Woodworker does Christmas on a budget

[Ennobee]

I got Kathy Wise's book 'Intarsia-woodworkjng for beginners'. I guess my wife got fed up with me complaining about my segmentation projects not working out the way I wanted and decided I needed to know how it's really done. I'll be starting the first training project this afternoon.

[Ennobee]

Looks great. And if it swims without tipping over, that's a great plus.(my attempts at sailing ships always keeled over. Guess I needed a large lead me like in the 'crafts for boys' books from the 1920's I got my ideas from) so 3/4 pinewood? Am I guessing right you cut up a 1-by-4 construction plan...

[Ennobee]

Part of the wood fence in our backyard broke down and had to be replaced. So we ended up with a hole in our holiday budget, but with lots of wood slats. So when life gives you lemons, you just use them to cut yourself a Christmas tree......


Total cost $5.95 for 100 wood screws...

[Ennobee]

Welcome back... Jus in time for the holidays....

[Ennobee]

Great..... And congratulations,.
however the kid in me is just looking at that long walk of slats and wondering: ghee, bet you could run a marble down there.. would.make a nice track

[Ennobee]

My general idea was that with bevel cutting you won't need a backing plate because if you push in the pieces hard enough, the bevel pushes them into place, by times even without glue. I have tried this o some earlier works and I found that the pressure from the bevel piece is enough to even secure the...