My Woodworking Projects

Free Picnic Table Plans

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:40:26 PDT

Free Picnic Table Plans: "It is simple to get this set of plans.

1. Enter your email address into the space below and hit submit.

2. You will be sent to the special page where you can get this complete set of plans for free.

Simple as pie. I promise that I will not spam your email with useless junk. About once ever week or ten days however I will send you another set of free plans and will continue to do so until I run out of plans or you get sick of me and unsubscribe.

Remember all these plans are free!
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I found this site that sends you free plans. Its worth a try. I try to make my own plans
and my own designs, I think that that is were all the fun is in seeing your own creations. I quess it's in the doing. Click the link "Free Picnic Table Plans"

Woodworking tips: Getting Started With Used Woodworking Machinery

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:48:48 PDT

Woodworking tips: Getting Started With Used Woodworking Machinery: "Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Getting Started With Used Woodworking Machinery

If you’re looking to set up a woodworking shop, either for personal home use or professionally, you might want to consider used woodworking machinery. This is a great way to break into it without spending thousands of dollars on brand new machinery that you may end up not using very much.

Advantages

There are several advantages to buying used woodworking machinery. First, many people today are strapped with a tight budget. This prevents people from pursuing things that they have always wanted to do. Many people are left only to wonder what might have been. Used woodworking machinery allows you the opportunity to purchase good quality tools at a fraction of what you would pay for them new.

If you are just starting out, it also allows you to fill your shop with more tools than you would be able to if you were buying new. On a tight budget, it would take you a lot longer to fill your shop with brand new machinery. This will, in turn, allow you to complete a wider variety of jobs initially than you would have otherwise.

Finding Used Woodworking Machinery

When buying used woodworking machinery, you don’t have to settle for junk. There are several places you can find good, quality"

Woodworking joints- How to make

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:21:36 PDT

I found a link to an English book on woodworking with illustrations,in html that you can link to,
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21531/21531-h/21531-h.htm) copy the inside of the parentheses and paste it in your browser. Its very informative.

WOODWORK
JOINTS

HOW THEY ARE SET OUT, HOW MADE AND
WHERE USED; WITH FOUR HUNDRED
ILLUSTRATIONS AND INDEX

Enjoy.
Peter Mulieri.

Running A Woodworking Business|Free Woodworking Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:54:59 PDT

Running A Woodworking Business|Free Woodworking Tips: "Running A Woodworking Business

If you want to increase your income and love wood work, then you should maybe about starting a home based business. A person who has good wood working skills can easily start his or her business from home, start small and build a portfolio of your best work.

If you want to make a career in wood working then it is indeed an excellent idea. There are many examples of people who have become rich with the help of woodworking business. If you are really serious then it is just a matter of time to become successful in this business. Wood working business can be regarded as a good source of income. If you love to work with wood then there should not be any problem in starting a woodworking business.

Many have doubled their income by doing woodworking part time. Handcrafted wood is in great demand. If the handcrafted wood has a beautiful design and is of good quality then you can simply ask the price you want from the customer. If you are good at wooden toys then it is indeed a golden opportunity to start a wood working business at home. Children simply love to play with wooden toys. Most wooden products are marketable today.

If you are a skilled worker in making furniture such as cabinets, chair then you should not think twice to start a woodworking business. Cabinets"

Woodworking Project: Art Deco Birdhouse: Getting Started | Quamut: the go to how to

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:04:49 PDT

Woodworking Project: Art Deco Birdhouse: Getting Started | Quamut: the go to how to: "Woodworking Project: Art Deco Birdhouse
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Construct a birdhouse that’s a work of art.

Do birds have sophisticated tastes in houses? Find out by building one with elegant lines and curves that evoke the look of the 1920s and 30s. This project gives you:

* Step-by-step instructions
* Detailed assembly drawings and diagrams

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Getting Started
Despite its complicated appearance, this house is actually quite simple to build. Its clever use of bendable plywood makes its unique roof shape possible. The house also features an easily removable base for routine cleaning and maintenance.

