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Saturday

Should You Join a Wood Working Guild?

Wood Working Guilds

A wood working guild is a club or an organization of craftsmen in the wood working industry. Wood working guilds are groups who have high wood working skills. If you want information about the wood working guilds in your city you can always take the help of internet.

There are web sites that will give up to date information of the guilds and their members. The main purpose for wood working guilds is to share tools and expertise and to work together for betterment of the wood working industry.

Here are some well known wood working guilds: Cabinetmakers Association: Cabinet shop owners formed this association. The main goal was to discuss the problems faced by cabinet shop owners. They also got a chance to interact with managers and owners of small cabinet shops.

Central Florida Woodworkers Guild: This association cultivates appreciation and awareness of wood working crafts. It promotes and encourages high standards of design and workmanship of wood working crafts. You can take the help of their wood workers for counseling.

Colorado Woodworkers Guild: This association is a group of professional and amateur wood workers who imparted their knowledge for the welfare of the society. Their goal is also to promote and encourage excellence in woodworking.

Columbus Woodworkers Guild: Each month this association conducts a general meeting. The association ensures that the meeting is informative, enjoyable and educational for all members.

Conejo Valley Woodworkers" Association: This association is in Ventura County in California. Their main goal is to teach, promote and share their wood working experience with others.

Fine Woodworkers of Austin: This non profit club is located in texas area that provides information and education to those who are interested in learning fine wood working skills.

Greenville Wood workers Guild: This association strives hard to elevate the public's knowledge in the art of woodworking. Through collective effort it generates various Charitable causes.

Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers: This is a non profitable group of serious amateur workers that education, communication and fellowship. This association makes exquisite wood carvings and elegant furniture

Guild of Oregon Woodworkers: This association gives knowledge about their wood working skills through lectures, demonstrations and seminars.

Lake Charles Woodworkers Club: The main purpose behind starting this organization was to give information about the safety measures while handling wood working tools. Their members include professionals and amateurs from all fields of wood working industry.

Minnesota Wood workers Guild: This association which is group of amateur and skilled woodworkers has 3 main goals: to educate general public about wood working, to make new friends and spread the importance of wood working advocate and the last is to promote high standards in woodworking.

Northwest Indiana Woodworkers Association: The main goal is to improve their woodworking skills and share innovative ideas.

Scroll saw Association of the world: This internationally acclaimed non profit organization is dedicated to the development of scrollsawing. Their purpose is give information about scrollsawing skills. The organization strives hard to provide useful knowledge in woodworking.

If you have any query regarding woodworking products then you can always take the help of these wood working guilds.

Sunday

Must-Have Equipment Used In Wood Working


If you want to make any furniture in your house or you want to start your own wood products factory then wood working equipment is a must. Wood working equipment is used to mould a piece of wood into the desired shape. Some of the common wood working equipment include biscuit joiner, chainsaw, drill, nail gun and wood router. They are used to join 2 pieces of wood. Some of the hand held power tools are as follows:

Wood working machine: This machine is mainly used to process wood. These machines are extensively used in woodworking and are powered with the help of electric motors.

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Biscuit joiner: A biscuit joiner also referred as plate joiner is commonly used for joining 2 pieces of wood. It has a 100mm diameter circular saw blade that is used for cutting a semi-circular shaped hole in wood composite panels.




Chainsaw: This wood working tool is a portable, motorized, mechanical saw. It is very useful in logging activities that include felling, bucking and limbing. Felling of trees becomes a easier job using this chainsaw. It is commonly used in removing branches and foliage that are causing obstruction. Chainsaws are often used to harvest firewood and to fell snags. So if you want to cut wood for building structures then you should use chainsaws.




Drill: If you want to make holes in wooden pieces then you can take the help of a driller. Drillers are frequently used in metal working, wood working and construction sites. Types of drill include cordless drills, and rotary hammer drills.



