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Rack 'em up
With the arrival of the shaper in the past weeks, my shop space, about 650 square feet, was starting to get a wee bit cramped. Looking around for ways to use the existing space a little more...
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Can't See the Forest for the Trees (II)
I'm not a logger or a sawyer, so I can't speak exactly from those perspectives. I have logged and I have sawn logs many times in my life, not enough to be any sort of expert in either matter, but I'll...
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Can't See the Forest for the Trees (III)
In the previous post I delved into the topic of log scaling to a certain extent, and now want to move on to look at the sawing process. Just as there are various ways to scale a log and compute the...
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The Tale of the Hammer
Some form of striking tool is common, I would imagine, to every carpentry tradition on the planet. In Japan of course various versions, tiny to huge, see wide use. Recently I was reading some Japanese...
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Sidling up to Sideboards (2)
This thread is a continuation of the 'Mizuya' Series, an exploration of kitchen sideboard design (see here). That series of posts started in October 2012. Geez, has it been that long?!After working up...
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Can't See the Forest for the Trees (IV)
In the previous post in this series I looked at the outcomes of sawing a log through-and through in three different orientations:No adjustment for log taper (cuts A, B, and C)Ajust taper so pith of log...
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Can't See the forest for the Trees (V)
The previous post concluded by looking at how a log is typically sawn up: first into a squared-up cant, then sawn through and through to produce boards. Only a few of the boards produced by this method...
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Buttoning things Up?
A month or two back I managed to a acquire a 2000 Martin T20 shaper with sliding table. It was a couple of weeks later that I managed to get power to it as the main load centers for my shop space were...
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Buttoning Things Up? (update)
Still trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious lower counter on my Martin shaper's display. Where we last left off I had found a section in the maintenance manual where it stated that if the...
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Buttoning Things Up? (mystery solved)
In yesterday's post I mentioned that I had at last managed to get the lower spindle height counter on my shaper to reset, to a value of 6.000". While I was glad that the counter could be reset, I was...
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Sidling Up to Sideboards (3)
The design process with the sideboard, fast becoming an 'odyssey', continues, a series of posts that started back in the fall of 2012.In one of the comments received after the previous post in this...
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Book Sale
Every once in a long while I take a look at what I have in the bookcase and decide to do a purge. That way, I can make room for more! Prices are as marked, and discounts are possible if you buy several...
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TAJCD Volume II Revision
Thanks to some help from a doctoral student in Germany, I was able to learn of some glitches in, and make several minor revisions to, The Art of Japanese Carpentry Drawing Volume II. This essay, linked...
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Cabinet Shuffle
* I inadvertently hit 'publish' while in the middle of writing this piece yesterday so some readers saw this before it was ready. My apologies! -------When I was 19 or 20 years old I had part time work...
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One Shot for Glory
An alternate title for this post might have involved the word 'nipple' however I thought better of it. No telling what sort of traffic that might attract.Both of my German-made woodworking machines use...
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A Square Deal
I recently connected with a new client from the west coast who is interesting in commissioning one, or maybe two, pieces of furniture. This person, 'Client H' I'll call him, spent several years living...
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For a chuckle - - I guess this does relate to roofing somewhat:Crows are so smart!
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A Square Deal (2)
This is a series of posts describing the design and build of a square coffee table.In the last post, I mentioned that the client had expressed a preference for Claro Walnut, and showed sketches of a...
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A Square Deal (3)
This is a series dealing with the design and construction of a coffee table and maybe more.In the previous post I mentioned that I had been having trouble finding just the right piece of walnut for the...
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