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Minggu, 03 April 2016

And With This It Begins

The date and location for Woodworking in America 2013 has been set. For anyone who didn’t know:

Psst: Mark your calendars for Oct 18-20, 2013. Thats all for now.— megan fitzpatrick (@1snugthejoiner) January 3, 2013

The date was first teased on Twitter and confirmed on the Popular Woodworking Editor’s Blog the following day. It will be October 18th through 20th at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky (Greater Cincinnati). This is the same venue as WIA10, WIA11 and WIA12 MidWest. I’ve been to them all, and it’s a great venue with nearby hotels, a $1.00 trolley and a Hofbruahaus. I’ve alchoices had a good time there and I’m sure you will too.

WIA 2012 MidWest: We came, we saw, we posed on Megans bench.

I’m not such a fan of the piecemeal approach to announcements that has been used for WIA lately (if there’s a date and venue, I’d like a ticket), but at least we can all block out our calendars now.

I’ll see you in Kentucky.

p.s. - There’s a White Castle.

Im at White Castle!

MWA Woodworking in America 2012 Midwest Photo Sharing Event

Selasa, 29 Maret 2016

Tour Steppingstone Museum with Wade

+Shannon Rogers, the Renaissance Woodworker and proprietor of the Hand Tool School, volunteers in a pretty cool 19th century woodworking shop at the Steppingstone Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland (in Susquehanna State Park).The Steppingstone Museums mandate from its founder is to document and preserve the latter half of the 1800s. Their woodworking shop exemplifies this preservation. Though the shop mixes trades (jointer, turner, etc.) that would not have shared space at the time, the period correct tools and knowledge of the docents are amazing.When I stopped by the Steppingstone Museum last August I was lucky enough to receive a full tour of the wood shop from Wade, the senior volunteer. This video is the tour Wade gave me. Its a bit long for an internet video, but the working knowledge and experience Wade brings to the tour is well worth it.

For more on the Steppingstone Museum you can check out their website at steppingstonemuseum.org or reach out to Shannon. I know theyre alchoices looking for volunteers.

Rabu, 17 Februari 2016

The Greenwich Frame Part II Fabrication Begins

Construction began by mocking up the frame with some peg board scraps I had. Once I was satisfied with the dimensions, I milled the walnut. Luckily, I had success with a new jointing technique and didn’t turn any of my walnut into wedges while I was milling the the frame.
A holy version of my frame.
After quickly cutting the four, rectangular frame pieces to size, I used my new Woodpecker spacer blocks to relatively dimension the table saw fence and blade location. I then quickly cut the rabbets in the rails using two passes on a standard table saw combination blade. For the stopped rabbets on the stiles, I first marked the rail locations so that I would know where to stop. I then milled the stile rabbets using a router and a bearing guided rabbeting bit.
I made the rabbets in the stiles a little extra long. By going long, I didnt have to square them off.
Once the rabbets were completed, I broke out the trusted Domino and milled my joinery. I again used my Woodpecker spacer blocks and referenced all the Dominos using the integral alignment pins and relative dimensioning.
Everything is made better with relative dimensioning.
Once dominoed, it was time to mill the cloud lift in the upper rail. To do this I made a very simple jig that held the workpiece and Marc’s templete and allowed me to bring the piece to a bearing guided flush trim bit in the router table. I didn’t initally clamp the templete tight enough and it drifted, but I was able to simple enlarge the cloud lift sightly, re-clamp and carry on. It was only a slight enlargement and no one but you (dear reader) is the wiser.
My quickie cloud lift fabrication setup.
With the rails and stiles now completely cut and shaped, I broke out my new DeWalt DWP611PK and put an ?” roundover on all the exposed frame edges.
When the shaping was finally over, I sanded the parts. This was a simple matter of hitting their faces with 80, 150 & 180 grit paper on a random orbit sander and using corresponding grit sanding sponges on the edges and round overs.

Next up, plugging the frame.

The Greenwich Frame, Part I: Design

Selasa, 16 Februari 2016

And The Teasing Begins

The Woodworking In America 2013 website has just gone live. You can check out all the details here. Unfortunately, you cannot get tickets just yet. Those are promised later this month.
In the mean time, its well worth checking out the site to see speakers, review the classes and begin drooling over the marketplace vendors. As youre reviewing the classes and building your itinerary, keep Saturday afternoon/evening open. Youll be sure to enjoy the Online Woodworking Roundtable. My fellow Modern Woodworkers Chris Adkins and Tom Iovino will be among the distinguished panelists (making the panel just slightly less distinguished).

You can see more about WIA 2013 in this years promo video.

Minggu, 07 Februari 2016

Shop Renovation Phase 1 Video 2

As the shop renovation continues and the childrens spring activities ramp up, its been hard to find time to sit down at the computer and answer proper email, let alone write an actual blog entry. Luckily, Ive discovered that the built in video editing software in Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) makes putting together a simple video like this pretty easy.
Here I am, describing the process of adding the jam extensions to the miter saw wall recess. This entire video was shot, edited and shared in the shop (on my phone).