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bricolage in an oakland workshop

Monday, September 6, 2010

Ecco!

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Joining the top

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I saved all Saturday just for the mortises. Four inches deep, 2" wide or thereabouts. Ouch. So I wimped out and got my trusty hand dril...

trestle part 2

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I had planned on using draw bored pegs to provide the tension necessary to hold the long stretchers in place when building the trestle. How...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

trestle part 1

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Well, OK then! Now that the legs are cut to length, time to put the stretchers together. I'm making the stretchers out of, GET THIS, rec...
Monday, August 23, 2010

sorting out the legs

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Here's how the legs will be spaced, overall height will be about 33" tall so that I can get over the bench planes when working the ...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

face vice install

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time to get this twinscrew vice in place. Most designs i've seen have tabs cantilevered off of the bottom of the benchtop which accept ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

flattening the bottom of the top

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Yup, spent an evening after work beavering away at the bottom surface of the top now that the glue's reasonably dry. You want this sort...
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