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Post 16 in a continuing series....----------------Continuing work on the inverted 'T' support beams, which connect to one another with mitered half laps.After the pieces were cut to length (see the...
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Welcome to another installment of Home Improvement. Today we'll be talking about creative uses for concrete siding, and after that we'll have a review of Fat Max tapes. Who will win the 'stand out'...
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Post 18 in a continuing series....----------------------I have obtained an operation manual along with electrical diagram for the Zimmerman FZ-5V pattern milling machine:Compared to Chinese, Japanese,...
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Post 19 in a continuing series.------------------------The second set of beams with pillow block pairs has been fitted up - here shown parked next to the first set:Another view:I decided to tackle the...
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Post 20 in a continuing series....---------------Work continues on the set of beams comprising the cornice of the support stand.These beams will join to one another with locking miter joints, and I...
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Compare and Contrast
Wood has grain, comprised of fibers which are adhered to one another and which are bonded to one another with lignin. Grain bonds are stronger in certain directions than others. When you work with...
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Post 21 in a continuing series....----------------Starting out today with some of the following pieces staring me in the face:After the joinery is completed on the cornice pieces, I will profile them....
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Post 22 in a continuing series...---------------Nice to have had a few days off over the past week. Winter has finally arrived with a 5~7 cm snowfall yesterday.Working still on the miter joints for the...
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Post 23 in a continuing series...----------------I took the opportunity to clean up those 9/4 thick, 12" wide boards which came into my hands recently. First off, of course, is jointing:The Aigner...
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Post 24 in a continuing series....------------The past couple of days have been interrupted by two visits to Orange, MA, where a Craigslist ad had lead me to a 100-year old woodworking shop which has...
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Post 25, not even half way there yet in this series.------------------Now working on the connection between the cornice rail assembly and the inverted 'T' form beam assembly. There the parts connect...
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Post 26 in a continuing series, which might be interrupted at any point to dig into other topics, you never know.--------------------Some reader, in a private communication a bit too sensitive to be...
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An Embarrassment of Riches
The past couple of years in business have been sufficiently solid that I have been able to make investments in my shop infrastructure. Most of that has been by way of large woodworking machines, many...
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Before getting to project progress stuff, I guess a few more chisel set pics wouldn't hurt, as the earlier ones shared in the previous post were a bit dark. Hope this gives a clearer view:The gumi has...
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Post 28 in a continuing series, and 900th post since this blog was started back in 2009.-----------I got tired of using a screwdriver across the terminals of the otherwise dead start switch on my...
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Post 29 in a continuing series.----------------I recently learned that some links were absent from the 'Ming Inspiration' series of posts from 2009~2010, a 50-post build detailing the construction of a...
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Post 30 in a continuing series...---------------------While the posts connect to the long side inverted 'T' beams by way of a tiny 5mm square peg, the beams themselves connect through to the...
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A Ming-Inspired Cabinet (31)
Post 31 in an ongoing series....---------Continuing on with the stretcher cut out and fitting. With the long side stretchers fitted to each post, the posts and stretchers could be assembled together...
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Post 32 in a series....-------------------Stand #2 is now complete to the same point as the first stand:One of the pillow blocks for that unit in place:These two stands have certainly absorbed a fair...
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A Ming-Inspired Cabinet (33)
Fitting the cap rail assembly to frame #1:I feel like I've been doing a fair share of mortising lately in getting these cap rails on. There's a lot of joinery in this support stand, that's for sure.The...
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