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The Oak ‘Artisan’ – Part 5, Nearly There!

August 8, 2012 By Richard Maguire 7 Comments

The best and most efficient way to mark out mortices for me is to use a story stick. It’s just a simple stick with all of the measurements drawn on to it so I can reference from either the top or bottom of the leg and mark on the appropriate line. I just make a little scratch on the leg and then go … [Read more...]

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The Oak ‘Artisan’ – Part 4

July 27, 2012 By Richard Maguire 5 Comments

Once the top had been glued together and fully cured I removed the clamps and left it one side to allow it to stabilise. I don’t know the exact reason but after such a large glue up the top can be quite unstable for a short length of time so I give five days or so for it to settle, this also lets me … [Read more...]

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The Oak ‘Artisan’ – Gluing up the Top

June 7, 2012 By Richard Maguire 11 Comments

Gluing up the workbench top

The top is made up of three slabs which meant there was only two joints to worry about but because these are wide slabs there wasn’t any room for sloppiness.  If I’d tried to just clamp poor edge joints together on sections this large then the joint would be guaranteed to fail so I needed to take my … [Read more...]

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A Hateful Day!

March 21, 2012 By Richard Maguire

Hate is a very strong word, but we all have jobs that we hate and today was one of those hateful days full of jobs I hate. To top it of, I arrived at the workshop to find the drains had blocked up … again. One more hated job to add to the list of hated jobs. I decided to start with the worst job … [Read more...]

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The Oak ‘Artisan’ – Getting Started

March 13, 2012 By Richard Maguire 9 Comments

My ears picked up, I heard the distinctive click of the kettle coming off the boil. I knew it was close, I could picture the boiling water flowing onto the tea bag, the sweet sent hitting the air. Any minute now…. And right on queue there she was tea in hand. She put it in the usual spot, on … [Read more...]

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