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Senin, 21 Maret 2016

Woodchat is Yours

This is a very quick post via the Blog This extension for Chrome, but please check out Matts list of #woodchat topics and be sure to vote. Last Wednesdays re-introduction of #woodchat brought both new and old participants together for a lively discussion. This weeks #woodchat is looking to be even more.
Upper Cut Woodworks Woodchat is Yours: Vote on the Woodchat List of Topics for Woodchat Wednesday Upper Cut Woodworks:
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Selasa, 08 Maret 2016

Help The MWA Be Heard

If you’ve had a chance to listen to the 37th episode of the of the ModernWoodworkers Association podcast, recorded live at Fine Woodworking Live 2013, you know the sound quality was a so much better than the recording we did at Woodworking in America 2012. That poor quality recording can be listened to in our Woodworking in America 2012 episode if you’d like to compare.
 
Were aiming to sound as good as Matt.
The difference was due to the quality recording rig Ed and the Fine Woodworking editors use. After they recorded an episode of ShopTalk Live, they were kind enough to allow us to borrow their equipment for our recording.
Now that we know what a mobile recording should sound like, we don’t want to go back to the low quality of our past mobile recording. That’s why we’re asking for your help.
We want to put together a good mobile recording rig before Woodworking in America 2013.
While the equipment we need isn’t too expensive, it is a few hundred dollars. As we have so far funded all of the costs associated with the MWA ourselves, and need to pay our choice to Cincinnati for WIA by the same deadline, we’re hoping that you, our readers and listeners, can help us pay of the recording rig. We promise it will mean more and much better sounding content from us.
To give, please click on the donate button on the upper right of the MWA website. We’ll put all the money we receive into the MWA to pay of the new recording equipment and cover other costs associated with better recordings.
We’ll thank everyone who does donate on the air in an upcoming podcast and we’ll extra thank you if you help spread this request and get others to donate too.
Thank you. We appreciate the support and that you read and listen to our posts. We couldn’t be the Modern Woodworkers Association without you.
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Rabu, 02 Maret 2016

The Return Of woodchat

Once upon a time, woodworkers gathered on Twitter to chat about woodworking. It was usually driven by a topic, with lots of great participation and sharing of ideas. It was really good. But then it stopped, and we miss it. For some, their path to becoming a better woodworker took a detour. Its time to get things back on track.
Woodchats Future
After a lot of conversations in the last three weeks with Dale Osowski (Timberworks Studio), Dyami Plotke (Penultimate Workshop), Matt Gradwohl (UpperCut Woodworks), Vic Hubbard (Tumblewood Creations), and Tom Iovino (Toms Workbench), we will berestarting #woodchat this Wednesday November 2nd at 6pm pacific time, thats 8 central and 9 eastern. Weve got permission from the former woodchat crew and have been working behind the scenes to ensure to define how wed like this to work best for everyone.
Lets make #woodchat like a dinner conversation among woodworking friends.
Our First Four Woodchat Principles
1. Easy for People to Get Involved
There are lots of woodworkers already on twitter, and its easy to sign up, so continuing to use the #woodchat hashtag makes things very easy. No special download, no separate account. So well start on twitter but may incorporate other technology as things progress. Right now, Tweetchat is the easiest choice to participate.
2. Approachable for All Skill Levels
If youre a beginner woodworker, you will be welcomed in and find people ready to help and encourage you. If youre a skilled woodworker, youll also find encouragement and help, and be asked to share your experience and knowledge by welcoming and being helpful to new woodworkers.
3. Focused on Actual Woodworking
In the past #woodchat drifted off topic at times. Well focus on woodworking: inspiration, design, stock prep, joinery, finishing, tool selection, shop safety, or shop layout, for the beginner, part time hobbiest or full time woodworking business. No preference towards power tools or hand tools.
4. A Team to Make it Successful
To make sure that chats happen on Wednesdays without one person carrying the workload, were going to work together to ensure success. We all have busy schedules with our day jobs and families, but with five (or more) people committed to making this successful Im sure well establish a regular rhythm.
Woodchat is Yours
Ultimately though, woodchat is ultimately driven by those who participate, so we need to know what topics youd like to discuss, what technology you might suggest that we incorporate, what days and times work best. Let us know on Twitter or leave a comment below. See you all Wednesday night.
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Jumat, 26 Februari 2016

