Finished brush stem or mop handle

WoodWorker | April 15, 2010

Finally I got time to finish my brush stem and make a little blog entry. Here are few pictures of the finished product: My colleagues could not understand why I do it, they said, “Go into a shop and buy one”. But I am woodworker and I’d like to make it by myself.

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Update on my crest stem

WoodWorker | April 3, 2010

I sacrificed my lunch to do some more operations on my new crest stem. Since this was my first time to make handcut dovetails, I make an error on first marking, I was rushing and not thinking clearly. And now after the dovetail was cut and joined ( unfortunately, I do not have the right [...]

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Start of a one more crest stem

WoodWorker | March 24, 2010

Today I went to work one hour earlier and used half of the lunch to start a new crest stem. Some of the wood blanks I had already selected earlier. It takes a lot of time to choose from pile of scraps whits particular piece of wood to use . So , here are all [...]

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Mop handle with a twist

WoodWorker | March 20, 2010

I have long been fed up with these broom stem breakages , so I decided to make one unbreakable mop stick by myself. I have a lot of wood and veneer scraps, so I picked some: When I made the gluing , I thought that I shall give it a little twist: After that I [...]

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My first parquetry coffee table.

WoodWorker | September 26, 2009

This is first of four I have made in total. I made this coffee table in year 1999. Back then I worked in a small firm building custom furniture and I had good boss and free time on my work place. Its 100% particle board and veneer , no wood are used. My boss charged [...]

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My marquetry tools

WoodWorker | September 10, 2009

In the beginning , I made myself tools : And I saw that they were good . And then I made with those tools all my veneer mosaics . And they were also not bad .

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