A. Pendant Pull #1.skp (96.0 KB)
This model is based upon Phillip Morley’s article in Fine Woodworking Magazine.
The image shows the one in the article. Mine is 1/16" wider but otherwise the same.
This model is based upon Phillip Morley’s article in Fine Woodworking Magazine.
The image shows the one in the article. Mine is 1/16" wider but otherwise the same.
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A. Chippendale Side Chair #1.skp (321.2 KB)
The reference for this chair is Fine Woodworking Magazine, Issue # 271, Dec 2018,
“Building a Chippendale Chair,” by Steve Brown. I had to make a couple of templates in one of the screenshots to place the parts. Angles of most of the chair were both trapazoidal and with a cant. This took me longer than most models. The only upholstery I modeled was the cover and dust cover.
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A. Card Table #1.skp (243.8 KB)
This card table was shown in an article by Hank Gilpin, Fine Woodworking Magazine, Issue # 273, Feb 2019, “The Illustrated Cutlist.”
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A. Beans in a Tub #1.skp (338.0 KB)
Physical therapy for neuropothy in the feet may involve sensitivity exercises like rolling your bare feet in a tub on dry beans or rice. I definitely used the Dave Method to model the small bean.
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A. Tool Shelf #1.skp (196.9 KB)
Here’s a shelf for displaying shop tools. It’s built kind of like a Thomas Jefferson book shelf.
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A. Tool Case #1.skp (335.4 KB)
Here is a tool case with a sliding door that slides from top to front.
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A. Gutter Cleaner #1.skp (181.0 KB)
My wife saw this on U-Tube. The dimensions have to match the guttering of the house. It attaches to a telescoping pole, and allows gutter cleaning from the ground without having to climb a ladder. One part is used to push the leaves in either direction, and the other scooper part is used to scoop out the gunk inside the gutter.
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I’m not a hunter but due to the limited effectiveness of jumping up and down while cawing like a crow I’d be open to the idea of a woodpecker season. But I digress.
How are you making inlays?
I would use a coping saw on 1/8" ply to cope out the different colors. I haven’t done any yet. There’s a Finewoodworking article by Stephen Randall on making such inlays Japanese style. I would just like to try it one day with North American birds. That picture was taken by my son’s wife looking out on their balcony in Minnesota. We do have pileated woodpeckers in Arkansas too.
I’m no expert but I’m convinced that woodpeckers in general and pileated in particular have a better sense for wet house paint than they do for bugs. I shrieked a hex at one yesterday!
I like the idea of making inlays of various animals. Here in MN we have blue jays, robins, blue birds, yellow throats, turkeys… and many more. There are also a lot of small mammals, like woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, Opossums, skunks… Anyway, I don’t know at all how to do it but was thinking of getting a cnc machine for the purpose of making inlays and I’d want to make sets of animals and other designs. Winter is my ‘learning season’ so I’m deciding on that now.
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The motion camera at my son’s house catches all kinds of critters.
I have a number of cameras, but only one hardwired… and not in a great spot for catching the wildlife. Turkey overnight in oaks next to our house and deer eat apples and pears in our yard. Given that we’re being blackmailed, we even -reluctantly- put out suet for the woodpeckers. We’re always watching animals doing their thing around here.
Regardless of animal types around here, if any of them are going to be inlay fodder, I need to figure out file types and equipment. I’m thinking SU can create stl files and those may be the path to cnc machines.
Otherwise, do you plan to send to Layout, print, and cut out the shapes for overlaying/tracing? I think cutting the shapes would go smoothly. But, for my part, I think I might be a knucklehead at carving/chiseling out the inset portion by hand.
I’m on Go, and don’t have Layout. I would have to print it out from a screenshot and trace over carbon paper. But you are supposed to cut them a little larger, overlap pieces together and cope again. Then they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.
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A. Treadle Jigsaw #1.skp (469.5 KB)
This isn’t quite as nice as a Chevrolet de Marquetry, so I just called it a Treadle Jigsaw. It is simpler and uses a bungee cord to spring the blade up.
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This jig fits in a moxon style bench top bench. The chops are 4" wide and thick, and that is plenty of support for the router. The workpiece would sit on the appropriate number of spacers which are set on the the top of the bench top bench. The router face plate would be bolted into the frame. The bolt holes in the frame were not modeled.
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A. Tool Holders #1.skp (186.1 KB)
This model was inspired by Jason Stephen’s article in Fine Woodworking Magazine,
Issue # 272, Winter 2018/2019, “Hanging Panels Keep Tools Close at Hand.”
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A. Cam Clamp #1.skp (135.9 KB)
Reference for this clamp is an article from Fine Woodworking Magazine, Issue # 272, Winter 2018/2019, by Nathan Murphy.
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I never have a good work holding method for a quartered or eighth of a riven log. This is an attempt to solve that problem, when it is clamped in a moxon vise.
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This is a better holding solution than the one above. I’ve used ratchet straps before and they are very secure. The problem is that round things roll, but with these holding components that is solved.
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