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Garth Shoemaker |
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I took up woodworking with the goal of making a violin, but I've been sidetracked into the cabinetmaking side of things. Right now I'm trying to improve on my hand-tool joinery skills. Here are a few things I've made:
A WorkbenchMade out of western maple. The legs are "x" shaped, joined with cross-laps, through which a single stretcher passes, secured with a keyed tenon. This took forever because I messed up the tenons, and ended up waiting 6 months until I got a router and figured out how to fix it.
A TableBuilt in the Mission style, modeled loosely after ones made by Harvest House. This project turned out to be a beast, mostly because of the large number of mortice + tenon joints. There were 40 mortice + tenons, which translates into 320 saw cuts (by hand) for just the tenons, 90% of which needed adjustment by chisel to matches the mortices.
A Small BoxOak, with hand-cut dovetails and hand-carved top.
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