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Store Projects Tools Techniques Videos Subscribe Renew Customer Service Woodworking Magazine Blog Swounds Posted 06 30 2010 in Chisels Christopher is at our off-site photo studio today shooting video segments on the proper use of hand tools for some upcoming Shop Classes the videos are tentatively scheduled for an August release But , it seems he's paying more attention to how he looks on camera than to what he's doing . or perhaps he's simply channeling Roy Underhill . Watch what not to : do â Megan Fitzpatrick Comments 4 Wednesday , 30 June 2010 17:04:21 UTC Not to laugh at your misfortune Chris , but , lol . Isn't that always the way it goes . Don't do this . WHOOPS Well , rub some dirt in it and get back to work . marc spagnuolo Wednesday , 30 June 2010 18:19:03 UTC That's what you
For Artisans Benefits Sign Up Share Home Blog About Us Back To CustomMade.com 06.29.10 : Going custom and going green These bar stools are made of reclaimed southern yellow pine , salvaged from a building in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston . quot Made by Quentin Kelley Thankfully , the inhabitants of our world have started to realize the impact that our day to day routine is having on our planet The last decade has brought an enormous amount of environmental awareness , and more and more people are going green . Some bring reusable bags to the grocery store rather than using plastic ones , others convert their cars to run on vegetable oil or forget the car altogether and take a bicycle to get around . Point is , human beings are , and hopefully will continue to be more cognizant of
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Apparently it doesn’t take much to make me happy and finding this locally sure did. Boiled Linseed Oil [BLO] is easy to find and is ‘chemically boiled’ with the addition of metallic dryers to make the raw linseed oil, boiled linseed oil. I don’t know what the chemicals are and they won’t tell me. There [...]
A couple of years ago I built a set of end tables and a matching coffee table for our family room. They are built in the craftsman style, which happens to be my personal favorite style. And yes, if you have read any of my earlier posts, you can safely assume that they were made [...]
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The workshop in Las Vegas for the Piano Technicians Guild is coming up and I will be heading south on Wednesday. So I spent this morning getting the glue, glue pots, glue brushes, glue spoon, toothing planes and scraper, glue comb and all things glue related for the workshop.
Not only will I be going on [...]
For Artisans Benefits Sign Up Share Home Blog About Us Back To CustomMade.com 06.21.10 : 2010 Furniture Society Conference A few items featured in the live auction Last week , we attended the 2010 Furniture Society Conference , Fusions : Minds Hands Shaping Our Future at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge . The conference , held inside the Kresge Auditorium considered to be an architectural work of art in itself , focused on bringing together every aspect of furniture making past , present , and future . The keynote address , The Value of Working with Your Hands” was given by Ray Magliozzi of NPR’s Car Talk a well known mechanic , and accomplished . woodworker Our president Mike , and the rest of us here at CustomMade.com would like to congratulate and welcome
I was recently asked about the process of scribing stair treads and risers to fit an uneven wall. While the answer to this particular question deals with installing stair parts, the process is known as scribing and can be used on a multitude of different woodworking projects. We all wish that the walls or staircases [...]
Amber (Succinite C40H64O4) is called a fossil resin but it has not been replaced with minerals it has just survived for tens of thousands to millions of years. The sap from a variety of pine trees [Pinus spp.] that has oxygenated and hardened as all of its volatiles have since left, it is used for [...]
It must be very frustrating being a tool manufacturer. As woodworkers, we demand that our tools perform flawlessly each and every time we use them. We also demand that in all but some very rare cases that the tool be capable of doing more than one task. You wouldn’t be very happy with your tablesaw [...]
This is a Cocobolo box I recently completed. It was shaped with my grinder and a whole lot of hand sanding.
If you use Hide Glue.
I have been invited to do two, 3 hour workshops at the Piano Technicians Guild Convention in Las Vegas at the end of the month. I will teach a class on Saturday June 26, 2010 and on Tuesday June 29, 2010 with Vince Mrykalo. Vince took a dozen Hide Glue books [...]
I met Steven when he was a energetic red haired youngster with an impressionable mine. We were both working at Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement in Noblesville Indiana in 1977-78, I was the Cabinetmaker and he was kid looking for a direction. I watched him try and hew a dry white oak log with a broad ax [...]