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to lubricate them until after i apply finish so i suspect it will turn more freely in use this windmill would be great if i lived on the coast but i d like to come up with one that would turn in a light wind it needs to be lighter and the blades can be thinner by half wider blades would be better because they have more lift but i like the look of the thin blades i did some research and it appears that the 35 degree pitch isn t right because the blades stall in light wind surprising to me at least is that scientific research shows an angle more like 5 degrees to be optimal the latter presents a whopping 22 more frontal area to the wind this creates a construction issue because the adjacent slots won t clear so some new way of making the hub is necessary a 4 bladed windmill wouldn t have this problem but i like the look of 8 blades i have an idea although this is starting to feel like my stool saga in my defense i did end up with a unique design that works very well posted by andy at 10 25 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 7 2018 stickley sideboard part 5 when i put the stickley sideboard aside last spring the carcase was done and i only had the drawers left to make with the arrival of fall it was time to get back at it as i wrote in the last post the drawers went well and it was time for finish i made this for my son and his wife and they prefer dark stains they re not my cup of tea but the original was dark so i didn t object dark stains are tough because they show every imperfection and tend not to absorb evenly at least that s my experience pre stain conditioner is recommended but i like the color differences that result from not using it so i didn t here s the result building this piece only increased my respect for stickley and ellis there are many small details that i didn t appreciate until i realized how they contribute to both form and function posted by andy at 6 37 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels stickley sideboard friday november 2 2018 trombones and dovetails when i was in high school i was a very good trombonist but not a great one i had plenty of talent and a good instrument but i didn t practice consistently take the summer off and it feels like starting all over in the fall i have this same problem with dovetails i don t cut dovetails often enough that i retain muscle memory and top of mind feel for what i am doing and i find it very annoying to spend time practicing every time i want to i was facing exactly that issue as i prepared to make the drawers for the stickley sideboard by coincidence youtube recommended a video to me about a new dovetail guide it looked intriguing and is only 35 so i decided to give it a try when it arrived i decided to cut a quick practice joint to get a feel for it and to my surprise it came out great this is straight off the saw and as close to a 5 minute dovetail as i ll ever get the guide is made from urethane like skateboard wheels etc and has two embedded magnets on each side there is one side for tails two for pins and one for right angle cuts it is extremely fast to cut dovetails this way because all you do is mark the baseline and add some tick marks on the top for the layout as you can see it is translucent and that helps to position it accurately the cuts for the half pins were dead on with no trimming at all one thing that is a bit unusual is that unless you are ambidextrous you end up cutting tails from both sides of the board but that didn t end up being a problem i tried it with both western and japanese saws and found the former much better the magnets are strong enough that my japanese saw wouldn t work without applying downward pressure on the handle so is it a good idea to use a guide certainly if you are a beginner it is i m not but i still found it very useful for two reasons it s very fast for those of us who would otherwise mark out the pins and tails second if you haven t cut dovetails in a while it is a very good way to re establish muscle memory and remember those little things that make a difference i found myself sawing with a very light touch if you are cutting a lot of dovetails i think you could use this for awhile and then cut the rest by hand i am not bothered by using a guide and i think i will keep using it the guide doesn t work for half blind pins but i still found it useful for making the drawers because you can cut out the tails very quickly and precisely and of course you can use it for the dovetails on the rear of the drawer they came out well i know that using guides is frowned upon by some and i respect their position but i don t feel that way a plane is a guided blade a shooting board is a guide posted by andy at 10 47 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 22 2018 portable workbench v 2 0 after we finished building out the cargo trailer as a camping trailer i had one day before we were to leave on our field trial and i knew i wanted to do some woodworking dissatisfied with the portable workbench i made last year i wanted to come up with an improved version for a larger portable bench there is no doubt in my mind that the moravian workbench is the way to go my failed attempt of last year helped me to better appreciate what a truly great design it is watch this brief video of will myers assembling it in 60 seconds very stable too amazing not something i could make in a day though and somewhat larger than i had in mind i had just one day to build something compact that could be clamped to a picnic table this isn t as farfetched as it may sound you may remember chris schwarz s milkman s workbench from a few years ago although it isn t tall enough and i didn t want any vises on mine most picnic tables are 30 high i like to work at 36 so i had in mind something about 6 tall and around 16 x36 standing at my nicholson workbench thinking about this it struck me that a scaled down version of it without legs would fill the bill nicely i had some dry 2x6s on hand so that s what i made as you can see it fastens to the picnic table with c clamps although there a variety of ways to clamp it down with the clock ticking i wondered what to do about a vise i knew that i wanted a moxon to sit on top just as i use at home but i wanted a considerably smaller version i had an old one that used f clamps sitting on the shelf so the first thing i did was cut it down to 16 i didn t want to use f clamps but looking around the shop i had a brainstorm possibly because i had seen it somewhere before but i can t remember i picked up a wooden handscrew sawed the screws in half in the middle where the threads change direction then cut the jaw on either side of the barrel nuts these became the twin screws for my vise using the barrel nuts allows the jaws to skew and it was very fast to construct it works much better than i expected though it does only accommodate workpieces up to 6 4 and it is 12 between the screws but that s enough for a portable vise in my opinion of course it can be used directly on the picnic table if i choose but i generally like to use it on top of the bench so i can stand straight when i saw i didn t have a lot of time left and i still had to figure out what to do about tool storage so i salvaged the drawer from the previous version of the portable workbench and used some scrap