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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Free Woodwork Plans But at What Cost
What is your next step? Fire up Google of course. You put the phrase "Free Woodwork Plans" into the search engine and you will get over 67,000,000 pages returned. Where to start? You start going through the pages one at a time. You find that most of the pages are not advertising free woodwork plans but are advertising a paid product. The occasional pages you find that actually do have free woodwork plans only have a couple of free plans and nothing that will suit your needs.
By the time you have gone through some of the search results, half the day has gone. Half a day that you could have been working on your project, and you still do not have the plans you wanted. So you download any plan and have to start changing it to meet your needs. This takes another chunk out of your day, and by this time you feel as though you should not have bothered.
You finally have your amended "Free Woodwork Plans", which has cost a lot of time and effort, so you take your amended material list and spend more time gathering the required items. By the time you get home it is not worth starting, as most of the day has already gone.
Does this sound familiar? I know it has happened to me plenty of times before. I have quite often given up with the whole process of looking for plans online.
So why not cut out all of this wasted time and purchase a database of woodwork plans. I know that these are not free woodwork plans but at least you will not waste a good part of your day, looking for free woodwork plans. If you cannot find a plan for your project in the database of up to 14,000 plans, you certainly will not find one searching on the Internet.
What do you get with these paid databases of woodwork plans?
A database of up to 14,000 woodwork plans that you can search at home.
Each plan is in a printable PDF version (no having to buy software to view them).
Each plan has easy to use instructions and diagrams.
All contain a comprehensive materials list.
Imagine being able to search through a database of 14,000 woodwork plans rather than searching 67,000,000 pages on the internet looking for free woodwork plans. Being able to print the plans out and then start work on them straight away. Some plans even include Streaming Video to show you techniques, this can be an invaluable resource at no extra cost. No wasted time, just more time to enjoy your hobby and create that perfect project that you will be proud to show to family and friends.
Now it is easy to complete your project in a few steps:
Select the plan that you want to use..
Print it out.
Take the easy to use material list and purchase the supplies.
Take your time to build the project referring to the easy to read instructions and diagrams.
Stand back and admire the completed item.
Purchasing a set of plans from the Internet makes a lot of sense as it will save time finding that perfect project to build. If you are interested in reading more about these databases of plans, use the link provided below.
Save Your Time Now And Get This Stunning Woodworking Plans
Monday, February 10, 2014
Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you Mister Jones
youll note that in the last three weeks, i have written exactly ONE blog post, and that one i had been writing as we worked along on the project ... a record of blog inattention, even compared to my bloggavacation i took a year or so ago ... mr. dylan asks: what is going on here? i dont know, but, well, let me tell you, its all good. as you can see from the list above, we have (now) 12 committed projects, (13; one just came in by email) including two 54 x 85 x 26" deep recycled chestnut cabinets, a ten foot table, a 17 table, another dining table, six chairs and a coffee table ... lots of stuff. but, on the right, youll notice in the in process column 21 other proposals were working on, most of which, as of right now, are out in the ether, awaiting replies or commitments. the photo below was taken around 11:00 this morning, just before i started scanning and emailing ... just finished it all up a minute ago ... im going to write this and then go have a couple of tall cold ones ... click the photos to enlarge them ...
a few new models ... a 30 x 60 dining table with a steel base; a 60" dining table with two leaves and a stainless base; and a little mockup for a 98" table with a rebar and steel base ... with that project there is also a 42" x 17 table ....
an assortment of proposals, ready to go ...
next up, the two recycled chestnut cabinets mocked up with photoshop
along with those cabinets goes this 48 x 72" recycled chestnut pedestal dining table we finished last week ...
with 3 15" leaves ... better top color in this photo ... love, love, love my red walls, but they can really change the color of things ...
this 38 x 62 mahogany table with a steel shaker base left last week for california ...
bottom view with the actual mahogany color
and now were working on a version of this table we made in 2002,
the main difference in the new design is the shape of the pedestal, which the client took from our walnut and leather poker table ....
and will had to refigure out how to make the edge inlay blanks ... burl, bubinga and end grain peruvian walnut .. he wasnt here yet for the last time around and i couldnt exactly remember how to do it ...
heres how it looked at the end of the day today ... the edge inlay is all in and trevor will glue the burl center inlays in tomorrow in the vacuum bag ... a little clean up, some aprons and the runners and well wrap this one up ... i am planning a post on the whole table process, but certainly, not now ...
close up of the center inlay fitting
next ... this is the model for the 30" x 9 8" elm table with the rebar base, made from an architects sketch ...
the client was concerned that the welded rebar base might need some other support, but sam convinced me that that would be totally unnecessary ... just as a fun test, we took the unglued rubber wood 1/8th " dowel model and loaded it, and put a little side sway weight on it ... no problem ... i imagine the welded steel base will be fine ...
to select the elm slabs for the table tops, i took a little trip to berkshire products in sheffield, mass last week ... if you havent been there or checked their website, its a fantastic wood resource with a great photo website.
bought this one for the single table,
these two for the 17 table ... they will join in the center around an existing brick 30 x 30 column ...
bought a little burl for the cherry table were working on too .. lots to choose from
big leaf maple from the west coast ...
the black and steel 60" table with the stainless base and two leaves ...
and we have a couple serious nibbles on the big claro walnut slab on the wall in the finish room. in this drawing, it will become a 9 x 50" coffee table in aspen.
and lastly in the new model department, we have this maple and steel dining table with a clever adaptation by the clients of our shaker steel base ...
and finally will got his banjo pot turning aparatus for seeders instruments rigged up and it works really slick. it a combination of wood and metalworking tools that, with a little help from some online googling and some parts from grizzly and mcmaster carr, he adapted the whole works to suit his process. this is the inside of the pot turning set up ...
and, to turn the outside, you flip over the tool holder and angle the base plate. hes got two more parts to turn for some banjo orders, so he is really happy that it worked as well as it did.all for now ... thanks for sticking with me. gold star for you if you made it all the way through. turns out i had to have the tall cold ones before i finished ... have a great weekend.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Things Are Sliding But Hopefully Not Downhill
I’ll admit to a strange habit. When a project is stalled because I’m not sure how to handle something, I often take a walk around Home Depot and take in the “stuff”. Often, I’ll see something that triggers an idea, and off I go.
I did this yesterday, walking up and down the aisles aimlessly, trying to figure out how to drill that 20” hole in the hinge in a way that would minimize screwing it up. It came to me in the plumbing section, believe it or not, when I spotted the different sized hose clamps.
This is the result of that brainwave.
I guess you would call this a “Sled”, as I think the term “Feed Table” is reserved for a motorized version of this type of thing.Seeing the hose clamps gave me the concept of how to fix the drill. It wasn’t a stretch of the imagination to come up with the bed, it is just a 1x8 hunk of pine with a couple of 1x2’s used as skates and two more used as guides. A thick coat of LeeValley’s “Waxilit” made the whole thing slide back and forth with minimal force.
I still have to fine-tune the position and height of the drill and make a couple of more clamps to hold and position the hinge. Once I get that done I can take it for a test drive.
The comments from Bill and Steve in response to my last post where I asked for some ideas regarding how to handle this were good, and I appreciated the thought they put into their suggestions. The problem I had was that they both involved cutting up the hinge. Both ideas would work, but both would also take the challenge out of it and frankly, guys, where’s the fun in that?
I’ll let you know how things work out.
Peace,
Mitchell
AN UPDATE!
I produced this jig to minimize screwing up my mahogany hinge while drilling a 1/4" diameter hole through its entire 20" length.
I screwed it up.
Peace.
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