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My first CNC Machine
This was my first design for a home built CNC router. The project took about 4 months to complete and a little longer to create my first project which was a simple address plaque. There were small...
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Shane's Backyard Workshop
This blueprint consists of a overall close to perfect workshop. As you can see I laid out all of my machines and materials in a orderly fashion in a letter C shape. Starting at the bottom you pick...
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Half Size
This Model hapens to be half the size of my existing shop. I currently have a 24 x 40 shop/garage, but no where near the tools that I have placed in my dreamshop on here. If I ONLY had the money...
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Baby planes
5 commentsA look at an instrument maker's standby, and some ideas for using them in furniture making
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Restrained
5 commentsThis is an artwork using an old hand drill. It is incased in layers of plywood with mahogony venier on top and mahogony for the base. It is about the economy and people not having enough work or...
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The long, winding road to Fine Woodworking
6 commentsFine Woodworking's newest associate editor talks about Spain, hurdy-gurdies, and his unlikely path to being a part of his favorite magazine.
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Pencil Holder
11 commentsJust thought I would make a pencil holder out of a paper coffee cup. The base is Ash and the cup and base are covered in polymer resin so it will last awhile. I let the resin drip down the side to...
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Thomas Jefferson Swivel Windsor Chair
1 commentThomas Jefferson Swivel Windsor Chair. I made this pretty faithfully to the one Jefferson designed and used to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. I used plans made by Craig...
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Butterfly Tavern Table
Light Figure Tiger Maple Butterfly Tavern Table. Stained with aniline Dye, Shellac, and top coat of wax.
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Elmers Glue
This is a piece made of scraps form another piece I made. It's a play on words, Elmers Glue as if it belonged to him.
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The Plain Truth
This is a art work I made. It's a play on words and about politics really. The wood plains are whittling away the message on the board, "The Plain Truth."
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Are CNC machines ready for Fine Woodworking?
90 commentsFuniture makers often adopt new technologies to save time and lower costs, but some woodworkers say using CNC machinery isn't woodworking. What do you say?
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The Cordless Drill, artwork
1 commentThis is a humorious piece and a play on words, "The Cordless Drill" as we already had drills that were cordless for hundreds of years. The title is made in the brass printers plate with holes drilled...
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The Carpenter
2 commentsThis is a sculpture about my father who taught me woodworking when I was just a kid. Many of the tools on this piece were his. His outfit is made of 13 ply hardwood plywood cut up to make the parkay...
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Duck head scraper
This duck head scraper win the first prize in the aesthetics category at the WoodCentral's first toolmaking contest.
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Carving Knife
I made this knife for a friend upon finding out that he didn't own one suitable for carving. I made the blade from a jigsaw blade and carved the handle from a choice piece of Pacific Dogwood...
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