pieces of plywood from the trailer project to make a case for it the three pieces stow away for travel in a compact space all in all it works quite well and i m not sure i could have done a lot better in one day posted by andy at 7 02 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 19 2018 fall is in the air my summer hiatus was longer than usual this year for a variety of reasons the primary reason is that i took on a major woodworking project that i didn t think would be of interest here specifically we purchased a cargo trailer and built it out as a camping trailer complete with a queen size bed a throne room and lots of storage surprisingly it turned out better than expected i was making it up as i went along and has attracted a lot of interest there are a fair number of baby boomers who like us camped in tents for years but are ready to expend a little less effort and be a little more comfortable without going into a full fledged rv i have been reading the blogs from the unplugged website regularly and commenting sometimes to me it appears that woodworking blogs are in decline as there are many fewer posts than i used to read many of those that remain are commercial that s too bad as i really enjoy reading about what other amateur woodworkers are doing of course i am in no position to complain as i haven t been posting either my pageviews had been trending down and i wasn t getting a lot of comments which along with being preoccupied with other pursuits were factors finally i just didn t feel like i had a lot to share that would be of interest i m ready to get back at it during our camping trips i watched a lot of woodworking videos on youtube and noticed that a video attracts astronomically more views than a blog of comparable quality does it s probably a sign of the times people get their information these days from watching video rather than reading in some cases i think there is a good reason for that i have picked up valuable tips from watching these videos that the author doesn t even mention i just notice something they do and think it s a good idea most times though it just seems like there is a much bigger audience for video than written material dunno i don t want to make videos so i am going to stick with blogging and i hope you do too i think we can encourage each other by commenting but there is one issue i d like to highlight my personal information has been compromised so many times by large corporations that i just won t give it out unless i absolutely have to some blogs require you to share personal information like email addresses in order to make a comment and i just won t do that i have no idea if other people feel as i do i don t ask for any personal information in order to comment on my blog comments are moderated so i can read them before they are published mainly to filter out all the crude advertisements that bots post once i finished the trailer i turned my attention to woodworking while camping it is so pleasant to sit along the ocean or up in the mountains and work away that it is one of the main things i look forward to the portable workbench i made turned out to be unsuitable a cumbersome attempt to combine a workbench and tool storage i am totally convinced by ok guy that a moravian portable workbench is the best solution it is a fantastic design but i just don t have the space for it in a small cargo trailer so i went back to the drawing board small size is possible because i will always have a stout picnic table available when i use it so it doesn t have to have legs and can get necessary mass from the picnic table standing in my workshop pondering this the answer was right in front of my eyes i wanted to build a nicholson portable workbench i ll show it to you in my next post posted by andy at 6 48 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 30 2018 stickley sideboard part 4 with spring weather finally having arrived work on the sideboard has slowed to a snail s pace there are just too many things to do outside i have however made some progress the drawer s are supported by what chris schwarz calls a web frame it s made of a secondary wood poplar in my case pine in his it is glued to the front stretcher and rests on cleats along the sides there is a gap along the back to allow for seasonal wood movement recall that the grain on the sides is vertical an unusual drawer divider is fastened to the front of the frame and the bottom of the top front stretcher removed in this picture it is also fastened to the rear stretcher the grain is vertical so it will move with the sides this is new to me and i will be interested to see how it turns out but in principle it seems like a good idea the carcase is just about done all i have to do is put in the bottom shelf and attach the top while i was working on this the offcut from the curved front stretcher caught my eye the original has a rectangular backsplash but this just looks so good to me i am seriously considering it the rectangle is just boring i m torn because i really want to stick close to the original stickley design i wonder what harvey ellis would say posted by andy at 6 25 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels stickley sideboard tuesday april 17 2018 stickley sideboard carcase glued up the carcase is glued up so you can now see some of the construction details that are interesting the only major hiccup was that i cut the curve in the front stretcher upside down the reason is quite complex when a board has an arrow on it pointing up and you turn it over it points down in this case i got lucky and it still fit i deviated from the plans in a major respect they call for the legs to be 2 1 4 by 1 3 4 the wider dimension to the sides this is because the outside of the legs are supposed to taper to 2 at the top and to 1 5 8 at the bottom i don t like the idea of a 1 4 taper on the top at all and i decided not to do it i also don t see why the bottom has to be that wide therefore i decided to make my legs 2 square and taper the bottom to 1 1 4 a slightly more pronounced taper on the bottom this is a matter of taste and i like my choice as i mentioned previously the sides are somewhat unusual in that the grain is vertical therefore parallel to the legs and flush to their insides simply glued in place they are flush to the inside so the drawers can slide against them this has a lot of advantages as the top and sides will move together as i wrote before i am not that concerned that the stretcher is perpendicular because as you can see there is plenty of room between the sides and stretcher for the legs to flex before the top can be put in place the support structure for the drawers has to be put in place the plans call for a web frame something new to me basically a rectangular figure eight attached to the carcase the drawers run on it and it supports a center divider the center divider is screwed to the top stretcher as well to make things easier the top dovetailed stretcher isn t installed until the web frame and the divider are in place posted by andy at 9 29 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels stickley sideboard older posts home subscribe to posts atom topics beginning woodworking 4 desk 8 fdr chair 15 kitchen work table 4 nicholson workbench 30 planes 2 portable bench and toolbox 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