Here is an image of my progress to this point on the inlay for my walnut box. I would like to be further along but a different shop project got in the way the last couple weeks and seeing the design is inlaying so well with the technique of using multiple arcs I decided not […]

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As mentioned in a previous post, much of a weekend did end up with me trying to figure out my Celtic design for the box and how to cut this as a string inlay. One thing I did do first was to cut my Baltic birch plywood bottom for the box. I measured (as shown […]

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I purchased some UHMW the other week and one of the things I made was a new rabbeting fence for the tablesaw out of a piece of the plastic. This type of addition to the tablesaw allows you to make more accurate, safer, repeatable rabbet cuts on edges of boards without placing your nice fence […]

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I wanted to make something for myself that was reflective of some of the additional woodworking skills I have acquired over the last year. Storage for odd and ends on my dresser lead me to creating a heirloom wooden box that included elements of inlay, veneering, fine box craft, and as mentioned before a little something else […]

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I am not sure I mentioned but usually between projects I like to do some positive things for the shop so I can improve the environment little bit by little bit. Back in the first part of February I got a sheet of Baltic birch attached to one of my shop walls for clamp and […]

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Well over a year ago I was laid up from serious woodworking so to keep from getting bored I took a very old laptop computer, took it apart, and made a digital picture frame out of it.

Much of the hardware was stripped out of the laptop and the base motherboard was eventually glued to the […]

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