Walt, Thanks for sharing a pic of your great fish table! It is such an inspiration to see what others can do with recylced materials. For those who are just...
Hi Walt ! Looks like you're just as handy with a brush as you are with regular tools! Wish I could paint like that. I'm up late tonight trying to upload some...
Hello to all. I am trying to determine the best clear exterior finish for peeled furniture. I have tried double boiled linseed oil that contains both a UV and...
We are producer of woods furniture from Indonesia, from the woods: mahogany, teak, and rattan. My name Tonny, from tonny fruniture. Address : Gedangan rt07...
I have 30 or 40 really nice diamond willows I prepared to make chairs etc. but don't seem to have the time to continue with them. {I write.} Does anybody...
Hi Walt That's a great idea anout milling a flat on a stick ! I tried it using my jointer (Being verrrry careful with my fingers!) and had very good results....
... chairs ... sanded ... this ... I'd appreciate hearing from you. ....Byron I may be interested in some of your sticks as I have incorporated diamond...
Hello all! I'm a new member, and also new to building rustic furniture. I've recently finished my 2nd chair (boy... was the first one ever rustic!!! heheh) ...
Hi Dan and welcome ! You might want to check message 588, where Walt Lysack wrote about clamping a hand plane in a woodworking vise and carefully moving a ...
Hi and I have been there with you and what I have found is that mount your padding and cover on 3/4" ply like a old chrome dinnet chair and screw it on at the...
... Yeah, but they do have to be flat enough to keep the seat from wobbling, right? I saw that post on use a plane... may try that once I get a plane (heheh!)...
That works well enough, huh? I guess I'll just have to give it a try and hope for the best! I posted a couple of pics this morning if you wanna check 'em out....
Ok, one of you experts, how do you best level the legs? I bet one of you know a way that will make us all go "gosh, why didn't I think of that". ... From:...
Hi Ron! I'm no expert but here's my $.02 worth, First work on a level sturdy surface. I use an old picnic table with adjustable levelers I installed on the...
... Thanks! One thing that I learned from the 2nd chair is that, if I'm gonna do a woven seat like that, and have the vertical rungs on the chair back, then I...
Dan- The other reason to have another rung on the back is that as weight is apply to the seat, the vertical pieces in the back will eventually work their way...
Hey, Amy! Hiho fellow Woodlander! Finally got my email up and running again and my website on the new host company, so I'm back in business after being without...
hi i only joined last night and while i was drinking my morning coffe i read about discarded materials and specifically pallets.. yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i managed...
So far I've been mostly lucky in not ruining any pieces by drilling my mortises at the wrong angle, but I pray before every one, especially when its a...
I just joined this a few days ago. Bim came to the Woodlanders this year and I heard about it through him and through Wicker Woman!! My yahoo email account...
We have a TON of box elder growing down here (Minnesota), and that's one tree that nobody cares if you cut. Has anybody tried using it for furniture wood? My...
If you come up with an easy way to get the nails out of those pallets, let me know! Thanks! Chris ________________________________ From: Michael Henry...
... If you come up with an easy way to get the nails out of those pallets, let me know! Thanks! Chris ________________________________ From: Michael Henry...
Yeah, I did a little Googling after I posted that message, and was surprised to learn that it is in the maple family (acer). It also tends to have purplish...
... Good point that I hadn't considered! That's the sort of tip that makes a group like this so valuable! Thanks. ... nice! It sure is a time-consuming job,...
Dan- We've all learned as we've gone along. With mortise and tennon ... design ... Ahhhhhhhhh, not really. I was trying to be positive. The only thing you can...
Hello all, I do alot of this crooked stuff, and what I do is put a pilot screw at the estimated correct angle (usually a thin drywall screw) a few inches away...
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