easy wood projects - Design Blogs I Love Cribcandy Edition

easy wood projectsCribcandy isnt so much a blog as it is an I.V. drip of contemporary design tapped directly into your veins. Its the Internet manifestation of ADHD for design. Theres really no commentary either -- its just a presentation of hundreds of new items of furniture, home accessories, architecture, consumer products and weirdness from all over the world. As far as navigation, you can flip through page after page or you can view by category. Unfortunately, theres no search function, as far as I can find. There are also lots of technological gadgetry, but it almost always crosses over...

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easy wood projects - Small Sculpture Workshop

easy wood projectsWe’ve just enjoyed a weekend workshop of small sculpture with Tapawera artist David Carson.In this workshop, you can create one or two wall hung or free standing small sculptures, working with the natural features of various woods, using the jointer, bandsaw and table saw.  In particular I enjoyed the freedom to just create using the natural shapes, colours and characteristics of the wood without having to take consideration of function, structural strength or weight loading etc.Timbers used are often offcuts that would otherwise not have much use in conventional woodworking...

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easy wood projects - Furniture I Love Libby Schrum Design

easy wood projectsI found Libby Schrum’s amazing furniture as I was checking out the website for the Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. (I’ve never been there, but I’d love to go.) I was struck by the variety of Libby’s work and how well it is made. Her furniture is full of ideas that are fully expressed and perfectly executed. Check out her Cork Chair. The curves give it great movement, and I love the milk paint finish.Siblings is a fun take on a standard bench. Again, great idea, great execution.Libby studied at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship and earned a Masters at the...

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easy wood projects - The One That Got Away

easy wood projectsI was tracking a table saw on Craigslist -- a pristine Ridgid 3650 -- but the seller wasn’t willing to come down on the price and I decided that it was just too expensive. He said he had only used it a couple of days and from the photos, I believe it. I understand that he wanted to get as much as he could for essentially a new saw, but the price was too close to the price for a new saw. If it’s only $100 or so cheaper than a brand new one, I think I would just rather wait until I can scrape the extra $100 together. The lifetime warranty on the Ridgid saw is probably worth the...

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woodworking table - Ridgid R4512 Table Saw Blade Alignment

woodworking tableAfter all the hullabaloo I’ve made about being able to align the blade with the miter slot on a saw with table-mounted trunions, it’s time to actually do the deed. I got myself a set of feeler gauges to help with measurements. On my first take, I used a method I’ve seen in several places on the internet. It doesn’t require a dial indicator, which I don’t own. A friend is going to let me borrow one, but if I’m serious about this stuff I need to get one myself. Another thing I’m going to borrow is a good-quality saw blade. That will help me rule out errors caused by a so-so blade...

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easy wood projects - More on Frank Klausz

easy wood projectsAs I said earlier, it was amazing to be able to watch Frank Klausz work and hear what he had to say about his life as a woodworker growing up in the Hungarian trade school system and his views on the craft. I saw him in two sessions today, the first was on the age-old Pins first vs. Tails first argument with another woodworking icon, Roy Underhill. Klausz is a pins first guy. Before he came to America, he had never heard of anyone cutting the tails first. Thats the European tradition. He was describing his very simple method for cutting dovetails, which involves no measuring...

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easy wood projects - For the benefit of history

easy wood projectsAs a non coffee or tea drinker I dont feel very qualified to document the recent happening concerning Johns yellow cup. But some things just need to be recorded for historys sake. A few weeks ago the cup seen below gave its last sip before giving up entirely in the dishwasher. At a very conservative estimate of 2 cups per day, 5 days a week for 40 weeks per year for the last 7 years, the cup has provided John with a little under 3000 cups of coffee. Probably the hardest worked tool in the workshop, the cup now hangs proudly on the wall above Johns bench. Long live the yellow...

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woodworking patterns - Reindeer woodworking patterns

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woodworking table - Ridgid R4512 Table Saw Attaching Table to Stand

woodworking tableAfter I assembled the stand on my Ridgid R4512 table saw, I was ready to attach the top but not until I got past the little problem of moving this 266 pound monster down to my basement. A friend (one who is bigger and stronger than me) helped me (more accurately I helped him) tilt the box onto its side, then wiggle the saw out of the box and the Styrofoam. We put it straight onto a heavy-duty dolly and slid a small piece of plywood between the dolly and the saw to make sure the edges of the miter slots didn’t get dinged up. We secured it with a good rope. I was nervous about wheeling...

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easy wood projects - Woodworking in Space

easy wood projectsIn the future, when we colonize Mars, will we bring with us every possible thing we could ever need or will we make stuff we need? I should probably read up on the force of gravity on Mars, because gravity is why we make most furniture. We need something to hold us and our stuff off the ground. (OK, a short Google search later, and I found that gravity on Mars is only 38 percent of the gravity on Earth. For comparison’s sake, the Moon’s gravity is 83.3 percent LESS than Earth’s.*) So instead of making furniture to hold us up, we might need to make furniture to hold us down....

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woodworking table - Knock down Drag out Table Saws

woodworking tableIn my thinking about table saws, I’ve gone from the extreme of the huge cabinet saw down to thoughts of screwing a circular saw upside down on a piece of plywood and calling it a day. Somewhere in the middle is a guy named Steve Jones who has invented a way of using a Festool circular saw on the Festool Multifunction Table to make a table saw. The amazing thing about this is that the Festool circular saw has a riving knife and has probably the best dust collection system around. It doesn’t look like these kits are in production, but it was a pretty great idea. While it wouldnt...

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easy wood projects - Complete Building shed vs buying

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