The Woodshop Shed

Outdoor Finishing

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When I was a kid, my dad made a pair of Adirondack chairs that sat out front of the old farmhouse I grew up in. Looking back, they added a quaintness to the house. They were attractive pieces, but in …Source

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Burmese Lidded Bowl

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This lidded bowl was an adventure and had quite a few lessons for me.
It started out as a great piece of spalted ash. I was really focused on the form and the raised band with the grooves. I was very pleased with the form and I had a dovetail recess cut in the bottom that I used to hold the piece in the jaws of my lathe chuck. The spalting had weakened that part of the bowl and it broke the recess. I reverse mounted the bowl between a jamb chuck and live center and cut the recess again, that changed the geometry of the bowl. It broke again.My solution was to epoxy a piece of ash onto the bottom. This let me reshape the bowl back to the original geometry that I really liked. It is the same ash I used on the lid. I used some new techniques to turn the new bottom and lid. Also this bowl had a few voids that I filled with two tones of mica and epoxy. The finial (also new to me) is from mesquite. I used many new techniques and was glad to salvage the piece. It ended up being a series of very spontaneous solutions.The finish is a couple of sealcoats of shellac sanded to 320#. That was followed by two coats of amber shellac that I burnished into the piece. I used Howard's Feed and Wax applied and buffed out for the final part of the finish.I would normally not try to salvage a piece like this but the spalted ash is beautiful and I really wanted to try out a few methods of chucking up elements of the bowl. I was able to use double sided tape to adhere the lid and the bottom to a wooden faceplate to cut them round and make the recess for the chuck.I had a really good time and I'm relatively happy with this Frankenstein Monstered lidded bowl.
As usual, questions and comments welcome.

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A Small but Mighty Handle for Augur Bits

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One of the most exciting new tools that my students and I got to try and use this year was the 6 Piece Bushcraft Survival Auger Kit with T-Handle and 5 Auger Bits in Tool Roll from WoodOwl. The new …Source

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Pocket Hole Porchlight

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If you've perused my projects, you're already aware that my daughter and I built a tiny house together. This is an illustration of a part for that house. Now every house needs a porch so that precludes that every porch needs a porch light. The inspiration for this comes from the 16 stave buckets that I made when I was attempting (sometimes successfully) to expand my joinery skills. With the added use of my pocket hole jig, an underwater LED light a unique fixture came forth.

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Japanese Plaster Hawks

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I need a plaster hawk for a workshop I'll be attending in the fall. I have all the other required tools. So I thought Surely I can make one! I did an online search to get dimensions. That's when I found a site to DIY a Japanese version. That'll do perfectly (says the woman who has never used ANY kind of plaster hawkthat I recall. If I did it was a few decades ago)!
I gathered up the materials (cough/scraps/cough) and made two. You may notice an extra set of holes in one. That's for flipping the handle for a lefty. Countersunk screws only, no glue.
The SurePly that I used is floor underlayment but not technically luan that the DIY article specified. I'm not sure how long it will hold up. I thought about covering it with some aluminum flashing that I have.
Let me know if you have any experience with this kind of tool. Do you like it better than the stick-in-a-square-board version?

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