Craftisian Blogs

Some of you are aware that I volunteer at The Nevada County Narrow Gauge RR Museum restoring late 19’th/ early 20’th century railroad stock. This i...

 The outer ring is made up of 4 blanks. The first one is shown below. [image.png]   The blank is a rectangle in cross section with a trough cut do...

This is the desired result. [image.png]   After the centers are carefully located the blank is mounted on the lathe. [image.png]   Next I mounted ...

 Now I can glue the two assemblies together. The thin strip in the saw kerfs provides the required alignment. This step was a bit stressful. The th...

 I had put steps on each side of the outer ring blanks. These steps were to be used to have a reference surface parallel to the trough axis. But af...

 The upper half is another set of glue ups. The first one is with a layer of maple and walnut. [image.png]   Once the layers are sanded to final t...

The first glue up is a layer of maple and walnut. These pieces have extra thickness and will be set to the correct thickness later. [image.png]   I...

 This project is part of a larger project that I have not yet shared (once I do, I’ll put the link here).    Also, the build sequence has enough de...

Ok. Here is the primary reason I'm building these side tables. Plans were to keep the tables stupid-simple to avoid any drama. I violated my goal ...

 [IMG_1081.png]     Boy and Girls,   [Woo-Hoo.png] … finally got to them.   While many love them and swear by them, some like me swear at them an...

[02.jpg] Boys and Girls,   While preparing article migrations from LJ to here, I came across this Blog I posted there on May 27, 2020.   With the p...

  The Finds  Some projects come together as a confluence of accidental planning, and sometimes the story of how it came together is as satisfying a...