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Kieran,

Bring the jig and anything else you like to Maccas Coorparoo tomorrow (Saturday) ... it will give the woodworking brains trust something to do instead of supersizing ourselves.

IanR

Backyarder,

1) Only buy bits as you need them. If you start a project that needs say 3 bits that you don't already have ... then go out and buy those 3 bits then.

2) Where bits are...

270mm wide is pretty wide (deep) - this is good .... your books will be at the back of the shelf. Wider shelves look classier than shelves that are only just the same width (depth) as the books.
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Made an outdoor deck out of Kwila about 6 years ago, thought it looked OK so I picked out some better pieces and used them to make a stool and some other little things. The finished piece polished...

Just got back (actually, a couple of weeks ago) from a trip to far north Qld during which I called in to Tolga Woodworks located just north of Atherton. When SWMBO and I are travelling we go from...

Thanks, Scooter,

I'll check them out.

Ian R.

I bought a Triton 2000 about 6 years ago to help make a fence and decking on my (then) newly-built house. A great tool for this type of work! Then I started making some simple furniture with it and...

Oh yes,

And the other difficulty ... clamping the timber to the template from the underneath side. OK if the curve is a table top - just make the template wide enough so the clamps don't foul the...

Tom,

Yes ... at the time of my post I was thinking of a table-mounted router with the bearing following the curve on the template. The benefit of this technique is that it is easy to clamp the...

Hey Tom ....

I make templates to make templates. And then I only use each one once, mostly! (It is boring making 20 of a thing!)

But I would be interested in one thing you might be able to...

Forget brass screws. Get brass coated steel screws. Don't trust any screw with a straight slotted head because they clearly weren't designed to be screwed in by a powered screwdriver.

Another...

Maybe the bow is too much, and maybe you will have to plane it flat.

But you must try something first. Get a damp/wet towel or two. Put the glued-up panel on top of the towels, concave side...

I've never seen these at Bunnings, but then again, each time I go to Bunnings things get harder and harder to find, and the staff less and less helpful - at least for out-of-the-ordinary things like...

Timber Cost:
The timber for the table will be costly. But can I suggest that you save some money and DON'T buy wide boards. Buy narrower, quarter-sawn boards. Wide boards will invariably be plain...

Alan,

I agree with Rocker. Unlike with making a table, for example, the effort to make chairs, compared to the cost of the timber, is huge. So it is false economy to skimp on the timber for...

Hey ... great work Leigh!

Now everyone else's "offcuts" also look good, but hey, these ARE NOT offcuts!

Any more ideas like Leigh's would be greatly appreciated. (i.e. small things - make 20...

Dan,

I go every year or two and propose to go up again this Saturday a.m. Last year I thought it was good value because at the time I was looking for someone with a portable mill and there were...

EMistral wrote:



I'm sorry to disappoint you, but cutting nice wide boards in half might soon be something that you choose to do to get stable flat surfaces like table tops. Nice wide boards...

Answer: Build a template for everything. Then:

1) when u get it wrong, its only the template that's stuffed up, not your prize piece of Brazilian Mahogany.

2) even if you stuff up the...

Ben,

1: Yes
2: Jet 15" thicknesser, Woodman 6" Jointer
3: I've used combination machines and I wouldn't hesitate to buy one for a one-man shop but probably wouldn't do so if you have more...

I highly recommend Andy Rae's book "Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture and Cabinet Construction" published by Taunton Press. here

This book sets out design dimensions for all common types of...

I agree with DaveinOz. Assuming the grain and colour can be nicely matched, the issue is the straightness of the join.

If I was doing this job, I'd run the boards together through the...

Hi Emistral,

You wrote ...
"Of course it is their job and I don't expect to reach such level of "perfection" but if I could minimize the visual effect, I would be happy "

I don't claim to be...

Here are some pics of the chair/stool I made. It is fairly tall, but the (laminated) legs are only 28mm square so for such a "fine" design all the joints have to be pretty good. I used the...