For extra creative fun, paint the house in vibrant colors in keeping with the art deco style.
Skill Level

* Experienced Beginner

Cut List

Description

Quantity

Size

Cut From
Side

2

3⁄4' x 6-1⁄2' x 11'

1 x 8 pine
Free form

2

3⁄4' x 6' x 17'

1 x 8 pine
Base

1

3⁄4' x 6' x 6-3⁄4'"

Basic woodworking tools video

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Remote caddy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:37:42 PST

Tool caddy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:37:42 PST

Toucan Perpetual motion

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:37:42 PST

Toy Frog

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:37:43 PST

Toy chest for Alana

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:37:43 PST

Tic-Tack-Toe Game

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Dice - From 4x4 and 1" dowels

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:19:02 PDT

Club draws girls to woodworking

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:32:53 PST

Club draws girls to woodworking: "Club draws girls to woodworking
Sunday, March 05, 2006
By DIANE LEDERMAN
dlederman@repub.com

AMHERST - In the wood technology classes, a female high school student often finds she's the only girl in a shop full of boys.

So two years ago, the girls decided to form an after-school club.

It was a way 'to get more girls to sign up for any technical program,' said Stewart F. Olson who teaches technology education. Also, he said, creating Women Wood Tech is a way for the girls to work with each other.
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Once a week, they gather in the wood shop, donning goggles, to worth with lathes and table saws, sanders and stain. They work on projects such as wooden bowls, tables, dollhouses and items that they design. 'It has a lot of artistic value,' Olson said.

Even though it is 2006 and women inhabit every aspect of working life from auto manufacturing to zookeeping, wood technology still remains 'traditionally a man's domain,' Olson said.

He thinks in part 'it's a fear factor. They (girls) don't know what they're signing up for. Only the bravest girls in school' give it a try.

He would love to see more involved. That's why he's willing to stay on Friday afternoons 'as long as they want' working in the shop.

Girls don't have to take a woodworking class to join the club, but those who are here all have.

They like the camaraderie of working together and as Elizabeth Rubin, a 17-year-old senior said, 'we're all friends.'

Cassie C. Shaine, a 17-year-old senior from Shutesbury, has been working on a coffee table with a tiger maple top. 'Mr. Olson helps a lot,' she said.

They don't look at the work as difficult.

Before they begin working with wood, they draw out what they want to make so they know what they have to do to get from one place to the next.

'You have to be smart,' said Rubin, measuring and determining calculations and checking it al"

Calling all bench dogs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:18:23 PST

Nashville City Paper: "
By Deanna Larson, dlarson@nashvillecitypaper.com
December 12, 2005

If the man (or woman) in your life could use a panic room to decompress from a stressful job ? or the stresses of the season ? encourage them to try woodworking.

?It?s a way to relax and very solitary, but fun,? said Matthew Teague, a local writer, photographer, furniture maker and former editor of Fine Woodworking magazine who has just written Projects for Your Shop: Building Your Own Workshop Essentials, part of the Getting Started in Woodworking series from The Taunton Press.

?More and more we?re doing less and less with our hands,? Teague said. ?We have a natural need for that kind of creativity.?

Working with wood is a tradition in the Teague family: his grandfather was a cabinetmaker and he learned the woodworking hobby working alongside his father in the backyard. At 13, he was already building simple benches and jelly cabinets ?with pine found at construction sites? that he sold to shops in his hometown in South Carolina.

Teague eventually became an editor at Fine Woodworking magazine, a job that took him around the country learning about fine woodworking and ?traditional old methods? from some of the best woodworkers in America"

Design Intuition? Enhances 3D Woodworking Software

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:05:01 PST

Design Intuition? Enhances 3D Woodworking Software: "
GizmoLab delivers great new features for Design Intuition, driven by customer input.