Peter Get Woodworking


Thanks to Tom Iovino, its Get Woodworking Week. Its a week when we in the online woodworking world and the regular woodworking world look to help others enter the craft. While many of my compatriots are writing fantastic posts about what tools to purchase, how to use the tools, what projects to begin with and how to do joinery, I thought I would offer a different take. I wanted to show just how easy it is to get someone into woodworking. Hopefully many others will fall prey to woodworking as easily as Pete has.
My friend Pete and I went to college together. We’ve got many shared interests and a lifetime of shared experiences. Up until recently, woodworking was not one of them.
L to R: Me, Shots & Pete. Circa 1998. Shots is a cop now. Pete and I are not.
Since I’ve been blogging and ranting on and on about how wonderful woodworking is, Pete has been one of the few, non-woodworking friends to show an interest. He’s actually been looking to come visit and go over some woodworking for quite some time. We were finally able to make it happen over this passed Christmas break.
As woodworking was one of many topics we hoped to cover during his brief afternoon with us, we choose to take on a very simple project I had pending and work on it from start to finish so that Pete could see the whole thing.The project was the construction of a simple shelf to hold the cable box and DVD player in my room. By simple, I mean simple. It only consisted of cutting a flat board to size, rounding the edges and sanding. I doubt any of us would even call this woodworking.
Yet, for Pete, it was a revelation on many levels.
Peter, rounding the edge.
On one hand, like most non-woodworkers, he’d never stopped to consider the steps involved in making something from wood, even something this simple. When we reviewed how using a simple ?” round-over bit in a trim router to address the edges would make the whole shelf much warmer and touch friendly, it was a eureka moment. Pete instantly understood why it was so beneficial to the project yet without this brief woodworking class it would never have occurred to him.
Sand old women. Sand like the wind.
On the other hand, Pete reveled in the hands-on work. Even tasks as mundane as running a random orbit sander over a flat surface were rewarding because their results could instantly be felt and appreciated.
The completed shelf, in all its basic, functional glory.
While spending a few hours in my shop, making a simple utilitarian shelf hasn’t made Pete a woodworking expert by any means, even small projects like this are important when shared with others. By choosing such a simple project, and working on it from start to finish, Pete partook in the most important part of woodworking, the creation of a piece from a block of wood.  He caught the bug. The actual methodology, the skills to make complex pieces on his own, that will come with time. First he needed the desire and that has been firmly planted.
A happy new woodworker!
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Jumat, 12 Februari 2016

Its Too Funny To Apologize For

Woodworking in America is almost upon us (have you remembered to book your flight and hotel yet?). In there continues evangelism of the event, the editorial staff have crafted this wonderful spoof video. It was first brought to my attention with this tweet.
Not only is it amusing, its also a great woodworking event placement test. If you watch ans say "Huh?". Then youre safe not attending.
If you watch and break out into laughter so loud others in the room look at you and then after youve explained whats so funny they say "Huh?", then you need to go to Woodworking in America.
By the choice, +Charles Bender had me in stitches.
Dont forget about the +Modern Woodworkers Association Podcast. We talk woodworking with Guests from around the world of woodworking every other week. Subscribe to the RSS feed or iTunes today.
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I Got My Design On On Woodchat

The boys at Woodchat have been rocking their Telephone Game Design Experiment for a few weeks now. They were nice enough to invite me to participate.
Over the next few posts Ill discuss my design and how I arrived on it. In the mean time, check out last weeks Woodchat for our discussion of the design and the overall Telephone Game Design Experiment.
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Kamis, 11 Februari 2016

A House In The Trees Part XVI

Two days into a three day weekend and Im making progress. The decking is now well underchoice.
Dont forget about the +Modern Woodworkers Association Podcast. We talk woodworking with guests from around the world of woodworking every other week. Subscribe to the RSS feed or iTunes today.
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Selasa, 09 Februari 2016

The Woodchat Telephone Game Part I The Game

Chris, Matt and Scott, the three (3) woodworking super nerds who run +Woodchat,  the weekly woodworking discussion on Twitter and Google+ are currently in the middle of their telephone design game. In the words of +Chris Wong:
You know what the Telephone Game is, right?  One person starts by whispering a phrase into the next person’s ear and that person whispers what they heard to the next person and this continues down the line.  By the time the phrase passes through all the players, it is totally different. 
Wouldn’t it be fun to try something like that with furniture design?
They decided to find out.
Since May 29th they have been passing the design from participant to participant with each one having a week to make their changes to the previous design. I was lucky enough to be invited to participate and foolish enough to accept.
I tried to follow the structure of a Telephone Game and I only focused on the previous version (+Megan Fitzpatrick’s) when I was making my design. It proved to be a challenging and enjoyable process.
My Telephone Design Game design.
I’ll elaborate on how I came upon the design I did in a separate post. In the meantime, be sure to follow along every Wednesday at 10:00 Eastern to see that week’s contestant share and discuss his or her design. If you’re up to it, you can even sign up to participate. You’ll have fun if you do.
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Senin, 08 Februari 2016

