The Woodshop Shed

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

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Extreme Block Planes

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Tool: Nx60 Shop Now  and DX60 Shop Now  Manufacturer: Lee Valley MSRP: $209+ These low-angle block planes from Lee Valley are beautiful marriages of fine art and sound engineering. Under each shiny, streamlined exterior lies a very …Source

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Epoxy inlay wall hanging

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Epoxy inlay wall hangingThis is an epoxy/wood inlay vertical wall hanging made for a condo in Hawaii. It's walnut, with all inlays cut by Shaper Origin. Wood (maple) and epoxy inlay combinations, including some double inlays. Added some small, traditional engravings of Polynesian spear points and shark teeth symbols to the top and bottom of the piece. A half inch cove cut all the way along the side edges for some depth, but it doesn't show much in the images. Finished with Odie's oil.



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Ship's wheel cup rack and challenge coin display

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Ship's wheel cup rack and challenge coin displayA friend picked up a ship's wheel at a yard sale and gifted it to me. This will be one of the items I've made to donate for a fund raising auction at my upcoming ship reunion.



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Protect Your Chisel and Gouge Edges With Heat Shrink Tubing

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While most newly-purchased chisels are supplied together with their integral guard, any vintage tool, mortise chisels, corner chisels, and all gouges do not come with such protection. A few years ago I wrote about a technique to protect the edges …Source

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Inlay Wall Hanging project

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Inlay Wall Hanging projectThis is an epoxy inlay project for a wall hanging piece I made. Cherry, Walnut strips and Maple stripes make up the panel.The inlay pockets were cut with a Shaper Origin, than back filled with various colors of epoxy. Sanded up to 320g to get the epoxy to show well, then I back sanded the wood as well as I could to 220g.Danish oil to add some depth. I used the cherry tinted oil on the Cherry wood and Natural color oil on the Maple and Walnut.Then shellac, then several coats of lacquer and hand buffed.



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