There are three arcs in the top inlay design, and I first route the inside and outside arcs. I then place inlay strips into those two grooves. (The inlay is made the same way as before.) I roll the inlay into the grooves with a seam roller – which is a perfect tool for this […]
While we are all familiar with the many popular woodworking shows that have had long runs on public television (The Woodright’s Shop with Roy Underhill, New Yankee Workshop with Norm Abram, and This Old House, among others), there are a few that have gone less recognized. One of these was Woodworking Together, hosted by Gail […]
The inlay design for the top calls for 3 arcs at each place-setting (2 feet) repeated down each side and then joined at the ends with longer arcs. Below is the design for each place setting. Unfortunately, these are not arcs of a circle or ellipse – they are curves generated from bending strips around […]
Compound Tenons on the Table Saw By Jeff Fleisher New Market, VA It seems that every month there is another article in one of the popular woodworking magazines on building a tenoning jig for your shop. Each new jig has some new ‘special’ feature…T-slots, vertical clamps, x-y axis rotation around the center of the Earth […]
If you’re going to be in the Atlanta area this weekend, you might be interested in checking out master carver, Sarah Rowe’s free presentation on Techniques for Creating Ornamental Woodcarvings this Saturday, March 9th from 2-3pm at Rhodes Hall at 1516 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309. Ms. Rowe is originally from Columbus, GA and began […]
The dining room table is complete, delivered and installed. It was great to finally see it setup at the client”s house! Before it was packed up, I had a good friend take photos. I couldn”t be happier with how it turned out. Many long hours poured into the whole project and it was worth the effort! [You […]
Making long-grain inlay material for the top is straightforward – the same process I used before. However, there’s inlay across the end of the table and that grain runs the other direction. If use the long-grain inlay material it’d be laid into dadoes cross-grain to the table top and that could lead to some major […]