Larry | July 31, 2009
Pat Roberson asked if I’d mind is she “copied” the simple bird I cut and stuck our garden. I assume that she took from my comment that I just drew the outline directly onto wood that the artwork was original with me. Alas, that is not the case but it gives me an opportunity to [...]
Larry | July 28, 2009
I’ve made several blog posts on doing various things with a scroll saw. In each you see close ups of the business end of a scroll saw. But it was pointed out to me that I’ve failed to present a single photo of the whole saw for people who aren’t familiar with the tool. My [...]
Larry | July 26, 2009
Many miniaturists own a scroll saw. Often it’s the only major power tool that they own beyond a Dremel tool and they use it in their miniatures work. It seems like I’ve had one in my shop forever and for most of that time, like others, I used it in my modeling and never gave [...]
Larry | July 19, 2009
Cyberspace dialog can teach us much. One of the things it can teach us is what concepts some people think they understand but don’t. The third encounter with discussions of measuring devices and such have convinced me that a quick post about accuracy vs precision might be useful.
The typical way these two concepts are presented [...]
Larry | July 17, 2009
Today is wonderful and I feel GOOD! I mentioned a few posts ago that I was dealing with some surgery issues and that things would slow down at Wood’n Bits. It’s been something of an interesting road between then and now and I’ve met some really nice folks, all of whom have been nurses, anethesiologists, [...]
Larry | July 16, 2009
I don’t know if I should admit this but what are you if you can’t laugh at yourself? You know you’re a woodworker when you’re more interested in the platter the dessert sits on than the dessert itself. And maybe, just maybe you know you’re a woodworker when you’ve just gotten out of [...]
Larry | July 13, 2009
A few weeks ago I mentioned that you could pre-order a special issue from Fine Woodworking titled How to Design Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary. At the time the book had not been released so I talked about it based on my previous experience with Fine Woodworking special issues.
Well, the postman just changed that as [...]
Larry | July 9, 2009
I’m a sucker for castles. I guess it’s the Harry Potter gene I lug around with me. I’m also an afficionado of card modeling, called papercraft by some. When the two come together I get giddy and ignore stuff like whether a paper castle has anything to do with woodworking. And so…
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Larry | July 5, 2009
I thought, since I’ve just posted about bowsaws, that some might be interested in a blog post by Kari Kuhlman. It presents a wonderful video, done in 1932, of a guy using handtools to create a spoked wheel. In it, he uses bowsaws on several occasions. Maybe more importantly, however, is that you can see [...]
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