David Richards has a new post over at www.finewoodworking.com about drawing dovetails using a new plug in for Sketch-up.
Sketch Up shows me how dovetails would have looked like in the Dedicated Sharpening Bench.
Sitting here sipping my morning coffee and wondering what the hell happened to Brodeur last night in a painfull to watch game against the US, I was reading through my morning news and stumbled on a new post at fine woodworking.com.
I don’t yet use Sketch-up to design my work but I do hope to find some time this year to get more comfortable with the program. With so many great plug-ins and tutorials available, I really have no excuses other than the time to do it. This new plug-in for drawing dovetails sounded like an interesting post and to my surprise when I clicked on the link, the article used my sharpening bench as the example! How cool is that?
So if you’re a Sketch-up user and would like to check out this new plug-in demonstrated or if you’re planning on building your own version of my sharpening bench design, then this may help with some insight to some of the joinery involved. The irony is that I was originally planning on using dovetails for the drawer construction but due to my time line I decided to simplify the construction at the last minute and use rabbets. Now I can see how they would have looked and it makes me wonder if David has the entire bench available as a Sketch-up model?
I’ll have to ask…cheers!
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If I didn’t live in the U.S. I would live in Canada…I think it’s a great country! I miss the days when true amateurs played for the U.S. It just isn’t the same.
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Brodeur wasn’t stellar, that’s for sure, but he did save the Canadian team in game 2 and, frankly, Hiller was just too strong (backed further by a defense that was willing to block a lot of shots).
Thanks for the headsup on the dovetail extensions. Will have to check it out.
Having drawn a few lines in Sketch-up myself I’m impressed with the program and all that is and will be made available for it. I’m far from being an experienced user due to the lack of practising time but I did get a feel for it almost instantly when I tried it out.
Scribbling something down while working along keeps being the faster way though
I can imagine that seeing your own design futured makes you feel proud…and you should be, it’s a nice design and very nice well documented build.
On a number of occassions, the SketchUp guys at FWW have helped me get comfortable with the program. It is quite complex and can at times be frustrating as you learn it, but it is a powerful tool, very useful for woodworking, and it is free.