New Woodworking Phone App Is Changing How I Work, Plus Awesome Bench Clamp Build
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I first made this bench hold down clamp over 20 years ago, but it was temporary then, and not sure where it went (probably into another project) today I am making a new one, modular, so I can use different top components with it like wood, or steel angle-iron for bench clamping different kinds of flat wood to my bench.
The bench clamp is quite easy, but does have a few features that if you just look at it, you can easily miss.
Note: This article does NOT have further info on the phone App Woodworkers Companion, it's free to download and use from the Apple App Store or Google Playbooks, and only take a few minutes to download and begin using, or you can go directly to website here - http://www.mywoodapp.com
Breaking Bad Coffee Table! No plans, Pure Screenshots
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Easily the longest build I have ever tackled, the Breaking Bad Coffee Table build. Inspired by a coffee table I saw during the TV series (5 seasons). I needed to re-watch all the episodes (62) AND take picture off the TV, in order to get the grasp of exactly how this table looked.
THEN ... from those pictures, try to reconstruct size, with dimensions and details of the build.
After the first few episodes I decided it would be best to build a model of what I had seen so far ...
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Forgotten Woodworking Tips Anyone Can Use
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There are so many woodworking tips it's hard to remember them, but often when we see one or two we have used in the past, reminds of others useful ideas.
A recent project I was working on reminded me of a couple of things I not used in a long, long time ...
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 - UPDATED
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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.
UPDATE: The Mosrite Guitar is now on Display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, see bottom of article
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 ...
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