Boulder Creek, CA (PRWEB) November 29, 2005 -- GizmoLab (http://www.GizmoLab.com/), creator of Design Intuition, listens to customers when developing award-winning software. The result: Design Intuition Version 1.5 has editable 3D blueprints.

Design Intuition is a woodworking design tool for Mac OS X targeting home hobbyists and independent woodworking professionals. The robust software includes a library of customizable plans, materials list, cutting diagram and blueprints -- all without the hefty price tag usually associated with design tools.

'This new version of Design Intuition represents a huge change in the way we present information and how it can be manipulated,' said creator Jonathan Sand, adding that a PC version of the software will be available before Christmas. 'We took our customers' suggestions to heart and made improvements from their perspective.'

GizmoLab has made many other improvements to Design Intuition. 'We've overhauled the entire 3D view,' Sand said. 'We've also reduced the number of mouse clicks by thousands per day, which means less tedium, more focus on design. All-in-all our customers will have greater joy of use.'

Home hobbyists speak highly of Design Intu"

Sun, wind power carpenter's life

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:32:31 PST

Sun, wind power carpenter's life: "Sun, wind power carpenter's life

By ERIC BAKER
Laramie Boomerang
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LARAMIE (AP) -- What causes someone to buy a parcel of land out in the hostile Wyoming countryside and build a house and shop there with no access to the local power grid?

'My goodness, why not?' said Bob McGovern, a lithe carpenter who did just that. 'The land is affordable because there are no public services, and I don't like hiding from the elements.'

McGovern has eight solar panels and a wind turbine that power his every energy need: from heating water for showers to lighting his house and shop to running massive woodworking tools such as table saws. These alternative sources create more than enough energy for himself and his two cats, but they're not for every Daydream Johnny with ideas of self-sustainability.

'If you're living in the city, with easy access to the power grid, in most cases it's going to be cheaper to just connect,' McGovern said. 'You need a minimum of 12 mph average daily wind or you're wasting your time, and you need sun access most of the year to make solar power work. The equipment can be expensive also.'

In McGovern's case, he lives 12 miles west of the city limits on Highway 130, and it would have cost him at least $25,000 for the power company to run poles out to his property. As it stands, he spent about $16,000 for all the equipment he uses now to power his meager needs.

'The average household uses 35 kilowatt hours per day,' McGovern said. 'I use five kilowatt hours per day for a home and a carpentry shop. I don't know what these other people are doing, but if everyone would cut their energy consumption to 12 kilowatt hours per day, we wouldn't have to worry about drilling for oil in Alaska.'

McGovern acknowledged the reason alternative energy works for him is that he doesn't use much power, but not every hous"

First woodworking audio post

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:17:10 PST

Consider through-bolts when buying woodworking connectors

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:17:51 PST

gwinnettdailypost.com: "Consider through-bolts when buying woodworking connectors
11/17/2005

By Morris and James Carey
For AP Weekly Features

When we think of woodworking, we think of either nails or wood screws to connect the pieces. However, in many instances, through-bolts can provide greater strength and stability.
A through-bolt is a bolt that goes all the way through (whatever it is that is being connected) and is held in place with a nut at the other side. A ‘‘sandwich’’ connection.
There is quite a bit to think about when both choosing and using fasteners on a woodworking project.
One of the big problems with fastening any type of wood is the shrinkage that occurs to the wood. A tightly fastened screw can become loose and wobbly in no time as wood dries out and shrinks or deforms. Retightening a screw or lag bolt works most of the time, but securing a connection with a through-bolt always works.
For example: When attaching handrail posts or important safety supports to a newly constructed deck — or any structure for that matter — the overzealous do-it-yourselfer often underestimates the degree of wood shrinkage that can occur and chooses lag bolts to make the connection. Big mistake. When shrinkage occurs, the bolt hole can strip out, often leading to a need for a large lag bolt or screw.
When shrinkage is a possibility — which is almost all the time when the wood is green — then it’s a good practice to use a through-bolt. With a bolt-head and washer on one side and a nut and washer on the other side, tightening things up after a bit of shrinkage has occurred is light work. Granted, use of a through-bolt is not always possible. Sometimes you can’t get to the other side to put a nut on, but that, in our estimation, is the only time that a through-bolt should not be strongly considered. "

