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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Dining Table: Trestle Structure

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The support trestle is all made out of old Douglas Fir framing lumber that came out of our house, which was built in 1911.  Roof rafters wer...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Choosing a water heater

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Like everything else in the world, picking a new water heater requires an unreasonable amount of research and nail biting.  Here's a tas...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Dining Table: Battens and Breadboard Ends

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The two parts of this table that keep the top flat are breadboard ends and the two battens that also form the top of the trestles.  First I ...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

How to use Dividers

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Dividers were a mystery to me for a while, but they are a low-tech, elegant way to accomplish very accurate work.  I love stuff like that.  ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Dining Table Design and Top

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Well, I got the top glued up, finally.  I sliced the base of my thumb up pretty good while disassembling a handplane, so there was a week of...

El Cheapo Dining Table

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I'm making us a new dining table, out of Douglas Fir.  I started with 2 x 10 framing lumber from Home Depot...  I found a couple in my o...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Panoramic Head - prototype

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A friend recently sent me a link to a panoramic photo of Mars, stitched together from a bunch of images from the Curiosity rover that lande...
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