It’s been an eternity since my last posting, but I am going to use this site for sharing pictures of woodworking projects.
At some point I will expand this post possibly to detail the individual projects, but for now i wanted to show these to a few of you. my captions will hopefully give you a rough idea what each picture is depicting.
Amplifier Header Cabinet
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- Finished with rounded edges and corner braces
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- Finished with rounded edges and corner braces
Picture Frame for a Christmas Gift
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- A view of the routed profile of the frame
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- Test miter joints
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- Staining up the frame
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- Frame with Stain
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- Completed Frame
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- Finished Frame with artwork
Wood Burning
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- Climb High Don’t Die! A birthday gift for my uncle, a mountain climber who scaled all the major mountains listed on this board, and more.
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- A chicken I made for my grandmother
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- A flamingo i made for my girlfriend, who is obsessed with flamingos
Router Pantograph and Signs made from it
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- Setup
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- Router Setup as seen with tracing screw on the pattern
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- First letter crved
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- Close up on the Celtic font pattern
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- Close up on the celtic letter carving
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- Sign in its unpainted state
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- Final painted and stained sign
Crankie Moving Puppet Show
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- Corner Joint Clamping scheme
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- Empty frame
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- Completed crank handles
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- Completed cranks– with me for scale
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- Completed with blank screen
Trivets
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- Painted Tile
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- Trivet after gluing (pic of finished with tung oil and polycryilic laquer to come soon!)
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- Cut mitered and rabbeted frame sections of Maple for trivet
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- Rough assemblage of trivet #1
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- Clamping up trivet # 1
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- Twins!
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- Trivets with tiles for a preview
Majora’s Mask replica
Note: this one is still a work in progress and the pics are only half the story. we are working off this instructable:Â http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Majoras-Mask-Replica/?ALLSTEPS
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- three 3/4″ boards laminated together
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- Boards clamping to dry
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- Partial cutout of initial shape
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- Cutout of initial basic shape outline
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- Shaping roughly with a chisel
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- Shaping with high grit sandpaper and orbital sander
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- Shaping with high grit sandpaper and orbital sander
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- Shaping with high grit sandpaper and orbital sander
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- Shaped and sanded wood blank
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- Beginning the first primer coats
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- More painting
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- Painted with primer
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- Routing channels for tubing for facial feature relief
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- Begining to fit the tubing in with epoxy
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- All tubing in and drying
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- Result of the tubing
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- Tubes in with paint
These have been all the wood working projects worth any mention. there’s a few more in the planning stages and I may be gearing up to collaborate on a series of introductory courses.
-M-
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