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Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Great book of woodworking projects pdf
Great book of woodworking projects pdf
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Full of great ideas: picture perfect tv - flat screen tv frame, Although this amazing project was completed during my $0 budget month, we did plan for it and purchased all the materials a couple of months ago.. The death and life of the great american school system, The death and life of the great american school system and over one million other books are available for amazon kindle. learn more. Picaboo - custom photo books, calendars, prints & phone cases, Create beautiful photo books, cards, calendars and more with picaboo..
Scribd - read unlimited books, Read like you own every book in the world unlimited books, audiobooks & comics · unparalleled discovery · any device · $8.99/month. Woodworking - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Woodworking is the activity or skill of making items from wood, and includes wood carving, joinery, and carpentry.. Project blue book - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Project blue book was one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects (ufos) conducted by the united states air force. it started in 1952, and it. Full of great ideas: picture perfect tv - flat screen tv frame, Although this amazing project was completed during my $0 budget month, we did plan for it and purchased all the materials a couple of months ago.. The death and life of the great american school system, The death and life of the great american school system and over one million other books are available for amazon kindle. learn more. Picaboo - custom photo books, calendars, prints & phone cases, Create beautiful photo books, cards, calendars and more with picaboo..
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
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Monday, February 24, 2014
THE POWER OF PINK pink dresser
This is a big reminder of how powerful color and paint can be.
This dresser use to be in a garage storing tools and other manly things.
The three ASCP colors I worked with were Coco, Antoinette, and Old White.
She has six pretty pink glass knobs and hand painted details on the trim.
She was flat as a pancake so I added trim pieces to fancy her up and give her some curves.
These are off cuts that were donated to the Restore and I was luck enough to show up at the right time to find them. I know if I dont stop in to check Ill just never know what I will be missing out on, so you be sure to stop into your local RESTORE and see what you can find.
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And dont forget to check what is in stock for shabby
chic hardware at firstfinds.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Cant get enough of this color and my new workshop!!!!
I'm on a turquoise color kick! I just love this color from the
Real Milk Paint co. They call it cobalt but it's this stunning shade of turquoise.
This 100 yr old buffet was in great condition.
I didn't want to cover up the wood but just wanted to enhance it a bit.
I forgot to snap a pic before I started. The wood is quarter sawn oak and hardly needed any
attention. I sanded the doors and drawers and went over them with some stain that
matched the body. Painted with the milk paint. Oh I forgot, I actually did a first coat
with the color "peacock" and then did my second coat in cobalt. I didn't want the color
to be too bright and I like the greenish-blue underneath.
I have to post a pic of my new garage makeover-workbench area! Everything was done with stuff
we already had laying around the garage. The wood flooring on the wall has been up in the rafters
for 5 years! Wasn't enough to really do anything with so why not bling up the workspace area?!
Friday, February 21, 2014
Confessions of a Fanboy
I think Im ready to admit something. Ive actually fought against it for a while, but they say acceptance is the first step. So here it goes.
Hi, Im Derek, and Im a Chris Schwarz Fanboy. Ive been a fanboy since around mid 2009 when I started exploring both hand tool woodworking and the online woodworking community. I discovered his blog and that was the end of woodworking as I knew it up to that point. I am not looking to recover, infact I refuse to consider this a problem.
I have built many things he suggested, not just because he said I should, though I always try to be open to the suggestions of those I want to learn from, but mostly because those things have all inspired me. From the simple elegance of the anarchist A-frame layout square to the solid, logical reality of the Anarchists Tool Chest. My main workbench is a hybrid of the Nicholson bench from his first workbench book and the 175 Dollar workbench (adjusted for inflation) he wrote about in the pages of Popular Woodworking. My joinery bench was inspired when he wrote about Tim Williams joinery bench on his blog, and my favorite shop accessory, the Moxon Twin Screw Vise, was also introduced to me by him.
If theres something I have a passion for as much as making sawdust its books, as a result I have built up a good collection of woodworking books and of course Ive bought several of Chriss books, and works hes helped get rediscovered / republished. In his role as a publisher I am blown away by the people hes convinced to bring their own works into print with him. Peter Follansbee, Matt Bickford, George Walker, Jim Toplin and who knows who else will be next. Im excited to find out and as long as quality material keeps flowing, Ill keep buying.
Why am I writing all this? I think its in some way an acknowledgement of where Ive come from and where Im headed on my journey. Its a recognition of someone who has inspired me like only one other woodworker has. Norm Abrams got me to start woodworking, Chris was a big part of inspiring a radical change in the ways I think and feel about this avocation.
