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Comment on Standing Laptop Desk – Finished by Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:48:48 +0000

Looks great. Nice proportions too and the finish appears baby smooth. Kudos to you for having the patience to apply 15 coats of shellac! Now about all those exposed cords distracting from your beautiful furniture…

Comment on Guitar Finished by Donna Thompson

Donna Thompson — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:30:00 +0000

Looks Great, and the sounds sounds good to if you take the size and quality of the speakers on my laptop into consideration I look forward to meeting it in person

Comment on Guitar Building – Last Class by Lisa C.

Lisa C. — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:15:33 +0000

It’s beautiful, Glenn.

My spouse is keen to take a guitar making class. He would like to build an electric. I’m slowly collecting tools for our workshop. Your workshop looks amazing. Thanks for keeping this blog!

I discovered you through the joint podcast you did with the WW.

I wimped out. I went and bought an inexpensive acoustic/electric guitar for myself for my birthday. HAH! My woodworking interest for music would be wood instruments.

Comment on Guitar – Headstock by Guitar Building – Homework | This Week in Wood

Guitar Building – Homework | This Week in Wood — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:49:50 +0000

[...] my previous post (Guitar – Headstock), I talked about the homework that my guitar building instructor gave us. In that post (an update [...]

Comment on Frame Glue Up by Larry Marshall

Larry Marshall — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:15:06 +0000

Your project is looking great. I can’t see those blemishes you see

Don’t give up on chopping mortises without pre-drilling. For myself, unless it’s a very large mortise, I never drill as it simply slows me down. No right answers here but I find if I start slow, removing a shallow mortise and then starting to work deeper the mortise itself serves to direct the chisel. By contrast, there is no direction if the mortise area is full of holes.

How do you like your Two Cherries chisels?

Cheers — Larry “aka Woodnbits”

Comment on Unremarkable Shop Time by glennth

glennth — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:09:45 +0000

Scott, Thanks for the comment. I’d love to hear more about strategies for getting tools off of ebay. I’ve bought a few electronic items (more my true area of expertise) and had good luck but I imagine that there are more tricks on what to look so you at least get something decent. I’d love to get some moulding planes and maybe a saw or two. I agree that tearing something down gets you a better feel. I don’t have to do much to them but I have a few premium planes and I’ve torn them apart and feel I know them better too.
Glenn

Comment on Unremarkable Shop Time by Scott Paul

Scott Paul — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:26:23 +0000

Glenn, great blog, I just got done reading all of it. You say that dovetail and mortise and tenon practice isn’t exciting…you should tell that too my wife…the way that I rave over one side of a dovetail makes her shake her head. Thanks for sharing. I wanted to share that I too am working on a very limited budget and have found that refurbishing old tools off of ebay etc…actually allows me to get high quality tools and I feel like I “know” them better than if I bought brand new. Anyway, thanks for sharing! I’ll be reading more!

Scott

Comment on Standing Laptop Desk by Mortise and Tenon Practice | This Week in Wood

Mortise and Tenon Practice | This Week in Wood — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:27:22 +0000

[...] going to keep practicing though and hopefully get a really consistent fit. My next project (see earlier post) will have quite a lot of these joints so I need to get it [...]

Comment on Updated Shop Tour – Detailed by Next Projects | This Week in Wood

Next Projects | This Week in Wood — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:46:44 +0000

[...] am thinking, as I work more and more at my workbench (see Updated Shop Tour for pictures), that I will have to build one myself. I am figuring out that certain vices [...]

Comment on Dovetail Practice – an update by Back to practicing dovetails | This Week in Wood

Back to practicing dovetails | This Week in Wood — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:19:29 +0000

[...] mentioned in the past that I am practicing hand cut dovetails (see Practice Update). Our family had a run with the flew so it’s taken a few weeks to get back into a normal [...]

Comment on Lie-Nielsen Tool Event – Wrap up by Hand Plane for shooting board | This Week in Wood

Hand Plane for shooting board | This Week in Wood — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:56:37 +0000

[...] I mentioned in my last post regarding the Lie-Nielsen Tool Event, I was thinking about a dedicated hand plane for the shooting [...]

Comment on Off to Port Townsend by Lie-Nielsen Tool Event – Wrap up | This Week in Wood

Lie-Nielsen Tool Event – Wrap up | This Week in Wood — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:13:24 +0000

[...] I mentioned in my last post, I headed up to Port Townsend. It turned out to be a 2 1/2 hour road trip (each way, including [...]

Comment on Shooting boards by Bench hook vs Shooting board | This Week in Wood

Bench hook vs Shooting board | This Week in Wood — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:17:37 +0000

[...] in my previous post on Shooting board, I said I was putting runners for the hand plane to ride against. That worked [...]

Comment on Handcut Dovetail Hope Chest – Wrap Up by Handcut Dovetail practice | This Week in Wood

Handcut Dovetail practice | This Week in Wood — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:52:12 +0000

[...] the class on Handcut Dovetails that I attended at Northwest Woodworking Studio, for the first half of a day, we used a simple [...]

Comment on Handcut Dovetail Hope Chest – Wrap Up by Shop Tour – Pictoral | This Week in Wood

Shop Tour – Pictoral | This Week in Wood — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:44:26 +0000

[...] Here is a shot of the entire corner where I have a quick/dirty shop made cabinet for hand planes/chisels/marking/measuring tools along with hand saws on the wall. I keep my saw benches (modeled after Christopher Schwarz’ design). This area has really worked out well as I move more towards using various hand tools. You will notice that I have a dust collection set up. This is somewhat the remnants from when I had my table saw (can you imagine a table saw taking up nearly the entire shop) but it’s still useful for shop cleanup and some of the remaining power tools (planer, sander). Notice that I still am working on that handcut dovetail hope chest. [...]