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Ebony chopping board: cutting the groove | Guitar building by hand
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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Ebony chopping board: cutting the groove. March 1, 2015. Before starting the groove I used a marking gauge to traced out the edge of the channel and marked the outside corners by tracing around a coin:. The marked out the channel on the board. I used a carving gouge to cut out most of the channel:. Using the scraper to smooth out the channel. Next I rounded off the edges of the board slightly it was done! March 1, 2015.
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Keepsake box: the hinges | Guitar building by hand
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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Keepsake box: the hinges. January 18, 2015. A whole blog post about hinges? I eventually got them from had a ‘cheap’ and ‘expensive’ variety. I settled for the more expensive ones. They were a lot better: they opened and closed much more smoothly and had a nicer finish. After a bit of fiddling I got the lid to fit (more or less) seamlessly onto the box. It was a lot of work, but I think it was well worth the extra effort.
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Lost your hearing and balance? Try woodworking! | Guitar building by hand
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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Lost your hearing and balance? October 4, 2013. This blog is about how woodworking has helped me through a personal experience). 8216; which can be accompanied by the loss of the balance organ in the affected ear, and so it was with me. Everything had just stopped working. In many cases (such as mine) the cause remains unknown. Some other projects: a wooden spoon, a magazine storage box and a lampshade. I’m still going...
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Assembling the ebony chopping board | Guitar building by hand
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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Assembling the ebony chopping board. February 26, 2015. I changed tactics and decided to use the machines in our shared workshop. I used a planer (on a very fine setting) and thicknesser to get the blanks flat and square. This went a lot quicker with better results. Since I hadn’t used the machines much until now, I also got to understand them a lot better. Test run before glue up. Glueing up the board. February 26, 2015.
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Keepsake box: dovetailing and glueing | Guitar building by hand
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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Keepsake box: dovetailing and glueing. November 27, 2014. Glueing up the box was tricky. I didn’t heed the six P’s. Sufficiently. I forgot to check my box was square before glueing! I only remembered this after the clamps were on for a couple of minutes. This meant doing a lot of fiddling while the glue was setting. Another lesson learned. Glueing up the box: you can never have too many clamps! November 27, 2014. Notify me o...
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Pennsylvania Spice Cabinet – Part II | Wing-Nut Workshop
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Pennsylvania Spice Cabinet – Part II. Posted by WingNut Workshop. On February 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment. The first, and one of the most important things was the layout. I based my shelf spacing off the plan from the PopWoodworking article, but adjusted slightly since my cabinet is about 1″ taller. Next, I chiseled out the end of the dado to make room for the toe of the saw. After laying out all the dados for the shelves, it was on to the dividers. Again layout is critical. In this case it’s...Enter your ...
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Intro to Blogging | Wing-Nut Workshop
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Posted by WingNut Workshop. On January 17, 2012 · 1 Comment. So why am I starting a blog? Well…by nature I like to learn and what’s even better is when I can teach others the things I’ve learned along my journey. Hopefully this blog will achieve both. Now in all likelihood, you won’t learn anything new or mind-blowing here, and if you do than I must have really screwed something up! So what’s with the name? So thanks for taking time to check this out and please feel free to comment or ask questions.
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Pennsylvania Spice Cabinet Part III: Bracket Feet and Moulding | Wing-Nut Workshop
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Pennsylvania Spice Cabinet Part III: Bracket Feet and Moulding. Posted by WingNut Workshop. On February 28, 2012 · 3 Comments. All my previous projects, I had something to go off of, but this was my baby to screw up. I sure do wish Matt Bickford would come out with his moulding book already so I had more to go on…oh well. Anyway, on Twitter advice from the Renaissance WW, I just went for it. We’ll see how it goes…. But I was amazed I even did this right.). This process is the same for all four feet….
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Being one with the wood: bending the sides | Guitar building by hand
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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Being one with the wood: bending the sides. May 27, 2014. Since I got my new workshop. After finishing the headstock, I continued on the sides. These were planed to thickness. A while ago but needed to be bent. I used a bending iron. I didn’t take any pictures whilst bending, but here’s a picture of the result:. Rosewood side bent and clamped to shape. For more information: if you haven’t bent wood before, and don̵...
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Pennsylvania Spice Cabinet – Part I | Wing-Nut Workshop
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Pennsylvania Spice Cabinet – Part I. Posted by WingNut Workshop. On January 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment. Let me start this post by saying, if anyone has a cure for Woodworking A-D-D, let me know. This project, nor the inlay tools I’ll need later in the build, were not even on my radar. But I had alot of fun making mouldings for the Tea Caddy. And when I saw Megan Fitzpatrick’s Spice Box I suddenly had the urge to make it right away. Oh well…. I made these with a skew rabbet plane and it only took about 5 ...
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