But I am for sure writing this as a way of expressing my gratitude. Hold on to this thought while I explain.
2012 has been a rough year on my family. From car issues, to health and surgery issues and all the financial weight that comes with those things. To recently being told that the management of our apartment building has decided to terminate our lease at the end of its year, (to be the end of September) with no reasoning or explanation. We are trying to find an appropriate new home to raise our three girls in, hopefully without making them change schools again, and having less than stellar luck. I know there are people out there who face bigger challenges than we are, we havent faced a natural disaster burning our home to the ground or washing it into the sea, we havent faced the death of a loved one or the hardship of a spouse serving in a war half a world away.
Perspective is the one sure gift that comes from working a day job as a surgical technologist in a busy hospital. No matter how bad things get for me, for us, I know that person on the OR bed, even if they are there voluntarily, is having a worse day, and I need to focus on them. But then there is the evening. The house is quiet, the kids are sleeping, and Im laying awake, my eyes focused on the ceiling but looking into oblivion and I can feel the weight and stress leak through the walls Ive built to hold it away all day long. It pushes on my shoulders like I should be Atlas, and my mind races nullifying any chance to sleep, and I feel like Im on the edge of going crazy.
My salvation is on my bedside table. Its my goldenrod bound copy of The Anarchists Tool Chest from the first print run. Its the version before Chris had a chance to perfect it with an index and repaired typos, and I love that about it. Its spent a lot of time on my workbench, in my shop, and in my hands as I dissected its secrets to build my own version of the tool chest. Ive written notes in some of the margins, corrected typos and mistakes he admitted to once it was published, and left a few grimy thumb prints on the pages. In my opinion all marks of a treasured tome.
But lately, as I battle the stress demons that haunt me at night, its been my salvation. I turn on my reading lamp and open the pages at random. Some nights I get to read the familiar sections on tool choices, (last night I worked my way through the rules for workbenches) Some nights I get to read through an area detailing the chest construction, and some nights I pull open the book all the way into the back and read through what Ive started calling the philosophy and call to war section. After a random period of time has passed the familiar words start to blur and I start to yawn. Ive managed to pack away the stress and my mind is now filled with sugar plum sawdust fairies and Stanley No. 5 candy canes and I drift off to sleep planing the next time I set foot in my shop instead of planning the untimely deaths of the lowly bean counters of the world.
Because Im me, Ive tried to decipher why the book has become so important to me, especially lately. On one hand I think its because its familiar and I know it well. My mind doesnt have to work to process it after Im reading a passage for the umpteenth time, it can just relax and take it in. I have Matthew Bickfords new molding plane book and I found I just had to put it down for now. Its well written and the information is incredible, but I just dont have the neural capacity to assimilate the information right now. I might as well be reading the instructions to set the time on my alarm clock. I will have to circle around back to it, especially after I get my hands on a few hollows and rounds.
The biggest reason I believe Im finding comfort in the book is the theme. There is a flavor of independence and self reliance that hints on every word Chris typed. But its not just independence for yourself, its utilizing your independence to help support and promote the independence of others. Its in the introduction, its in every passage about choosing a tool to last a lifetime, its in the theory of the chest build, and its in the construction details. Those things, those ideals of self reliance and independence are so very important to me, especially at this moment in time when they feel so very out of reach. The Anarchists Tool Chest makes me want to take this moment when Im on the brink of giving in and instead create a mile marker for turning this ship around and righting the course.
And even if you take away the esoteric, the words still remind me that tomorrow, despite everything else, I can still step into the shop and make some plane shavings, and thats something bean counters cant take away from me.
Quite a while ago I managed to catch a comment by Chris on this blog. In a fit a goofiness I slapped a Lost Art Press temporary tattoo on my forehead and posted some pictures of it. Since then I dont know if he ever passes by here on his way around the internet so I dont know if hell ever get my message gratitude. Hell, at this exact moment Im not sure if Ill have the cojones to hit the publish button on this post because its a bit below the skin. I hope someday, maybe a few years from now, Ill have the chance to take a class with Chris and meet him face to face so I can thank him in person for writing a book Ive found so helpful for so many different reasons.
Again, just in case, Thank you Sir!
Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf
P.S. in case you have found yourself trapped in an abandoned mine shaft or trauma induced coma for the last few years and you dont know Chris, his words, and most of his work can be found over at Lost Art Press. If you dont own The Anarchist Tool Chest, what the hell are you waiting for, get over there and buy it. Ive never made that strong of a recommendation of anything in my life before, but I guess I am now.
