James Krenov wooden plane
Curly maple table top- when I designed this piece I originally thought about using three large maple planks, flat sawn and about a days work to finish. Quick n’ easy with a pleasant enough look it would only be three boards to work after all….
Hey everyone, sorry the posts have been a little sparse these days but I’m plugging away at my projects and haven’t found too much time for writing. I just received an email from Macel in Denmark; he’s in the process of building his own version…
Back to the shellac attack, I let the freshly mixed shellac sit for about 30 hours. When ever I walked past it over that 30 hour period I gave it a little shake to upset the flakes sitting on the bottom of the containers.
While working with solid cherry wood as well as a quality veneer cherry plywood for the carcass of my current project, I wanted to use a natural finish that would not only bring the two wood types closer together aesthetically but also compliment the piece as a whole.
Every week I get an email or two from people asking me where they can purchase Made by Hand-Furniture Projects from the Unplugged Woodshop other than here on my web site. Not everyone enjoys or trusts using Pay-pal and would rather
David Richards has a new post over at www.finewoodworking.com about drawing dovetails using a new plug in for Sketch-up. Sitting here sipping my morning coffee and wondering what the hell happened to…
Well it’s been another busy week but I wanted to share a few pics around the shop.
As mentioned in the last post, the dining room has become the assembly area and my trestle table a make shift workbench.
Back down stairs on the regular workbench I’m…
Dining Room?
“Hey Hon- what’s for diner ?”
‘Plywood sandwiches’ crosses my mind but my throat doesn’t summon the words. It’s a surreal feeling working through the big build these past two weeks- from paper to plywood…
In my last post I showed you how I apply a solid wood edge treatment to plywood panels. This is something I don’t do very much of and in a perfect world I’d be using solid materials in every project but sometimes design can dictate the materials needed and…
Working with plywood is an altogether different animal than with solid wood. Given the choice, I’d prefer solid wood but sometimes solid wood isn’t the best option. When I worked in the Set Design Industry we worked with plywood almost exclusively- these past few years however, in my…