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Slabz
First slabz cut with new Granberg Alaskan Sawmill Go make something PS these are for sale at Ft Mifflin, contact me for more info
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Making Wooden Screws 1
Wooden Screws, wood threading, screw making etc has been a bane of my woodworking career for as long as I can remember. Way way back at my beginning, I bought a couple of “ordinary” (cheaper) taps and screw boxes (the die of wood threading) expecting ordinary results. The threads broke off, or the cutters broke,…
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Steady on now!
Ok, calm down. You all (both of you) know that I prefer and promote hand tool woodworking, or as I often call it Pre-Industrial Woodworking. But i’m getting old (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it), 62, my back is all achy, knuckles scream and hurt etc. And since I don’t have and can’t…
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Brainstorming a “Whatsit?”
In the above video there are a bunch of tools that you might recognize. and one or two that are unusual. like the twyble with the bent tips.. at the end he makes a flax break with te tools that he sharpens. In another film like this a gentleman make a spinning wheel and then…
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Today at Ft Mifflin 26/1/23
Today’s challenge: turn a large jar into a butter churn… Prep some stock Fit jar lid into stock for the top. Make the dasher’s cross piece. Sand, trim, polish with beeswax and mineral oil mixture. And VIOLETS!! A nice butter churn from a 1.5 gallon jar! (chair is not one of mine) Bee well Go…
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Gloomy day at the wildlife refuge.
Overcast, clouds dragging on the ground. Good thing I brought some light reading Go make somethingBe well
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potential large job coming up.
keep an eye out here. Book cases around existing fireplace. go make something.
The Broken Tradition
my musings on woodworking and other things I do.
