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Home Project: With the renovations for our house nearing completion, we felt it was time to replace the old rusted metal mailbox with something new, and in keeping with the character of the house. After sketching several ideas, I chose this Arts & Crafts influenced design.
Scroll Project: While this article is written primarily for novice scrollers, advanced scrollers may be interested in the technique I used to attach the pattern to the project pieces.
Wood Carving: Carving for fun is a great way to learn how to carve for "serious". This project demonstrates all the skills and techniques one would use to relief carve a realistic profile. With a cartoon, you can relax and enjoy yourself because absolute accuracy is not necessary.
Furniture Project: The rough texture of slate, combined with the smooth polished surfaces of wood, creates an interesting element in coffee table design.
Furniture Project: As a boy of five I remember looking up to see my granny opening the glass doors of this large, imposing kitchen dresser to locate a dented, well-used tin stuffed to the lid with freshly baked oatmeal and blackberry cookies. This venerable kitchen dresser still stands proudly in my mother’s family home in the historic fishing village of Barachois de Malbaie at the tip of the Gaspé peninsula.
Skill Builder: For many new turners, finding the right technique can be a little frustrating, and they often end up using scrapers to do most of their turning. This article will help you get more use out of your gouges and rely less on your scrapers for shaping.
Wood Wisdom: If you had a chance to practice hand planing a rough piece of wood into a finished four-sided component, as described in my last article, you are now ready to take on the challenge of joining two pieces of wood together.
Wood Joinery: A stopped dado provides the same strength and flexibility that a dado joint does, however it hides the dado itself for a cleaner look on the fronts of bookshelves and other similarly constructed projects. It doesn’t require much extra work and in the long run it is easier than adding a facing strip or veneer to hide the joint.
Skill Builder: If I told you that it was possible to build a stool for your workshop bench without ever picking up a tape measure or ruler, and that if you wanted to, you could build 2 or 2000 stools and they would all be identical, would you think I was trying to tell you a tall tale? No, it’s not a tall tale, but it is a story stick. In this case, it's twenty-nine inches tall.
Shop Machinery: While there are 4" and 6" table top jointers, these are light duty machines that are really only suitable for craft work. They use loud universal motors, and can't deliver solid, vibration-free performance. For furniture building, a 6" floor model (stationary) jointer will better suit your needs. Optimally, it should weigh over 200 lbs., and have a 2 ½" diameter 3-knife cutterhead.
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