At a recent Kiama Woodcraft Group meeting, John Daniel demonstrated the preparation, sharpening and use of various types of card scrapers and cabinet scrapers.
Here’s Graham having a go…
John also shared this excerpt from one of John Walton’s woodworking textbooks, once ubiquitous in Australian high school workshops. This section describes how to sharpen and use scraping tools.
A good friend of mine, Juan, is from Argentina, and loves doing big Argentinian-style barbecues (“asado”) in his backyard. He asked me where he might be able to get a large wooden serving board – somewhere around 800mm x 400mm. As you can imagine, boards that size don’t come cheap!
So I told him I’d see what I could do for him.
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A friend gave me a nice small log of wattle after cutting a tree down, and I was keen to have a go at milling it.
Continue reading “Milling Timber On The Table Saw”
At Kiama Woodcraft Group’s July meeting, David Bywater gave a detailed demonstration of his finishing process for boxes and other small items.
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A few months back a tree was cut down in Cambridge Park, Sydney and needed to be cut up into manageable lengths as it was just left as felled. The tree was next door to a friend’s mother’s home and needed to be cleared. The friend had a chain-saw so cut it up into manageable lengths and sealed the ends with Bond Crete, and, consequently, as it had great colour, how could one refuse the offer of a few lengths.
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“How do you get rid of rust?” Well, I’d like to have a dollar for every time I’ve been asked that question, however my usual answer is, “what are you de-rusting?”.
Continue reading “De-Rusting Using A Battery Charger”
Lessons learned from my first time building a whisky cabinet from reclaimed timber and veneered MDF.
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When last in the Old Fire Station Gallery a young fellow overheard me agree to make a chess pawn for a customer; well there was little I could do but agree to make a couple more for him, after all, he asked so politely.
Continue reading “Out of the Shed – A Little Challenge”