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A Burl Clock for the Shed
To start the process, I’ve been preparing the burl slab itself, and the first part of that was the recent YouTube Chronicles video, running the burl through the drum sander. Next, I took the random...
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Rockler Bench Cookies
Out of the mists at the recent AFWS show in Las Vegas they appeared – futuristic looking like they had been sent back in time to the woodworkers of today as a gift from the future. Looking not unlike...
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Movin’ In
It was definitely a weekend revolving around the new tool (understandably), from the pickup/delivery organising on Friday, the assembly (and getting it into the shed) Saturday, and commissioning it...
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Some Torque Functions
Getting ready for the jaunt across to the US in a week’s time, I put some time running through some of the basic Torque functions. Firstly, I wanted to do some refinements to the overall setup –...
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SSYTC055 Routing the Japanese Dragon (CNC)
SSYTC055 Routing the Japanese Dragon (CNC)Filed under: CNC, Podcast, Techniques Tagged: CNC, CNC Shark, Dragon, Japanese, Routing, Walnut
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The Boris Goldberg Kerf Chair
This is pretty cool – a chair created on a CNC machine using kerfing as the technique to give it shape. Opens one’s eyes to all sorts of possibilities. Filed under: CNC Tagged: cnc machine, Kerf,...
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Routing Steel
Sound insane? It isn’t as uncommon as you’d think, but it does take a router bit that goes well above and beyond what is normally used in the woodworking arena. (Perhaps one suited to Australian...
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Blasterboyz Plaque
One thing I had yet to try on the CNC router, was other materials, and specifically aluminium. As much as ‘they’ say that some Australian timbers are harder, and that I have both cut and routed...
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Learning from mistakes
We all know the idiom about book-smarts versus street-smarts, and it holds just as true (if not more-so) for woodworking as any other pursuit. You can read and read about a topic, watch all the videos,...
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