for her ashes, an act I consider a high honor. I have made a few funerary items as I believe they are properly called, and each has been a thought provoking and meditative process, a time to reflect on who that person was, how they affected ours lives if I knew them well, and how I might live my life to reflect the values and knowledge gained from knowing them ... Just after I put the final coat of finish on Peggys box, I looked out and saw a mink in the pond with a chipmunk in its mouth and reflected on the natural course of life ... Were here, we live and make an impact on others we come in contact with, were gone, leaving behind little traces of ourselves with whoever we meet ...
Peggys box ... simple and elegant, just like her ....
On our way to the service .... It was a beautiful day ...
Below are some other boxes I have made for friends and family members over the last couple of years. We seem to be getting to that age ....
This was my first casket, for my father, in 2006. I was sort of carried away by the thought of it and maybe went a bit overboard on the details ... Fortunately, I had a lot of help on this project ...Click the pictures to enlarge them ...
I was a bit more subdued when we all made my mothers casket last summer ...
This box was for Kits mothers ashes ...
Painted pine and a fir top
Above, for another friends mother ...
Writing this post made me think of a photo I took a few years back of some advice on how to live your life. Its from 1692 and it about sums things up for me. I took the photo at a clients house, shortly before his wife died, and I think of it often ... Worth a read .... click it
The closings great ... Be careful,Strive to be happy ...
I have written something about designing and making the dovetailed box above in the post below this one ...
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