Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Jan 3rd, 2008
My edging on the 12-way was completed last weekend and over the New Year holiday. I started out as mentioned with some strips of white oak cut down to 1 1/2 inch wide by 6 inch long and 3/4 inch thick. The ends were mitered to 15 degrees and then butt glued in pairs which […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Dec 26th, 2007
Once again with the holidays I was not able to accomplish much in the shop, but I did complete my Dremel tool jig and cut a 1/8″ groove in my 12-way match to add the inlay. The jig worked well and is nicer then the first one. The one issue I ran into is with […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Dec 10th, 2007
Besides getting ready for Christmas I found myself working on my 12-way match with hopes to have it at least pressed so I could take it to the Des Moines Woodworkers meeting this week.
I had the 12-way taped up from the weekend before, but I still needed to cut it into a ~10 inch circle. […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Dec 4th, 2007
Class wrapped up last night, it started out with business as usual and each of us discussing experiences, issues, and their projects.
Bill talked about some new club videos on veneering and the techniques used to vacuum press curved surfaces. We went to his shop for a demonstration in which he veneered some curved surfaces. The […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Dec 3rd, 2007
You gain more respect when looking at woodworking pieces for what it takes to make it when you do projects like a 12-way veneer match. I got a good start on my project this weekend and suddenly realized just how much work it is, how many things can go wrong, and how a little difference […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Nov 28th, 2007
Well the second to last class meeting was on the night of November 26, it turns out that it was not the last class as Bill wants to keep us on task with our 12-way matches and decided to have one more class. Helps because then we have an easy place to discuss issues and […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Nov 26th, 2007
The weekend of the 17th and 18th of November I really did not get much done in my shop, between trying to move and save data off an old dieing PC with a bad hard drive over to a new iMac along with issues in the shop with the heater one can easily see why. […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Nov 26th, 2007
I was going to post my class experiences last week but I was in the middle of the holidays and making my switch from a PC to a iMac at home, which is actually going quite well.
Well this class was on November 19th and it seemed shorter, once again we started out discussing our experiences […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Nov 13th, 2007
The class meeting yesterday started out with each of us presenting our work and issues we had, glad to see I was not the only one having problems and not getting as far along as would like. Glad I had ordered a new vacuum press as it sound like having a good press setup helps […]
Posted in Veneer Class Fall 2007, Shop Log Book on Nov 12th, 2007
Well not my most productive weekend to this point performing veneering, at least related to the class homework. I tried to start adding border to my match on Saturday, only to discover the very straight grainy veneer I was going to use was too brittle and needed softening. This set me back till Sunday and […]