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Making Dowels
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MrRick
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Part 6:
Router Method
There are two ways of making dowel on the router. Using a fence and round over bit or a jig /die setup similar to the Table Saw method. USING A ...
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Part 7:
My Current Method
My current method is using my Dowel Maker . Please follow this link and feel free to make comments. Stock is cut just slightly larger than what y...
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Part 8:
Conclusion - Which is the best IMO
Here are the methods of making dowel 1. Drill and push through steel flat bar 2. Hammering through a holed plate 3. The Chisel Method 4. able saw ...
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Vises
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MikeB_UK
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Part 6:
Hi Vise - Body
I'm making the body out of an ash 2x4. so cut to size and square up. [20230915_162313.jpg] [20230915_163836.jpg] Drill and tap the main hole [20230...
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Part 7:
Hi Vise - Finish
Make the handles for the fixing screws. [20231001_160522.jpg] [20231001_161419.jpg] Just rasp into shape and add a bit of walnut to the end to hi...
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Part 8:
Mini Hi-Vise version 2
Well, the mini vice mount Hi-Vice gets pretty much constant use, so it’s time to make a nicer one based on the prototype. Pretty happy with the ...
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Handy Tools
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Dave Polaschek
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Part 1:
Skew carving gouge
While working on the Altai Project Logo carving, I discovered I needed a narrow skew in order to get down into some of the corners. I have a handfu...
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Part 2:
Handle for LAP engraving tool
I bought a Lost Art Press engraving tool a while back. The short metal handle works fine for putting it into a compass, but for freehand use, it’s ...
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Part 3:
Sharpening shelf for sharpening carving gouges
A while ago, I read Dave Fisher’s post on his Souped-up Sharpening Shelf and thought that sounded like a great idea to get some consistency in my g...
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Replacing a Chair Back Molding
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Lazyman
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Part 1:
Let's do this the hard way -- Designing for the CNC
My sister asked me if I would be interested in repairing the back of a barstool. The stool is metal but has (had) a piece of wood molding on the b...
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Wood prep and milling on the CNC
A couple of years before my sister asked me to make a new chairback molding. I had collected the trunk of a dead redbud tree from her yard with th...
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3-Arm Kerfing Plane
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DevinT
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8 entries
Part 6:
Open letter to Brent Hull
I sent an e-mail to someone that I admire. He responded, which is amazing. His response was short and sweet: Good stuff! Thanks for sharing. B ...
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Part 7:
Little details
These are words I tell myself in the throes of the process: Any fool can put something together. It takes a special kind of fool to design somethi...
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Part 8:
Blade cover
My town has a store that only sells imported Japanese hand tools. I only recently heard about it this year, but I wouldn’t doubt it if it has been ...
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Traditional Portuguese Rajao
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Rhoots
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Part 10:
Soundboard finished and installed
Fitted the braces and reinforcing ring to the inside of the soundboard. [IMG_2648.jpeg][IMG_2650.jpeg] Fitted the soundboard to the body. I suppose...
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Part 11:
Odds-n-Ends
Taking care of the other details now that the main assembly is complete. Added the binding at the soundboard. Started out as 1 x 5mm Black Walnut. ...
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Part 12:
Finished
Fretboard and bridge are Black Walnut, Finished with shellac. [IMG_2694.jpeg][IMG_2696.jpeg]
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Shop storage
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Dave Polaschek
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6 entries
Part 4:
Box clamps box
Another storage box, this time from ¼ inch poplar and Baltic birch ply for the top. Treated (this morning) with kakishibu, which darkens with expos...
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Part 5:
Small parts organizer
[IMG_7711.jpeg] Just a quick and dirty project to use up some smalls and keep this organized when I’m doing something like this morning’s bench gl...
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Part 6:
Things fall down 2
My cheap-ass Harbor Freight dust collector has picked up a bit of a vibration. Enough so that last Sunday, it vibrated itself right off the French ...
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Shaper Origin
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DevinT
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Part 1:
Chair Seat
The neighbor restores furniture and sells it at fairs. She picked up some ratty rattan chairs where the webbing was gone. I said I could make her ...
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Jigs
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Kelly
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Part 1:
Bandsaw Cork Cutting Jig
This is a tutorial on making a simple jig for cutting wine corks in half, along their length. The jig requires only simple scraps to build and is...
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14” Rockwell Bandsaw
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DevinT
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Part 1:
Initial testing
Before testing I took the covers off. Tires were pretty gummed up. So I grabbed my Red Devil scraper and spun the wheels while holding the scraper ...
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Replacement trunnion knob
It’s clear in retrospect looking at the initial photos of it in the salvage yard, taken moments after arrival that it was always missing one of the...
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