Jigsaw: It is a working tool that is extremely useful to cut arbitrary curves that include stenciled designs into a small piece of wood. Tool kit of most carpenters contains a jigsaw. If you require fine cutting then you must use a jigsaw.




Nail gun: If you want to insert nails into wood then the best way to do it is by using a nail gun. The nails are driven by electromagnetism, highly flammable gases that include propane or butane, and by compressed air. Previously hammers were used to insert nails into wood. By using hammers you may injure your fingers. That is why instead of hammers many carpenters are using nail guns. It has become a popular tool amongst carpenters and builders

Wood Router: It is used to hollow out (route out) an area from a large piece of wood. This working tool is now replaced by modern spindle tool. This is an electric hand router that performs the same job and is commonly used for moulding of timber. It is also used to cut grooves, for edge moulding and to cut some joints.

Sander: It is a powerful working tool that is used to give a smooth finish to the wood. These sanders are often powered by electric motors.

Rotary tool: This tool is extremely useful as it is a multipurpose power tool. It has many rotating accessory bits that can be effectively used to cut, carve, polish etc. Rotary tool has low torque; hence it is safe for freehand use.

All these wood working equipment will help in giving an attractive look to your furniture.



Saturday

Tools You Will Need To Build A Wooden Train

Toy trains have almost become as much a symbol of Christmas time as reindeer, snowflakes, and hot chocolate. Almost every Christmas movie ever made features the heartwarming shot of a beutifully decorated Christmas tree with an enourmous pile of presents piled under it, and a toy train circling the perimeter.

Another gift that people love to give and recieve are the homemade variety. In some households these handmade presents become wooden heirlooms that are handed down from one generation to the next.

Designing and making a wooden toy train is a wonderful way to combine two traditions.

Your going to have to decide what kind of assembly process your going to use for your wooden train project.

A dowel assembly system is the process of using wooden nails and non-toxic glue to hold the peices of wood together. The upside to a using a dowel assembly is that it maintains the purity of the wood. The downside to the system is that regular wear and tear along with changes in weather cause wood to shrink and you will have to periodically have to reglue the wooden train.

Many inexperinced woodworkers opt to use nails to hold the peices of wood together. Although experinced woodworkers frown on this method there is nothing wrong with using nails provided you make sure that there aren't any sharp edges.

Screws are a secure way to fasten the peices of wood together. If this is the method you prefer make sure that the wooden train is periodically examined to make sure that none of the screws have worked thier way loose.

The use of a good strong glue is especally secure. It is also a safe way to create a toy that you are planning to give to a young child. Check the toy from time to time to make sure that the glue is staying stuck. When handleing strong woodworking glue be sure to take precautions, you don't want to have your hand permenatly stuck to a wooden train.

What type of wood you are going to use? Hardwood or softwood? The first thing you should know is that just because they are called hardwood and softwood does not mean that the wood you will be using is hard or soft, all the terns do is clarify wether or not they are from coniferous or desidous trees Softwood is descious, it comes from Pine trees. Hardwood is coniferous it comes from trees that shed thier leaves everyfall. You should avoid using Ceder, unless it is really well maintained it can splinter. If you are giving the toy to a young child (one who sticks everything in their mouth) avoid the use of Oak, which is toxic when ingested. If you are considering an exotic hardwood check and make sure it isn't a toxic wood. The wood you are using should be planed into peices of wood that wont break easily, the thicker the wood the less likly it will be to break in the middle of your project. Bear in mind, not all types of wood absorb stains. When you are staining the wood make sure you are using a non-toxic stain that is childsafe.

Find a set of instructions that are easy to follow. Keep them in a safe place where they wont get lost and adhere to them.

Leave yourself plenty of time. Building a wooden train could be a much larger, and more difficult project then you anticipate.

Once you become adept at making wooden trains, you may want to try your hand at creating miniture wooden structues for classic toy train layouts, and garden railroads.

Thursday

Video of my Newest Wood Carving Projects

Here's my latest video with my newest carvings, if you're interested.



