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Some Carving Forms...
by James D. Thompson
These pieces were given
to me by a local turner who thought they were not worth
finishing because they warped during drying, and had some
cracks.
I repaired all the damages, then added some
enhancements.
Bedding
Hardware
by Bob Smalser
 I believe repair and restoration work to be the best
training for woodworkers, regardless of what you are
making out of wood. You get to see which practices work,
which don’t, and which won’t over the long haul.
Besides
learning which joinery lasts and which doesn’t, fixing
other peoples’ poor practices helps in preventing your
own and usually puts the future repairability of your
own work high on your priority list where it belongs. Sorry folks, but if your work isn’t easily repairable,
you are merely doing expensive preparation and storage
of fuel for the next generation’s marshmallow roast.
Master
woodworker
Sam
Maloof,
a
major
figure
in
the
California
modern
arts
movement,
died
Thursday
evening,
May
22,
2009
at
his
Rancho
Cucamonga
home.
He
was
93.
Origin of Mouldings
by
Joseph Hemingway, UK
In the millennia that man
has been harvesting timber, the use of mechanical power
to shape wood is a relatively recent occurrence. Before
the advent of the electric router, the shaper, or even
the moulding plane, how were mouldings produced?
One of the earliest
devices is also the simplest. Known as the
scratchbox, this four-sided fixture holds the workpiece
in place while a worker repeatedly passes a scraper
profile, indexed to the sides of the box, over the
workpiece to produce the desired shape.
Turning on a Circular Saw by Diego de Assis
Besides
straight, transversal or parallel cuts, the stationary Circular
Saw can also turn pieces like disks and pegs. It all depends on
how to conduct the making to obtain these effects by using tools
created at the workshop called fixtures or jigs.
Fixtures or jigs
are tools that accommodate certain templates of cut, designed
for specific machine.
1885 -
Workshop Receipts
by C. G. Warnford Lock
There still remained a
number of subjects of equal utility and of every-day
application, connected with Handicrafts and Mechanical
trades, coming within the scope of all intelligent
persons, and certainly not less interesting than the
contents of previous volumes.
These have been gathered
into the Present (Fourth) Series. While each Series
possesses its own special value, the utility of the four
volumes has been completed by furnishing the fourth with
a General Index to the whole set.
Walnut Bed Tables
by Mark Singer
I finished the
tables of solid walnut.
The case drawer and
base are all from solid wood. The boards were laid up and
mitered to allow the grain to be continuous. The design
emphasizes its function.
The base is heavier
8/4 to visually support the drawer case which is lighter and more
delicate. They are linked by stainless rods which still
maintain the clarity of the two parts. It is almost like a
couple, a man and woman, the man is the stronger the woman the for
delicate and more secretive (drawer closed).
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