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Hi, Im Derek, and Im a Chris Schwarz Fanboy. Ive been a fanboy since around mid 2009 when I started exploring both hand tool woodworking and the online woodworking community. I discovered his blog and that was the end of woodworking as I knew it up to that point. I am not looking to recover, infact I refuse to consider this a problem.
I have built many things he suggested, not just because he said I should, though I always try to be open to the suggestions of those I want to learn from, but mostly because those things have all inspired me. From the simple elegance of the anarchist A-frame layout square to the solid, logical reality of the Anarchists Tool Chest. My main workbench is a hybrid of the Nicholson bench from his first workbench book and the 175 Dollar workbench (adjusted for inflation) he wrote about in the pages of Popular Woodworking. My joinery bench was inspired when he wrote about Tim Williams joinery bench on his blog, and my favorite shop accessory, the Moxon Twin Screw Vise, was also introduced to me by him.
If theres something I have a passion for as much as making sawdust its books, as a result I have built up a good collection of woodworking books and of course Ive bought several of Chriss books, and works hes helped get rediscovered / republished. In his role as a publisher I am blown away by the people hes convinced to bring their own works into print with him. Peter Follansbee, Matt Bickford, George Walker, Jim Toplin and who knows who else will be next. Im excited to find out and as long as quality material keeps flowing, Ill keep buying.
Why am I writing all this? I think its in some way an acknowledgement of where Ive come from and where Im headed on my journey. Its a recognition of someone who has inspired me like only one other woodworker has. Norm Abrams got me to start woodworking, Chris was a big part of inspiring a radical change in the ways I think and feel about this avocation.
But I am for sure writing this as a way of expressing my gratitude. Hold on to this thought while I explain.
2012 has been a rough year on my family. From car issues, to health and surgery issues and all the financial weight that comes with those things. To recently being told that the management of our apartment building has decided to terminate our lease at the end of its year, (to be the end of September) with no reasoning or explanation. We are trying to find an appropriate new home to raise our three girls in, hopefully without making them change schools again, and having less than stellar luck. I know there are people out there who face bigger challenges than we are, we havent faced a natural disaster burning our home to the ground or washing it into the sea, we havent faced the death of a loved one or the hardship of a spouse serving in a war half a world away.
Perspective is the one sure gift that comes from working a day job as a surgical technologist in a busy hospital. No matter how bad things get for me, for us, I know that person on the OR bed, even if they are there voluntarily, is having a worse day, and I need to focus on them. But then there is the evening. The house is quiet, the kids are sleeping, and Im laying awake, my eyes focused on the ceiling but looking into oblivion and I can feel the weight and stress leak through the walls Ive built to hold it away all day long. It pushes on my shoulders like I should be Atlas, and my mind races nullifying any chance to sleep, and I feel like Im on the edge of going crazy.
My salvation is on my bedside table. Its my goldenrod bound copy of The Anarchists Tool Chest from the first print run. Its the version before Chris had a chance to perfect it with an index and repaired typos, and I love that about it. Its spent a lot of time on my workbench, in my shop, and in my hands as I dissected its secrets to build my own version of the tool chest. Ive written notes in some of the margins, corrected typos and mistakes he admitted to once it was published, and left a few grimy thumb prints on the pages. In my opinion all marks of a treasured tome.
But lately, as I battle the stress demons that haunt me at night, its been my salvation. I turn on my reading lamp and open the pages at random. Some nights I get to read the familiar sections on tool choices, (last night I worked my way through the rules for workbenches) Some nights I get to read through an area detailing the chest construction, and some nights I pull open the book all the way into the back and read through what Ive started calling the philosophy and call to war section. After a random period of time has passed the familiar words start to blur and I start to yawn. Ive managed to pack away the stress and my mind is now filled with sugar plum sawdust fairies and Stanley No. 5 candy canes and I drift off to sleep planing the next time I set foot in my shop instead of planning the untimely deaths of the lowly bean counters of the world.
Because Im me, Ive tried to decipher why the book has become so important to me, especially lately. On one hand I think its because its familiar and I know it well. My mind doesnt have to work to process it after Im reading a passage for the umpteenth time, it can just relax and take it in. I have Matthew Bickfords new molding plane book and I found I just had to put it down for now. Its well written and the information is incredible, but I just dont have the neural capacity to assimilate the information right now. I might as well be reading the instructions to set the time on my alarm clock. I will have to circle around back to it, especially after I get my hands on a few hollows and rounds.