As you can see, I love wood carving!

Tuesday

Tips for Building Childrens Furntiture

Screws driven into the end grain of ply-wood should be long enough to take a 3/4-inch bite into the wood. Longer screws will not add materially to the strength of the joint and may split the wood.

Screws driven into core stock or solid wood should take a 1-inch bite—but to prevent splitting, a pilot hole, half the diameter of the screw, should be drilled first in the solid wood.

Screws driven into exposed surfaces of the project should be concealed with long-grain wood plugs as shown in the photos. These plugs are cut as needed from the sides of scrap wood with a special 1/2-inch plug cutter. They differ from dowels in that their ends have the grain pattern running across the surface, while dowels have an end grain.

The advantages of long-grain plugs are many. They can be cut from wood that matches in color and grain pattern the surface being plugged, and when properly matched and fitted they be-come almost invisible in the finished piece. Plugs take stain finishes in the same shade as the surrounding wood, while dowels, with their end grains, soak up the stain and appear considerably darker than the surrounding wood.

Dowels used as plugs may in time distort due to their failure to shrink and expand in the same direction as the wood which holds them. Plugs, however, will expand and contract in the same way as the wood. Finally, if for any reason a plug must be removed later, it can be chipped out easily with a 1/4-inch chisel, while the only way a dowel can be removed is to drill it out.

Friday

Wood Working Guilds for Woodworkers

A wood working guild is a club or an organization of craftsmen in the wood working industry. Wood working guilds are groups who have high wood working skills. If you want information about the wood working guilds in your city you can always take the help of internet.

There are web sites that will give up to date information of the guilds and their members. The main purpose for wood working guilds is to share tools and expertise and to work together for betterment of the wood working industry.

Here are some well known wood working guilds: Cabinetmakers Association: Cabinet shop owners formed this association. The main goal was to discuss the problems faced by cabinet shop owners. They also got a chance to interact with managers and owners of small cabinet shops.

Central Florida Woodworkers Guild: This association cultivates appreciation and awareness of wood working crafts. It promotes and encourages high standards of design and workmanship of wood working crafts. You can take the help of their wood workers for counseling.

Colorado Woodworkers Guild: This association is a group of professional and amateur wood workers who imparted their knowledge for the welfare of the society. Their goal is also to promote and encourage excellence in woodworking.

Columbus Woodworkers Guild: Each month this association conducts a general meeting. The association ensures that the meeting is informative, enjoyable and educational for all members.

Conejo Valley Woodworkers" Association: This association is in Ventura County in California. Their main goal is to teach, promote and share their wood working experience with others.

Fine Woodworkers of Austin: This non profit club is located in texas area that provides information and education to those who are interested in learning fine wood working skills.

Greenville Wood workers Guild: This association strives hard to elevate the public's knowledge in the art of woodworking. Through collective effort it generates various Charitable causes.

Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers: This is a non profitable group of serious amateur workers that education, communication and fellowship. This association makes exquisite wood carvings and elegant furniture

Guild of Oregon Woodworkers: This association gives knowledge about their wood working skills through lectures, demonstrations and seminars.

Lake Charles Woodworkers Club: The main purpose behind starting this organization was to give information about the safety measures while handling wood working tools. Their members include professionals and amateurs from all fields of wood working industry.

Minnesota Wood workers Guild: This association which is group of amateur and skilled woodworkers has 3 main goals: to educate general public about wood working, to make new friends and spread the importance of wood working advocate and the last is to promote high standards in woodworking.

Northwest Indiana Woodworkers Association: The main goal is to improve their woodworking skills and share innovative ideas.

Scroll saw Association of the world: This internationally acclaimed non profit organization is dedicated to the development of scrollsawing. Their purpose is give information about scrollsawing skills. The organization strives hard to provide useful knowledge in woodworking.

If you have any query regarding woodworking products then you can always take the help of these wood working guilds.

