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A Step Stool With Box Joints and Loose Tenons
21 commentsThe other day I received an e-mail from a reader who was struggling with small step stool he was trying to draw. His stool has angled legs that are wider at the bottom than at the top. The bevels and...
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Wudworx--A Handy Plugin Set For Joinery
7 commentsAlmost exactly two years ago I wrote about a plugin tool set called Wudworx which has been very helpful for me in speeding up the process of drawing dovetail joints as well as basic mortises and...
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Knife Box - Williamsburg Conference
1 commentHere's a worthy challenge for woodworkers using SketchUp. Modeling this Williamsburg Knife Box requires execution of most key SketchUp Tools and features. The Box's compound angles, bold scroll...
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Drawing a Water Wheel
2 commentsOne of our readers e-mailed me and asked about drawing a waterwheel in SketchUp. He's setting up a plan for a wheel to be built as a kit and shipped to Honduras where it will be assembled and set up...
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Lady's Travelling Box - Williamsburg Conference
4 commentsAt this week's conference "Working Wood in the 18th Century" in Colonial Williamsburg, I was intrigued by Brian Weldy's presentation on Thomas Sheraton's drawing representations of the Ladys...
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Drawing a Shop Cabinet in SketchUp - Casters and Drawers
9 commentsIn my previous blog post I showed drawing the case for a shop cabinet designed by a fellow woodworker. Now it's time to add drawers and some casters so we can move the thing around the shop. He and I...
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Chamfered Post Table Mortise & Tenon Joints
2 commentsI probably receive the most comments on my eBook "SketchUp Guide for Woodworkers" in the section of Chapter Nine covering mortise & tenon joints in the Chamfered Post Table. To help show the...
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Drawing a Shop Cabinet in SketchUp - Part I
6 commentsLast weekend, during an online training session with a woodworker who is learning SketchUp, he suggested the things we were doing might be useful for others who are in the same boat. We were working...
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A Toolbox for Cub Scouts
Here is a quick project, both in SketchUp and in the shop. The project is a simple toolbox nailed together without special joinery. It has been designed to use with a group of Cub Scouts without use...
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A Raised Panel Door with a Cathedral Panel
2 commentsThe other day a fellow asked about drawing frame and panel doors with arched or cathedral panels for a pantry cabinet he is designing. He is planning to have some tall doors at the bottom and a...
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A Little Puzzle Box
4 commentsLast weekend I spent a little time in the shop and made some little boxes to use as Christmas gifts. They are based upon a puzzle bank I found in the book Puzzles in Wood by E. M. Wyatt, published in...
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Designing in SketchUp - a Planing Sled
6 commentsNext semester I will be teaching a hand tools class at an adult education school with a complete woodworking shop. However, the workbenches (salvaged from a middle school) are in terribly bad shape...
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Axes Location - Adirondack Chair
Our local woodworking group (Diablo Woodworkers) will be making several Adirondacks for a Sierra Camp for kids with cancer. I've just finished the design in SketchUp and will use it as an example for...
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Adding Diagonal Bracing
3 commentsEvery so often I have a need to add diagonal bracing to a project. The braces on the side of this book shelf are a good example of that. In the shop you would make the brace longer than needed, offer...
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More Details -- A Bail Pull
6 commentsThe other day a friend of mine asked me how to draw this drawer pull with the bent bail. It looks pretty difficult but thanks to a plugin called Shape Bender. Take a look at this video. Note, if...
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Carving (Branding) the Lowboy
My previous blog entry showed a video of the building of the Philadelphia Lowboy in SketchUp. Several of the components in the SketchUp model showed the carving that is typical of these pieces. These...
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How To Show Different Material Options
6 commentsA couple of days ago I got an e-mail from a fellow who had drawn a SketchUp model for a project. He wanted to show his client some different wood options and asked how to do that. Here's a way to do...
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Building a Philadelphia Lowboy
5 commentsBelow I've attached a video showing how the lowboy is constructed piece-by-piece. I've taken advantage of the SketchUp capability to reposition the axes on components. When right-clicking on the...
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Details -- Inserting an Ebony Spline
7 commentsI've been working on a Greene & Greene-inspired bed recently. I needed to add an ebony spline to the corners between the posts and the top rails. Here's a video to demonstrate how I did it. Since I...
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SketchUp 3D Basecamp -- A Brief Roundup
19 commentsEarlier last week the SketchUp team and Trimble hosted 3D Basecamp in Boulder, Colorado. For avid SketchUp users 3DBC is a great time to network with and learn from other SketchUp users. I had an...
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