Larry | January 22, 2010
You know you’re a left-handed woodworker when you prefer your face vise on the right end of your bench. The photo above demonstrates this. That’s Shannon Rogers, the Renaissance Woodworker, showing everyone his newly completed and totally awesome Roubo-style bench. It’s built from ash and weighs about a gazillion pounds so it’s hard to understand [...]
Larry | November 21, 2009
I’ve mentioned a cabinet I’m making in previous posts. This cabinet is destined to hold the client’s spoon collection and so I’ve got to install holders for the spoons. Back when I was selecting wood I cut up a bunch of 3/8″ maple strips to use for this purpose and this post is but a [...]
Larry | October 16, 2009
If you create small things from wood, whether they be miniature furniture or small boxes, you are faced with the need to scrape and/or sand the surfaces of the small pieces you’ve cut. So much miniature furniture is ruined by well-meaning miniaturists who hold the piece in their hand and try to sand it either [...]
Larry | October 7, 2009
When someone touts the virtues of any workbench, all the emphasis is placed on the nature of the vises. I’m an oddball, I guess, as in my view, most benches have their functionality limited by the vises hanging off of them, not improved.
Yes, a vise is nice and when I build my dream bench I’ll [...]
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 | April 30, 2009
Most miniaturists own a Dremel tool. Because of this, most miniaturists own a gazillion bits, disks, drums, and wheels associated with their use. While many seem baffled over how to use this vast array of tooling, all of us must deal with putting them somewhere.
It’s no surprise, then, that when people see my solution to [...]
Larry | April 28, 2009
I’ve gotten a couple queries about the system I was using to hold things in place during the casket assembly project. I thought I’d address it here by showing you how to build one. The basic “system” is a magnet board that looks like this:
There are a couple commercial magnet boards available, most notably the [...]
Larry | April 25, 2009
Many miniaturists have used Preac table saws when they attend workshops. While smaller in number, many have realized their usefulness and now have one in their own shops.
While many have the tool available to them, what’s not so available are people talking about how to use them. Pete and Pam Boorman do put on well-attended [...]
Larry | April 20, 2009
Welcome back to the square casket project. Today we’re going to assemble the basic box. This is not difficult but two things determine success. The first is the precision with which you create the parts. If they’re not the right dimensions, or they’re not square, they won’t assemble into a box no matter what you [...]
Larry | April 17, 2009
As I was pondering the construction of the casket for Lisa, my two neurons rubbed together and spoke. They said, “Why don’t you step through the construction of this box with the folks, showing them some of the things you do when building miniatures?” As these two neurons are all I have to work with, [...]
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