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Workbench Project: Done!

Posted in Projects, tagged , , , , , on March 28, 2010 | 16 Comments »

This winter was a fairly productive one for me because I completed two major projects:  a doll wardrobe and (drum roll, please) my new workbench.  This workbench has been a long time coming: In 2002, I started planning to build a workbench.  I bought some supplies and began working on a base, but I had [...]

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Doll Wardrobe Project: Done!

Posted in Projects, tagged , , , on December 27, 2009 | 15 Comments »

It was a lot of work, but I completed the doll wardrobe in the (Saint) nick of time:  I finished applying the final coat of clear coat around 11:00pm on December 22.  Here’s a summary of my finishing process: Take the doors off the carcase and remove all hardware. Fill all imperfections and nail holes.  [...]

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Doll Wardrobe Project: Construction Complete

Posted in Projects, tagged , , , on December 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I finally finished construction on the doll wardrobe project.  All the woodworking is complete, so now I just have to prime, paint, and clear coat the whole piece.  I am going to paint the interior a cream color and the exterior a sage green.  I have a week and a half left before Christmas to [...]

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Doll Wardrobe Project: Main Carcass

Posted in Projects, tagged , , , on November 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »

I’ve been busy lately working on the doll wardrobe project.  As I discussed in Episode 52, this project is a wardrobe designed to hold the clothes and accessories for my daughter’s American Girl doll.  It’s going to be a Christmas present and I’ve still got a lot of work to do. A quick peek at [...]

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Sometimes You Do Whatever It Takes

Posted in Shop Talk, tagged , on November 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Sometimes you do whatever it takes to keep a project flat and square during a glue-up.

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Adjustable Dado Jig

Posted in Shop Talk, tagged , , , on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

As I discussed in Episode 52, I’m currently building a doll wardrobe as a Christmas present for my daughter.  I’m using 3/4” birch plywood for the main carcass, and 1/2” birch plywood for the interior dividers.  The interior dividers will be housed in stopped dados. My original plan was to use a plywood-sized router bit [...]

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Episode 52: The Great Magazine Clean-Out

Posted in Audio, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Click here to play In this episode, I give an overview of the holiday projects I currently have going in my shop, I explain my plan to control the avalanche of woodworking magazine back issues that are filling my house, and I introduce a new mailbag segment where I answer listeners questions.

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Episode 51: To Build It Is to Ruin It

Posted in Audio, tagged , , , on August 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Click here to play A new project, fake workbenches, and the perils of building your dream woodworking project. You can check out the Markham Console Bar that I mention in this episode here.

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Episode 50: I Can’t Believe I Missed That!

Posted in Audio, tagged , , , , , , on July 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Click here to play Drop off the grid for a little while and you’re bound to miss out on some exciting happenings in the woodworking world. In this week’s episode, I do a quick survey of some of the interesting goings-on that I didn’t get to talk about over the past few weeks. You can [...]

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Nightstand Project: Fitting The Tenons

Posted in Projects, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I rough cut my tenons with power tools, but I fit them to their mortises exclusively with hand tools.  I like the control that hand tools give me during this operation. I started out with a rough cut tenon.  I cut this tenon on my table saw using the same technique demonstrated in my previous [...]

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