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Wow! No posts here since January. I have been keeping busy though. Recently I have been considering going back and exploring one of my old interests. It's doing hand wood carving. There is a little bit mentioned here in The Ramblin' Dan's Workshop in 2013 . I bought a lot of instructional books back...
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The wood working that I do is very basic stuff. I am limited somewhat by my handicaps and tools. My weakest area is wood sizing in thickness.. I don’t have a jointer or planer. I could hand plane but I am not well equipped there either. So I work with mostly manufactured dimensional lumber. The prob...
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Click to enlargeThe V-carved sewing boxes are ready for staining and finishing. Two of them is twice the work but I am already experienced when I start to work on number two. Here all the sanding is complete and the hinges are installed and tested. Construction is actually complete. The boxes ...
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At long last it is a bearable 85 degrees in the workshop. That's 22 degrees cooler than it was two days ago on Friday. It was 15 degrees cooler than Friday yesterday. Friday was a record 107 real temperature, not that "feels like" cr@p weather people usually feed us. Ha! I just finished an involved ...
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A coworker in my office cut down an old pecan tree on his property. There are lots of them around in this part of the country so pecan is not an endangered species. A lot of Texans like to use the wood for smoking barbeque as it imparts a nice flavor. Pecan is a first cousin species to hickor...
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