The biggest reason I believe Im finding comfort in the book is the theme. There is a flavor of independence and self reliance that hints on every word Chris typed. But its not just independence for yourself, its utilizing your independence to help support and promote the independence of others. Its in the introduction, its in every passage about choosing a tool to last a lifetime, its in the theory of the chest build, and its in the construction details. Those things, those ideals of self reliance and independence are so very important to me, especially at this moment in time when they feel so very out of reach. The Anarchists Tool Chest makes me want to take this moment when Im on the brink of giving in and instead create a mile marker for turning this ship around and righting the course.
And even if you take away the esoteric, the words still remind me that tomorrow, despite everything else, I can still step into the shop and make some plane shavings, and thats something bean counters cant take away from me.
Quite a while ago I managed to catch a comment by Chris on this blog. In a fit a goofiness I slapped a Lost Art Press temporary tattoo on my forehead and posted some pictures of it. Since then I dont know if he ever passes by here on his way around the internet so I dont know if hell ever get my message gratitude. Hell, at this exact moment Im not sure if Ill have the cojones to hit the publish button on this post because its a bit below the skin. I hope someday, maybe a few years from now, Ill have the chance to take a class with Chris and meet him face to face so I can thank him in person for writing a book Ive found so helpful for so many different reasons.
Again, just in case, Thank you Sir!
Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf
P.S. in case you have found yourself trapped in an abandoned mine shaft or trauma induced coma for the last few years and you dont know Chris, his words, and most of his work can be found over at Lost Art Press. If you dont own The Anarchist Tool Chest, what the hell are you waiting for, get over there and buy it. Ive never made that strong of a recommendation of anything in my life before, but I guess I am now.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
20 years of open studio
well also have a claro walnut slab table with the rebar base with six chairs. we are planning to have that all finished friday so that it can be delivered to the guilford, vermont welcome center where it will be on display for the summer months.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
what kind of custom dining tables do you make
someone, i forget who, asked me over the holidays, so what type of furniture do you make most often? my answer was dining tables. a lot of our projects take longer and require a lot more concentration, organization and problem solving, but im fairly confidant if you asked my guys what their favorite type of project was, youd get the same answer. dining tables. one of the reasons may be is the flow of them. you start. not that long later, you finish. they leave. you know people will have good times around them ...next project ...
how many different tables have we made over the last 34 years? more than a hundred for sure. i put this slide show together as much for my own convenience, so i can find a picture of a table that is not on my website when i want it, and also so folks can see the different styles we work in. this is certainly not all of the tables we have made, but it does cover some stylistic ground, from high traditional, to contemporary slabs. click any photo at the link above to start the show, and enjoy your tour. a few of the highlights are directly below.
some have carved details
some are very traditional
some are made from one slab of wood, in this case bubinga
and some have inlays and specific stylistic details ..
anyway, there are many different tables in the slide show, and were always on the lookout for new opportunities to stretch our design legs .. send us your ideas and well have at it ..
ps ... im working on getting links from the photos to the blog posts, but it will probably be a while before i finish that part of the show .. enjoy!
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
a 60 wide slab of claro walnut
well, we got a big one here. its going to aspen when its finished. this is the widest slab of claro walnut we have ever had ... it clocks in at 63" at the wide point ... after we trim it up a bit, it will be about 60" wide at both ends and about 8 long. it will have one of our new trapezoid bases. click the photos to enlarge them....
couple close ups of the rough slab here ... were working on it in my garage as were a little jammed up at the shop at the moment.
couple close ups of the rough slab here ... were working on it in my garage as were a little jammed up at the shop at the moment.
heres the cad drawing
will and trevor wheeled it out to the shade by the woodshed yesterday to begin the flattening process. fire up the makitas ...
will and trevor wheeled it out to the shade by the woodshed yesterday to begin the flattening process. fire up the makitas ...
the slab was astonishingly flat for something so wide ... a tribute to skip and norman at good hope hardwoods and their ability to dry this stuff so we can work it up. its truly amazing. that really is a four foot level there on the right end. the winding sticks are about 45" i think.
time ran out before they could completely smooth the face, but the bottom side is pretty much ready to sand and they should be able to finish this side today ... more later as we progress.
today we finished the rough smoothing of the top of the slab, did some rough sanding and mocked up the base with some 2 x 4s we had from when we picked it up at our friends loading dock.
just like this only in natural finish steel .. all for now
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