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Walnut Picture Frame – Part 5…
The frame is finally glued up and nearly ready for finishing. I hate gluing miters, and doing something this large is even worse. My workbench isn’t perfectly flat (it’s also still too cold to glue...
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Walnut Picture Frame – Part 6…COMPLETE!
Once the glue was dry on the splines I could flush trim them. I used a paring chisel to get them close, then a combination of the shoulder plane and rabbet block plane to finish the trimming. Spline...
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Stackable Sawbenches – Design…
One thing I don’t need at the moment is another project. I have some business trips coming up, the packing box project, and plenty of other items on the project list. One thing I do need at the...
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Stackable Sawbenches – $7.17 Sawbench
The smaller of the two sawbenches went together pretty quickly over the course of a few days. I pretty much followed Chris Schwarz’s construction procedure for the $5.87 sawbench from his Workbench...
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Stackable Sawbenches – Sawyer’s Bench…
The second of the stackable sawbenches was a bit delayed, but that’s what happens with an infant! As I mentioned in the Design phase, the second and larger of the two sawbenches is based on the...
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Stackable Sawbenches – Complete…
Both sawbenches are completed now and they came out great! The smaller of the two is what I call the $7.17 sawbench and the full build can be seen here. This is based on Chris Schwarz’s $5.87...
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Not a lot of pictures with this post, sorry about that! This is all just rough dimensioning of the pieces, so a bit boring visually. With all my pieces rough cut I started in on sizing the end pieces...
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Packing Box – Part 4…
In the last post I dimensioned all my stock for the packing box. There wasn’t a lot to show for my efforts there, but this update should be a little more interesting. With the end and side pieces...
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Packing Box – Part 5…
Yesterday I glued up the panels for the top and bottom of the packing crate. Now it’s time to flatten those panels and put everything together. Panel Glued Up Panel Glued Up Essentially I’ll be...
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Packing Box – Complete!
The packing box is complete! I’m really happy with the way it came out. Have a look at some pictures of it below. It’s going to be used as a toy chest, so figured I’d throw some pictures of it in...
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