Episode - 11 - Interim 2008.07.13
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Episode 11 - Interim for 2008.07.13
News News News. Lots of news and a little woodworking.
Vacations
The Novice Garage Woodworker resurfaces!
Family News
The New Tree On The Block
Sorry for not having a 'What I Learned This Week' episode this week. I'll be on vacation starting the day after class this week, so I won't be able to get an episode up for you. Maybe a longer one in two weeks? Maybe a couple of short one while I'm on vacation? Maybe.
Check out the XLegTable progress on my photo album, click on XLeg Table
Posted by Rick Waters at 7/14/2008 9:02 AM and is filed under Hobbies,Woodworking,Games and Hobbies,Furniture,Arts 
Rick,
Good episode. Glad to hear you have found balance in your life with chisels. Great work on those tenons. Next you should think about a dado set. I have been using my Freud set for over 5 years now and have no complaints. That will really help to speed up those tenon cuts so you can reserve the fine tuning for the chisels. You should try some router mortises too. Practice on some scraps boards. I always cut my mortises first and then refine the tenon to fit the mortise. The tenon is much easier to tweak than the mortise. Have fun in St Louis. Are you going to the world's first Wal-mart??? lol!
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Rick,
Just looking over the pics. I think you went at the wide leg tenon the hard way. I am curious to hear your reasoning. Perhaps I am confused. I think if you cut the tenon so that it is square to the shoulder then you could just cut a normal straight mortise. The way you have it is the tenon is set at an angle to the should meaning now you have to cut an angled mortise. Am I misunderstanding? I admire your craftmanship if you can pull that off. I'm a wimp and would go the easier way myself.
Shannon
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The reason I decided to have the tenon on the Wide Leg be in line with the board instead of perpendicular with the panel it connects to, is that I thought it would offer more stability - that's all.
After some work last night in trying to cut an angled mortise to fit the angled tenon of the Thick Leg, I decided to recut the tenon to be perdendicular with the table top. I was having a heck of a time trying to get the angles on the mortise to match those on the tenon. I'm still not sure where I went wrong, but I'm not going to worry about it for now. I wish I could have pulled off the angled mortise and tenon, but for now, I'll concede and do it the easier way.
I'm going to take the scraps (I have many now) and practise all kinds of joinery techniques after this project is finished, but I'll update everyone in the coming episodes.
Rick
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Rick, I want to applaud you on your enthusiasm and determination with this new hobby of yours, but after listening to all of these podcasts, I feel that I would be doing the world a disservice if I don't voice some opinions here.
First of all, I am only a couple years into woodworking, and I remember how exciting it was to jump into projects and use the tools that I bought, but I have to be honest that you scare me with your lack of knowledge in how to use tools, what joinery is, how to create joints, etc.
I am not entirely sure that you should be using chisels, jointers, or table saws without supervision, let alone teaching your child how to use a lathe. I cannot imagine your child using a lathe with just a couple videos to watch and your supervision. It is an accident waiting to happen. If your child is interested in something that you do not know anything about, then take a class together so that you both can learn how to use the machine. Also, I would recommend learning about joinery and also learn more about how to use the tools that you have before attempting to create advanced furniture.
I am sorry about the negative tone of this comment, but after listening to you even consider trying to use a jointer to shave a tenon cheek, and then the thought of that same person teaching children anything woodworking related forced me to interject. The best advice that I can give anybody just starting out is to read, watch, and listen to learn the basics first and then practice the basic skills. It is like you are a first grader trying to learn calculus without having learned arithmetic. Woodworking is too dangerous for this approach.
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I wanted to add a follow up comment because I don't want to come over as a total jerk. My intention in the last comment was to try to point out that safety is a major concern, and I get the feeling from your podcast that you could learn more about the machines you are operating and the functions you are trying to perform so that you will woodwork safer and more effective. On the bright side, I want to thank you for putting your time and effort into creating this podcast and documenting your journey. Obviously, it is more than I am willing to do, and I commend you for it. It seems that you are learning quite a bit about the technical side of this journey with the podcast and blog, etc. which doubles the amount of knowledge that you are taking in. Great job. I just wanted to stress that there are so many resources out there, we are so lucky to have people like Marc and Matt who constantly give to the woodworking community and forums such as Lumberjocks (which I highly recommend you check out at lumberjocks.com) where so many individuals are at your disposal for questions and who are interested in hearing and seeing what you are up to. So, learn what you can, practice as much as possible, and tackle challenges when they come.
Happy Woodworking, please keep it safe,
Zac
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Rick,
First of all, I agree with pretty much everything Zac said. Second, the audio quality was much better this time around. If you can repeat whatever changes you made, you should be all set.
Jason
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