The Greenwich Frame Part III Plugging Away

Following the sanding, I moved on to the part I was most leary of: the ebony plugs. Just getting the ebony had proven an issue. I had taken too long ordering it from Bell Forrest, and through no fault of theirs I wasnt set to receive it until two days after I needed it. Forced to find it locally, I turned to woodfinder.com and found Exotic Woods USA in Northport, about 20 minutes from my house. A quick call and trip up there resulted in 3 nice ebony pen blanks. Using the technique shown in Kelly Duntons recent Fine Working article the narrow ebony sticks proved easy to cut. I then used Marcs pillowing technique. By pillowing, cutting and repeating I was easily able to make 10 (1 test, 8 real & 1 spare) little ebony plugs.
Pillowed plugs, ready for action.
Luckily, I had ordered my Veritas square hole punch in time. Following the simple included directions it proved quick & easy to make 8 simple shallow square plug mortises. The key is to square the hole punch before making the hole, so that you’re plugs will sit square to your stock. Since on of each pair of the shallow mortises ran into a Domino mortise, I dry fit Dominos to provide a backing and prevent blow-out that could have later prevent the Domino from fitting.
Achieving perfect, square holes was quite simple with the Veritas Square Hole Punch
You can fit square holes over round pilot holes.
No that the rails and stiles were ready, I proceeded to glue-up. With only 4 Domino joints, glue up proved very easy and only required two parallel clamps and an empty bench. I ended with a bit more glue sqeeze out than I would have liked, and there is a wisp of light visible between the edge of one rail and the connecting stile, but as the glue cleaned up easily and the light disappears once the matting was installed in the frame I’ll call it a successful glue up.
A fairly stress free glue up.
The final pieces to be assembled were the ebony plugs. To install them I pared the sides of each plug slightly so they would fit in the mortises and applied a small amount of Tightbond III glue into the mortises. Then I fit in the plugs and drove each down with a wooden mallet. Since I made each plug and mortise by eye, they’re slightly even, but probably not enough for any one to notice.
The Walnut becomes even richer in tone during the finishing process.
For finish I used blond shellac. I applied 6 coats of a 1 lb cut. Rather than go through the work of mixing my own shellac flakes (I could be missing something here, but that seems choice too much like work) I instead used Kenneth’s fantastic Woodshop Widget to determine how much I should dilute some Zinnser shellac to get to a 1 lb cut. I applied the shellac with a rag and sanded it with synthetic steel wool before and after the final coat.See the frame take shapeThe Greenwich Frame, Part I: DesignThe Greenwich Frame, Part II: Fabrication Begins
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Kamis, 04 Februari 2016

Woodchat Telephone Design Game Part II The Design

The Woodchat Telephone Design Game works like any telephone game. Each participant takes something from the previous participate, make intentional or unintentional changes and then passes it along to the next participant. Instead of using silly phrases, +Woodchat is using a furniture design.
The design started with this piece by +Chris Wong of Flair Woodworks.
Chris Wongs Telephone Design Game Design.
The design version before mine (design version #6) was by +Megan Fitzpatrick. This was her design.
Megan Fitzpatricks Telephone Design Game Design.
I really liked the center, lowered section of what I’ll call the desk surface (though to be true to the Telephone Design Game guidelines, it should only be called furniture). I felt this really complimented the curved legs and the cloud lifted stretchers.
My least favorite part of the previous design was the hard edge along the outside of the desk surface. I felt that the juxtaposition of this hard edge against the soft curves of the lowered center and stretchers left the piece unsettled. The outside edge was the first design component I changed.
Wanting to tie curves of the desk surface, legs and stretchers together, I eliminated the hard outside edge and instead worked to sculpted the top surface around and into the legs. I felt this brought a more harmonious composition to the design.
I carried that curve down the leg, following the same splay which was in the previous design. At the bottom of the legs I felt the cloud lifted stretchers tied in nicely. At the top the stretchers seemed awkward and unnecessary against my new curved and flared leg to top joint. I removed the top stretchers.
Next, I tried to flair the vertical ornamentation which ran between the stretchers in the previous design. I tried this a few times, and each time the flared transition into the stretcher was big and awkward. I finally decided to eliminate the the vertical ornamentation and leave the desk in what I felt was a cleaner state. Sometimes the absence of material is just as important to a design as the presence of material.
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