The Woodshop Shed

adventures in woodworking and home maintenance, from my shop in an oversized backyard shed

June 2016
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
     
   


May Kits: Get em While Theyre Well-priced!

Furnished content.


collectionsWe’ve some “kits” left over from May collections of items on like subjects offered together at an attractive price (and we typically put together only 50 to 100 of each collection…so get ’em while you can)! First up, the “Mid-Century Furniture Collection,” with the book “Mid-Century Modern Furniture: Shop Drawings & Techniques for Making 29 Projects,” and the DVDs “Step-by-Step Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table” and “Building Techniques for Mid-Century […]The post May ‘Kits:’ Get ’em While They’re Well-priced! appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Read more here


posted at: 12:07am on 02-Jun-2016
path: /Woodworking | permalink | edit (requires password)

Comments:
0 comments, click here to add the first



Crackle Lacquer

Furnished content.


Crackle LacquerA friend called me the other day with a question. He was matching a crackle-lacquer finish from the 1980s and wanted to know how this finish is made and how to apply it. Crackle lacquer is lacquer with so much solid material, usually silica, added that there isnt enough binder (lacquer) remaining to glue all the solid particles together. The result is that the lacquer cracks when it dries and […]The post Crackle Lacquer appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Read more here


posted at: 12:07am on 02-Jun-2016
path: /Woodworking | permalink | edit (requires password)

Comments:
0 comments, click here to add the first



Build a Pocket-Hole Jig Picture Frame

Furnished content.


Pocket-Hole-Jig-FrameA few weeks ago, I was asked to builda frame for a 36 x 40 map of northern Kentucky. I had some leftover maple and decided to build the frame quickly with a pocket-hole jig. It may not be the most sought afterjoint, and some woodworkers may turn their noses at pocket holes, but it can be an extremely useful joint and can be hidden behind the frame. Ripping& Rabbets […]The post Build a Pocket-Hole Jig Picture Frame appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Read more here


posted at: 12:07am on 02-Jun-2016
path: /Woodworking | permalink | edit (requires password)

Comments:
0 comments, click here to add the first



June 2016
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
     
   


Promoted by Feed Shark





RSS (site)  RSS (path)

ATOM (site)  ATOM (path)

Categories
 - blog home

 - Announcements  (0)
 - Annoyances  (0)
 - For_Sale  (0)
 - Home_and_Garden  (1)
 - Humor  (0)
 - Industry_News  (0)
 - Massachusetts_USA  (0)
     - Swansea  (0)
 - Notices  (0)
 - Observations  (0)
 - Oddities  (0)
 - Privacy  (1)
 - Reading  (0)
     - Books  (0)
     - Ebooks  (0)
     - Magazines  (0)
     - Online_Articles  (0)
 - Reviews  (1)
 - Rhode_Island_USA  (0)
     - Providence  (0)
 - Shop  (0)
     - Planes  (1)
 - Shop_Improvements  (2)
 - Woodworking  (6888)
     - Calculator  (1)
     - Projects  (2)
     - Resources  (3)
     - Techniques  (179)
     - Tips  (0)
     - Videos  (7)


Archives
 -2024  May  (2)
 -2024  April  (9)
 -2024  March  (14)
 -2024  February  (15)
 -2024  January  (22)
 -2022  October  (2)
 -2022  September  (86)
 -2022  August  (116)
 -2022  July  (112)
 -2022  June  (117)
 -2022  May  (122)
 -2022  April  (128)
 -2022  March  (140)
 -2022  February  (122)


My Sites

 - Millennium3Publishing.com

 - SponsorWorks.net

 - ListBug.com

 - TextEx.net

 - FindAdsHere.com

 - VisitLater.com