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Complementing the above message, a cousin who lived in China for many years brought many antique furniture, and I see more panels running across the length of top, and this way is more ease to glue...

Spokeshave

I apply glue, of course on the frame miters and their splines, and between each board of the panel (and their splines), but don't use glue between the panel rabbet and the frame groove....

Spokeshave, if you look has a space between the panel and the frame, for seasonal movements. This construction is common in Chinese traditional table tops.

Gestalt, I think about 65 hours to...

Freijó is a nice wood to work, easy with hand tools. The front of two bigger bottom drawers are a little harder and darker, probably is from another tree or even a variety. Brazil is so rich in...

This is my last serious woodworking project. A chest of drawers that I named Sakura.

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The wood is know...

I do a little of everything, joinery like tenons, rip cuts, curved cuts, but I think that what I do more is resawing. My woodshop stay in small farm ( www.woodworkforums.com/f175/hello-brazil-154565/...

bosox

The brand of this bandsaw is Acerbi. The Acerbi industry does not exist anymore. I am not sure about the age, but if a had to make a supposition, I would say around 35 years of old. Older...

Recently, I make a vídeo for a brazilian woodworking forum. Is about bandsaw, a very basic video about basic adjustments, some safety rules, and so. A basic video for those don´t have experience with...

Old-Biker-UK
In the list has the "cabiuna" common name. I am thinking that is Dalbergia for sure.
Your location, Somerset, remembers me a couple of books that I read, from Bernard Cornwell, very...

Woodid


I saw your post only now. My doubt is because here has a wood that they know as "jacaranda da bahia", that I think is the classic rosewood; and a wood know as "jacaranda cabiuna" or...

Bill, I do not think about that, BRW is out of question then. Even because I have so little pieces of this lumber. I am not entilery sure if it is Dalbergia nigra, here I know it as Jacaranda...

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Recently I made a carver´s mallet to a friend. He told me to post some mallet like this to sell in e-bay. I don´t know how much to ask for the mallet.


The mallet is this:...

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After some resolved health problems I resumed my woodworking projects. My chisels needed a dedicated box, especially because I travel a lot with them from my house to farmstead.
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Peter, if the distance from here to there were not so great :o , it would be a pleasure to make a table for your bonsai. :2tsup:

I finished the table with about 5-6 coats of tung oil. It is not...

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Proceeding with the table making. I have marked and chopped the mortises in the top to fit the feet tenons, using first a...

I have a couple of friends who asked me to make some bonsai tables. I did make two tables for tests but I wanted to make a better table, with chinese inspirations. In the link below is a bonsai table...

I visited this forum many times coming from google searches. And now that I am subscribed I'm seeing that here is a really nice and friendly place. :2tsup:

Artme, although I do not work in this, I...

In english has so many instructional woodworking videos, but in portuguese has no videos. So I try to do some videos for my woodworking community here in Brazil.

If I If I can keep an activity...

Thanks! The photos were taken with my friend's camera, that is a good and much more professional than my camera. The joints are that I think that will make the furniture durable, when I use wood I...

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Then I saw the excess with a ryoba, using something to not mark the wood, and trim with a chisel.
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This is my last big project, a aquarium cabinet that I made for a friend. It is a 200 L tank, with 100 x 40 x 50 cm (L x W x H). The cabinet is already finished, but I have some WIP pictures.
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You can do a good job on the table saw using a crosscut sled made especially for mitered crosscuts. Using a stop block you can do repeated cuts with the same length. Maybe it is not a simple way...

Recently I made a box for three mallets that i made to a friend from an online woodworking community here in Brazil. I am posting a few photos from the box. The box has angled sides with hand cut...

A friend that lives near the Bahia state (Brazil) found a fallen tree of Jacarandá and sent me a piece. I am posting photos for you see the wood.

Although I am a biologist, I can not say the...

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I am from Brazil and work with sales, but in my spare time I like to do woodworking for me and sometimes for a friend, only amateur woodworking. I live in Mato Grosso do Sul, a state...

I can read english very well, but to write I still need to write with a translator, to see if my grammar is correct rather than to translate. And well, write here is a good excuse to improve my...

I am an amateur woodworking from Brazil and this is my first post here.

I see that here has many post about japanese hand tools and I have a few question about japanese chisels. In Brazil is...