Why Pay? 24/7 Free Access to Free Woodworking Plans and Projects A Guide to Honing and Sharpening Woodworking Tools One of the most important skills a woodworker can acquire is the ability to sharpen tools easily and well. Working with hand tools can be a frustrating experience unless you have sharp tools. The goal of this lesson is, with a mimimum of equipment, is for you to be able to produce razor sharp cutting edges on any tool blade consistently. This lesson focuses on honing. There are three areas of expertise in sharpening: The mechanics of what is a sharp edge. What are sharp tools We could describe a sharp tool as one you can shave with. Click on the picture to enlarge Why Sharpening Guides Make it Harder The most important thing you can come away with from this lesson is the technique for holding and moving a tool on a stone. Jigs and guides do have a place.
Complete Guide to Woodworking Alabama Woodturners Association Contact: Nelson Brooks Phone: 205-988-3530 Web site: www.alabamawoodturners.com Alabama Woodworkers Guild PO Box 26665 Birmingham, AL 35260 Email: WebMaster@AlabamaWoodworkersGuild.Org Web site: www.AlabamaWoodworkersGuild.Org Last Frontier Woodcarvers 22441 Glacier View Drive Eagle River, AK 99577 Email: Walter_Jr@Jones-Clan.com Alaska Creative Woodworkers AssociationPO Box 201796 Anchorage, AK 99520-1796 Contact: Tom Gamble Phone: 907-243-6369 Arizona Association of Fine Woodworkers Box 44264 Phoenix, AZ 85064-4264 Email: bsaagmillwork@earthlink.net Web site: www.azfinewoodworkers.org Desert WoodcraftersTucson, AZ 85742 Contact: Alan Crosby Phone: 520-744-4973 Email: President@desertwoodcrafters.org Web site: www.desertwoodcrafters.org Woodworkers Association of Arkansas 4 Petress Court Little Rock, AR 72211 Web site: www.woodworkersofarkansas.org Bay Area Woodturners AssociationSenior Center in San Ramon Web site: www.bayareawoodturners.org St. St. St.
Joinery Basics The best way to hold together a high-end woodworking projects, whether you're building a timber-frame home, putting together a trestle table or making a step stool, is with a bit of glue and hand cut joints. It is easier to use mechanical fasteners, like nails and screws, but to add that look of first-class work, with smooth, metal free visible areas, nothing will do the job like a direct joint between parts, bonded with glue. Of course, the type of joint you need depends on a variety of factors, like the nature of the materials, the function of the joint, strength and appearance, available equipment, and your own level of skill. Joinery may be intimidating to the beginner, but, like any other building skill, all it takes is a bit of practice. Here we dissect the workings of two primary joints, the edge joint and the mortise and tenon.
Woodworking: Making wood projects without using nails, screws, or glue. Make knock-apart shelves, hinges, latches, books, chairs, cabinets, spice containers, doors, desks, and toolboxes using only wood to hold them together. Almost any wood project can be made without using any metal fasteners or glue. This instructable details the techniques and tools I have successfully used over the years to do this. So, rather than just showing a single project, I will demonstrate a system of fairly simple woodworking joints that you can use to create your own wood projects. Best of all, all the projects featured here can be entirely made with hand tools (although power tools will make it go faster and easier). Woodworking without metal or glue is of course nothing new. 1-Using these age old techniques, you can save on the cost of fasteners and expensive power tools. 2-Most projects can be easily taken apart for shipping or transport. 3-All-wood joints and fasteners allow for the wood to move with seasonal shrinkage and expansion. Pic 2 is a cabinet of pine and cedar.
DIY Succulent Pallet Table | Far Out Flora - StumbleUpon Max with the new Succulent Table. Can you believe that our latest DIY project was once just a couple of junky pallets and some scrappy table legs? Crazy…if I didn’t have photos, I wouldn’t believe it myself. Not too long ago, we whipped out a coffee table sized succulent table out of an old shipping crate. Now we scaled it up. The pallets. First bit of advice, deconstructing pallets are a big pain unless you have the right tools…and our hammer and wall scrapper wasn’t quite doing the trick. Couple good planks. Love the scares of time left on these chunks of pallet wood. Attaching the legs. After pulling apart two pallets, we used the 2 x 4 sized boards to make a rectangular frame to attached the appropriated table legs. Dry run for fittings. Like TV magic (and 2 days later), the table was more or less put together. Megan with some semps. After a weekend of slivers and sweat, we finally got to plant this baby. Getting messy. Packing them in. Yeah, we didn’t hold back on jamming them.
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Video Copyright © 2006-2019 The Wood Whisperer Inc. The Wood Whisperer, The Wood Whisperer Guild, TWW, and TWW Guild are trademarks of The Wood Whisperer Inc. All rights reserved. Designed and developed by Underscorefunk Design This site uses affiliate links. Adding a Hidden Compartment - Woodworking Project Adding a Hidden Compartment The current issue of Woodsmith (No. 127) features a drawer with a hidden compartment that's built into the back of the drawer. But there's more than one way to do this. In fact, adding a hidden compartment is a lot easier than you might think. A while back when I was working on some pigeon hole dividers for a desk, I added a simple hidden compartment behind one of the drawers, see photo. To open the compartment, you have to know exactly where to push. There's really nothing difficult about building the compart- ment, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind. First of all, this won't work in every situation. And when building the compartment, it's best to start with the front piece, see Fig. 2. Have a great weekend, Jon Garbison Online Editor, Woodsmith
55 Great Sites For Woodworkers | Construction Management Schools Do you have a love for woodworking? Having a husband that loves working in the garage and two sons in woodshop at school, I decided to put this list of sites together to help them as well as help others. From the novice to the advanced, if you are looking for some tips and tricks, design ideas, or just want to see what others are doing, this list has what you are looking for. These sites are not listed in any order other than by general topic. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. – Chris Baylor is the woodworking guide for About.com. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
Modern Bookshelves: 25 Very Creative Designs | Decorating Room - StumbleUpon We used to think that the emergence of the Internet will make books obselete. However, since this has not been the case, we therefore continue to need bookshelves to store our collection of books. In this roundup, we will showcase the 25 modern bookshelves, which are not only creative and interesting but very functional as well. 01- Equation Bookshelf ‘Equation Bookshelf’ is a simple idea of to divide things in priority order… put together the books that you need immediately or more important between (parentheses)! Set others between [square brackets] and {braces}. 02- Escape Into Your Cave Created as a bookshelf with its own Cave inside, this shelf allows you to retreat with a good book, or just sit and relax in your space. 03- Console Bookshelves This modern Console Bookshelf by Stanislav Katz doubles as a reading bench. 04- REK Bookcase The REK Bookshelf expands and collapses like an accordion to provide you with more space for storing books. 11- Infinity Bookshelf 12- READ wall shelf
Light Wood, Literally: Glow-in-the-Dark Outdoor Furniture Not light as in weight nor as in the tone of the wood, this furniture is literally alight from within – bands of bright orange, purple, blue and white layered between slices of wood to create a remarkable look. The stylistic result sits somewhere between high-end craft and luxury contemporary design. Designed to work as small stools, ottomans, or coffee tables, just imagine turning out the lights and letting these objects be the sole source of illumination for a room – perfect for parties, though perhaps a bit strange and/or overly colorful on a day-to-day basis unless kept to a outdoor garden, porch or patio space that could use some additional nighttime lighting. The so-called Bright Woods collection from Gruppo Avanzini employs stripes of various kinds of wood with resin infill between each layer. Most are more uniform in color, darkness and grain to give equal weight to both the wooden and artificial elements.