Jack-of-all-trades� finds new niche in carpentry

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:40:03 PST

MORE: "By CHRIS MAHON
The Brownsville Herald

November 7, 2005 � Every weekend for more than a decade, Chuy Abete has parked his old blue truck and trailer in the same grassy patch off the eastbound lane of Texas Highway 100.

Like a well-worn path through a forest, Abete�s spot does not have the perfect geometrical shapes of something that is manmade. His space roughly conforms to the size of his truck, trailer, and woodwork, which he sells to people that stop on their way to or from South Padre Island.

On a recent Saturday, he was sitting in the back of his truck with a long piece of grass in his mouth, waiting for passersby to stop and buy a flower basket, a picnic table, or request a custom-made piece.

�For 15 years, I�ve been in this spot right here,� he said, pointing to the matted down grass under his feet.
�I work all week making this stuff from about 8:30 a.m. until whenever the sun goes down. I spend the weekends here,� the carpenter said. �Rather than be idle in my retirement, this is what I do.�

Abete has a Tom Sawyer-like attitude about work. �I don�t have a shop, I work under the shade of a pecan tree.�

Spending so much time alone doesn�t bother him. �I sit and watch the cars go by and people stop and I like to talk to them.�

The 70-year-old has leathery, bronze skin and shortly cropped gray hair, telling of a life spent working under the South Texas sun.

Abete describes himself as a jack-of-all-trades. He has worked as a stevedore, unloading ships at the Port of Brownsville �with the greatest union in the whole world, the ILA (International Longshoremen�s Association).�

He�s been a projectionist at a drive-in theater, a truck driv"

Bench sander

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:38:28 PST

This bench sander is used to course sand my
pieces and then use the hand sander for fine
sanding.

Hand sander

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:09:45 PST

Hand sander

Use this sander a lot to finnish all projects.

Drill Press

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:06:09 PST

Drill press

Your always drilling hole for most projects. Get a drill press
and your hands will be free to hold and maneuver the piece. I also use it
to sand the inside of curves.

Dremel Scroll Saw

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:19:13 PST

Dremel Scroll Saw

Scroll saw I used for many projects

10' bench saw

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:54:42 PST

10' bench saw

I always use this Ryobi bt3000 10' bench saw for all my projects.
Your always cutting boards down to size. Its very accurate and strong.
It all starts here. A very valuable tool.

My Woodworking Projects

Free Picnic Table Plans

Woodworking tips: Getting Started With Used Woodworking Machinery

Woodworking joints- How to make

WOODWORKJOINTS

HOW THEY ARE SET OUT, HOW MADE ANDWHERE USED; WITH FOUR HUNDREDILLUSTRATIONS AND INDEX

Running A Woodworking Business|Free Woodworking Tips

Woodworking Project: Art Deco Birdhouse: Getting Started | Quamut: the go to how to

Basic woodworking tools video

Remote caddy

Tool caddy

Toucan Perpetual motion

Toy Frog

Toy chest for Alana

Tic-Tack-Toe Game

Dice - From 4x4 and 1" dowels

Club draws girls to woodworking

Calling all bench dogs

Design Intuition? Enhances 3D Woodworking Software

Sun, wind power carpenter's life

First woodworking audio post

Consider through-bolts when buying woodworking connectors

Jack-of-all-trades� finds new niche in carpentry

Bench sander

Hand sander

Drill Press

Dremel Scroll Saw

10' bench saw

WOODWORK
JOINTS

HOW THEY ARE SET OUT, HOW MADE AND
WHERE USED; WITH FOUR HUNDRED
ILLUSTRATIONS AND INDEX