Armin
Reged: May 20 2002
Posts: 352
Loc: Michigan's upper peninsula
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Some of my early work, this was my first attempt at working with figured wood, what an eye opener.
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www.northernsunwoodworks.com
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StanFoster
Reged: Apr 30 2002
Posts: 87
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Armin: If that is your first attempt...please post your last attempt...ok? Mighty nice work
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Pro_Dek
Reged: May 01 2002
Posts: 533
Loc: Seattle
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Very nice Armin- how do you make those cool feet?I've seen the design before but always wondered how they do that?
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Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
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Recko
Reged: May 13 2002
Posts: 24
Loc: MA
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Pro-Dek,
Actually, those feet are very simple to make. (I made some for a couple of bookcases I made.) Here's how:
1) clamp a straightedge to your TS @ 45 degrees
2) Lower the balde below the table height
3) Raise it a smidgen (about 1/8")
4) Run you blank thru the TS. This creates the cove.
5) Raise the blade in 1/8" increments until you've got the "depth" of the cove you want.
6) Flip the piece end for end and lower blade to nothing
7) Raise the blade in 1/8" increments and run the top side of the "foot" until you;ve got the curve that u want.
8) Sand/scrape the mutha until it's baby-ass smoothe.
FWW had an article on this about 3 years ago. It's the one where the gut build the table to hold the laptop on the cover and one of the topics is "3 bookcases: 3 levels of difficulty" by Phil Lowe.)
Here's my interpretation of Phil's "most difficult" bookcase
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Armin
Reged: May 20 2002
Posts: 352
Loc: Michigan's upper peninsula
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Recko, Yup, dats one way to do it. I used a similar process except I use a moulding head fitted with a 1 inch dia cove cutter. I traced the outline of the profile on the end of the plank and started making shallow cuts, raising the cutter and moveing the fence until I had the cove roughed in. The round over was milled using a large round over bit in the shaper. The rest was hand sanding to finish the profile. The corners were mitered, splined and glued. That was then, now I use a profile knife in the W&H moulder.
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Recko
Reged: May 13 2002
Posts: 24
Loc: MA
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Armin,
W&H moulder, eh???
Some guys got all the luck (and tools!).....
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Sgian_Dubh
Reged: Apr 29 2002
Posts: 22
Loc: Great Britain
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Nice work Armin. I can't build stairs like that, that I know of. Never tried though, ha, ha. Slainte, RJ.
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www.richardjonesfurniture.com
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Armin
Reged: May 20 2002
Posts: 352
Loc: Michigan's upper peninsula
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Thanks Sgain, Do I detect a hint of arid British humor?
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Sgian_Dubh
Reged: Apr 29 2002
Posts: 22
Loc: Great Britain
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-----,desert like,-----after a drought. Slainte, RJ.
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MikeSmith
Reged: Apr 29 2002
Posts: 971
Loc: Rhode Island
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doug.. just found this.. did you ever get your table inserts for your saw ?
still finagling a worktrip to Duhammel's ?
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Recko
Reged: May 13 2002
Posts: 24
Loc: MA
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Mike,
I'm borrowing my fathers tap & die set and will re-tap the hole to fit the screw.
Re:DuHamel's...I'm still thinking about it but won't know for sure for a few weeks.
You springing for my ticket??
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MikeSmith
Reged: Apr 29 2002
Posts: 971
Loc: Rhode Island
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har, har .... as usual u yust kill me..
how's your garden doing with the drought ?
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Recko
Reged: May 13 2002
Posts: 24
Loc: MA
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What garden???
Actually, we did get a sh-tload of zucchini and yellow squash early on. Now the acorn squash is coming in, but not as prolific as the other squashes, due to the drought. Cukes started to come in early on, but have tapered off recently.
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