At the risk of being ostracised, I declare ownership of a Multi-router and I am not a professional woodworker. Woodworkers who enjoy producing precision work should consider it if you can afford it....

Alex,

This is a task that requires serious consideration. Declaration: I'm an enginer originally and I take a particular challenge in doing some of the things described below so if you don't have...

Trevor,

In my quest to avoid metal hinges in wooden boxes, about 18 months ago I made a few boxes with pivot hinges similar to the model aircraft hinges. I got a few ideas from the book "Making...

Thanks everyone ...

The Titebond Extend seems to be the glue designed for the type of application. The specs from the web site say 15 minutes assembly time after glue application. I'm not sure...

DaveinOz:

I use PVA for just about everything. I don't use Clag for anything anymore - but you've given your age away. I remember using it in primary school in the 1950's! Can you still buy...

Arron ...

Thanks for these ideas. I hadn't got to the point of trying the masking tape but had considered it - I'll try them on my current project which is a style of box that has small (1/8...

I'm making some joints in hardwood that will take quite along time to assemble. PVA (which would be great in all other respects) will start to go off. The project involves some finger joints that...

Rocker ...

So I guess you don't need any help in working out those compound angles now, eh? Just when I was about to grab my calculator.

When I was browsing around the trade-in section of...

Arron,

I have been using Titebond Polyurethane glue which seems to be very similar to the AV515. Easy to use - you only need to apply to one surface, and there is no ambiguity that it covers the...

I have a small shooting board made by Micheal Connor Woodwork upon which he has his brand punched in. At the wood show in Brisbane a couple of years ago I asked him where he got his punch, and it...

Jig with router. Note the fence on the left with a series of shims (only one shown). These shims have to be made very carefully - each one wider than the other by twice the width of the cut. ...

Close up of 16mm dowel clamping 3 work pieces at once.

Here is the main jig to cut the finger-joints using mu Festo plunge router.

It is made of 32mm MDF that has a laminex (?) top, elevated above benck level about 80mm (3 inches), and clamped over...

Photo of hinges ....

The one on the left is Beefwood.
In the Centre is Myrtle (I think)
The two on the right are Jarrah.
The pins are bamboo toothpicks, not glued.

I cut about 70 hinges in...

I finished a batch of hinges last weekend ... see photo. I'll also post a few other photos of the jigs I made with description.

Timber: I had good success with Jarrah, Beefwood, and (I think)...

A query on those quick-grip clamps. I have a few but when people ask me about them I used to say "that they are good enough to hold the work for just long enough for you to get a real clamp on the...

Don

A good piece of work .... right now I wish I had something like this because I am making some wooden hinges and I need precision in drilling the holes. (I've jury-rigged a positioning block,...

Antiqueman,

Last year I had two logs of beefwood milled by Gary Bochow who is based in Connondale using his portable Lucas mill. Connondale is between Maleny and Kenilworth. Both logs had been...

Steve,

I'm looking through some old threads and noticed this one of yours.

I used to own a Jet 13" moulder/thicknesser (I subsequently traded it in for a 15" thicknesser). I never used it for...

Thanks for comments, everyone.

Woodborer - I can see now the logic in dovetailing and not gluing your hinges - because you are across the grain for the full width/height of the box on both the...

Robert,

Tassie Oak is quite good to work. I just finished making a pair of bedside tables, and I'm quite pleased at the good finish. Bunnings or just about any timber supplier will obtain it for...

rhook ....

Sounds like you are in a similar position to me when I took up woodworking again about 5 years ago after a 30 year break during which I had 100% of my time tied up on other things like...

I am about to start making some wooden boxes, and would like to use wooden hinges.

Plans: I have downloaded some plans from Gifkins Dovetail. The plans look pretty comprehensive although the...

You're out of my league with this. There is a steambending discussion at:

http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Steambending.html

or if you go to their search area:
...

oops .... next time I'll post a smaller image

I don't have any pics of the Steinway factory. Here is a pic of the silver ash chair [assuming it works .... I havn't posted any pics before]. The blackwood chair looks a little better than the...