John Heisz is one of the most prolific woodworkers on YouTube. Over 55,000 subscribers enjoy watching him build projects for the shop every week. Homemade...
Woodworking on YouTube John Heisz
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Rustic wine rack ideas
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Crystal Zeller has been making my rustic wine cabinet with some interesting changes. I really like the idea of including wine glasses. If you are interested...
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Happy Halloween!
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I just heard from Alexander Lutz, in Bavaria who tells me people really enjoyed his skull & crossbones candy dispenser at his Halloween party. He...
Organizing the shop
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There is something quite satisfying about clearing space in a workshop. I started out the year with an organization state of mind and it still continues.br...
Beginning woodworking intarsia
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I want to thank everyone over on my Facebook page this week who helped me out with all sorts of tips and hints. Especially Steve Carmichael who had recently attended an intarsia class and sent me the notes he took.
I found the process to be pretty simple, but a lot of work. Plan on a lot of time sawing and sanding. If you would like to try out my scarecrow, download the pattern here. Mostly, try to cut exactly on the lines and take it very slowly with your scroll saw.
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Steve Carmichaels list of helpful intarsia tips and notes:
- Intarsia is cutting pieces from separate parts of wood and joining them together. Segmentation is cutting the entire design from one piece of wood, like a puzzle, where the wood grain matches through all the pieces of the project. You can make segmentation project look like an intarsia project by painting the pieces separately then gluing them together.
- Cut as close as possible on the line to ensure good fits.
- Use a soft drum sander on a drill press with to round all edges and avoid having 90 degree edges. This can help hide any gaps. They sell sanding drums that are soft and spongey...flex sanding drum I think.
- When adjoining pieces are cut from the same wood, cut them in different grain directions to add contrast.
- Cut all pieces out first and number each piece on the back. For tiny pieces that are too small to write on, stick them onto blue tape and write the number on the tape.
- Glue the pieces together starting from the center of the design and work your way to the outside edges. This way any mistakes will throw off pieces only half the distance. For example, if your project is 10" wide and you start from the center, any mistakes will only affect 5" of the project. If you started on the left side and worked your way to the right, any mistakes will affect all 10" of he width of the project.
- Use Aleenes Tacky Glue to glue pieces together. It sets fast and it dries clear.
- To glue pieces together, lay down a print out of the design. Cover it with wax paper. Glue pieces together laying them on top of the design as you go. Any glue squeeze out will not stick to the wax paper.
- When done gluing pieces together, sand the back to remove any glue and to level uneven pieces.
- Cut a piece of thin plywood backer board that is inset 1/8 inch from the edges of the design. Mark the location for a keyhole where it will best hang on a nail, if you plan to hang it on the wall. Cut the keyhole in the plywood, then trace the keyhole on the back of the glued project. Use a forstner bit to drill a recess in the back of the project that will be covered by the keyhole, so that when you glue it to the backerboard, a nail head can go into the keyhole for hanging. Glue the project to the backerboard with Titebond II.
- Use different colors of wood and different thicknesses of wood for effect and spray clear coat on top.
- When cutting small pieces on the scroll saw, use one of those business card refrigerator magnets for zero clearance so the piece does not fall into the hole. Just cut the magnet about half way through and stop so it covers the hole in the table.
- Use woodgrain and different species with only a clear coat, along with different thicknesses of wood, and let the wood naturally create the 3D effect
- Use a heavy bag of sand or similar material so it can conform to the uneven thickness of pieces in the project. The bag conforms to the uneven face and applies pressure to both the high and low pieces.
Project preview sliding door shop cabinet
Posted by chun | 0 comments | 6:53 PMLabels: cabinet, door, preview, project, shop, sliding, Woodworking
Painting the cabinet yesterday |
Heres a preview of the project. Video and free plans tomorrow!
Learning Curve Habits
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As a none practical, handyman, DIY type person learning woodwork as a hobby, here are a few things I have realised during my steep learning curve over...
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Make a toe pincher coffin candy dish for Halloween
Posted by chun | 0 comments | 1:57 AMLabels: a, candy, coffin, dish, for, halloween, make, pincher, toe, Woodworking
For some reason Ive been meaning to make a Halloween candy dish for a long time and never got around to it until this year.br Coffin stylesI decided a...
Kids projects
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Hey, somebody made the banana hanger! George Raburns son, Jay, liked it enough to make one himself. Nice job Jay...its a great project for kids.br...
And even more workbenches
Posted by chun | 0 comments | 2:05 PMLabels: and, even, more, Woodworking, workbenches
Krzysztof KleszczMy workbench is quite old - at least 40 years. I got it from my uncle, who used to do some woodworking/carpentry in the past. Since I...
Snazzy turned jewelry box
Posted by chun | 0 comments | 7:15 AMLabels: box, jewelry, snazzy, turned, Woodworking
Fourteen-year-old Will Preston sent over this really cool jewelry box he turned on his lathe. Its made of purpleheart, padauk, maple and walnut. The box...
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