Tuesday

Half round table

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Our basic 'classic' half round table motif

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Thursday

2010- Visit my maker fair

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I wrote about last week, custom market revival. Several days later, I found myself 2010 maker fair in Queens, New York, things people gathering at the thousands of people see it. CustomMade goodness, just two days after I never more custom market viability of conviction is has been.

At our booth to take advantage of our booth shows CustomMade artisans a handful of honorable mentions, and saw a crowd of people filing. Closer to something like these and a custom process is expected a person to identify the details of our many of them are pleasantly surprised responses. They, as well as to the quality of the work of startled convenient way, and custom processes that might be the opinion freely. Feel frustrated many of them cannot find what you need to provide their House, and it takes for a strong philosophical attitude chain stores. One remarkable humorous quote was "I think is the fall of the IKEA of our society". Like many of the visitors of our booth to say that the light at looked in their minds on the "don't know how it is such a good idea, why I it before never thought!"

Is the fact that the idea is to get something custom configuration often overlooked as an option. However, presented as an alternative to the warmer ground shopping method and nobody makes sense to too many of thought. With this sample story I like our many to the idea of custom receipt retrieval items are made, but I who continually you can be assured to remind custom options must be as to feel. You must to stay confident stay during our retail outlets, the crowd in our efforts to improve, handmade, personalized items of survival.
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Tuesday

Are watching the show new woodworking Mac Tommy? tell us what you think.

October 4th, 2010 by blog thumbs up 1 user is recommended. The new show, Rough Cut Woodworking Tommy Mac, aired on some PBS stations around the country this past weekend. Did you see the show? What did you think? Miss it? Check your local listings to see if its playing on a station near you.

New show, rough cut wood Tommy Mac, some PBS station, across the country has been airing this past weekend. Saw the show? Did you think? Or miss it? Check local listings, whether or not you are playing with it, near the train station,.

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Finally (already!) are. October. The usual trappings fall included: fire wood stack, raking leaves, winter coat pulling from the storage. But can something the weekend this year is new. You can see the rough cut: Tommy woodworking Mac in the first episode has the broadcast several PBS channels, around the country. Saw the show preview copy a few weeks ago. To visit the Tommy local plant and I really the opening bit liked. Always cut boards available, look at the big tree is cool. I also liked project: in a simple and elegant trestle table is walnut. I like the character of Tommy I thought because cons is Lord trying to fit long episodes to build step of every 30 minutes to show pace was desperate. Experience was able to understand as the rich woodworker. However, thought that quickly expained, time has come when some more demonstrates basic ahead of tenon joints table (or variants) and mortise and tenon was a lot of mortise and changes in a few simple words.

I see wood back to the TV to be happy. If the shop itself wasn't debut episode and caught this past weekend! so what if I do? watch the first episode was? do you like? hate it?? feel indifferent or? tell us what you think.

In the near your TV?
PBS station is playing shows?, check local listings . Connecticut is playing in Connecticut public broadcasting here, but , New York station WLIW on like play invisible. Play the 10 trestle table on Saturday morning, looks like the first episode.

Reviews for more information, read comments from our forums knots. Tommy's Web site, see lineup episode.

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Sunday

Video: help children risk NC woodworking program.

September 27, 2010 blog videos thumbs up recommends 3 users.

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In this new video is great program (that make kids) off street, and to get kid of danger in the Woodshop, make sure to Wilmington, NC. A few years ago, woodworker and Attorney James Pierce-launched through dedicated to helping inner city kids annual woodworking program. Give the skills to use in the University program teaches the new craft, we encourage staying in school and at work.

Build the project such as custom furniture you can sell at retail pen, Bowl, or program participants also turned off.

Wow-the story of Mr. Pierce is very. Sounds like he is a full-time, quit the day of his service to the community's work. Or had a chance to share your woodworking technology people one of the people and communities? knows all the toy building, such as veterinary woodworkers some guitar I teaches at the school of the children.

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