These Five Woodworking Jigs Used To Make this Complicated Frame
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During a long awaited vacation in Eastern Canada with my wife, we re-discovered an artist we had both forgotten about, and fell in love with her story and her art. Maude Lewis was from the Nova Scotia and despite a rare crippling disease of "Juvenile Arthritis" she, along with her husband, managed to eek out a living from her paintings and artwork way back in the 1950s era.
We picked up one piece of her art and the Nova Scotia Art Gallery store that my wife already had a place in mind for before we got home. All I had to do was make a picture frame ... easy, or so I thought ... not so.
My "Guess Who" Guitar Gifted to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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Today I am constructing a sturdy shipping crate that will be used to ship my Mosrite Joe Maphis Model 1 to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This article is not much about woodworking but more about my first hand account with the guitar trade between Randy Bachman and Roy Herman in 1968.
Over years since the trade, Roy and I talked frequently about the trade and events before and after and in may ways how it affected the lives of many people, including Randy Bachman who received Roy's Gibson Les Paul, and went on to create an amazing music career and a stunning list of well know songs, using the Gibson Les Paul, that have formed a Rock and Roll music legend. Here is story of the unknown, Mosrite Guitar that was central in this trade.
Genius Woodworking Tips & Jigs You’ve Been Missing
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Making jigs and finding uncovering tips in woodworking seems have maybe become a second nature to me. I find myself even doing this when I visit other woodworkers shops or watch them in their woodworking, and sometimes making subtle suggestions to them ... as they do to me sometimes to, I guess we all learn this stuff together
Here are a few things I have been doing for a while now and I keep meaning to publish the ideas and jigs, and thanks to all who read these and offer even more ideas or ways to make things better ... I always love to hear things like this ...
Resource for Adaptive Woodworking - New Book Announcement
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One-Handed Woodcrafting was written for individuals with upper limb differences, amputations, or injuries who want to continue woodworking, as well as for professionals in rehabilitation, occupational therapy, and adaptive living.
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The book includes: • Illustrated, practical techniques for woodworking with one hand • Guidance on adapting tools and shop practices • Safety considerations for adaptive workspaces • Listings of adaptive devices and resources |
Preview several sample pages directly on the Amazon book page to see the layout and instructional approach.
Woodworking Dowel Hacks for Better Joinery
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Joinery has been the woodworkers quest since the dawn of working with wood. Since that time woodworkers and carpenters have discovered many many different ways of putting wood together through a combination of joints, glues and mechanical fasteners. The quest as often been for the easiest and or the strongest.
When I first discovered the "Dowelmax" doweling jig, it has literally changed my live in woodworking by giving me a joinery system that is quite easy to use, super strong, but most of all VERY accurate and with easily repeatable results. And for these features I have come up with some jigs and modifications that making using the Dowelmax even better.
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How to Turn Fallen Trees Into Awesome Wood Projects
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One of the most cost effective ways of getting inexpensive wood, and being kind to the environment at the same time is using Urban Wood. These are trees that a blown down, flooded out, have a tree disease and need to be taken down or are dangerous to the public. There are thousands of board feet of these trees all across America that municipalities, towns and cities have to deal with and many are looking for help with this.
This is a perfect entry for woodworking Guilds and Clubs to enter the picture, and I have talked at length about this ion the past. Very often these trees can be free to acquire, but they need to be hauled to someone who will mill them and whatever the cost of milling is worth. Still, these are not insurmountable chores and it is still pretty easy to get good usable lumber for very reasonable prices.
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