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  0 Thread: What's a good book on dining tables?
Post: RE: What's a good book on dining tables?

AHill Wrote: (07-24-2023, 04:03 PM) -- For dimensions of things like table height, etc., an excellent book is Illustrated Cabinetmaking.  They have drawings of hundreds of different types of furnitur...
Papa Jim Woodworking 6 699 07-25-2023, 08:27 PM
  0 Thread: What's a good book on dining tables?
Post: What's a good book on dining tables?

More specifically, this table will go in a bay window dining area where the window seats have already been constructed, so it will probably be a little oddly shaped and more casual that a formal dinin...
Papa Jim Woodworking 6 699 07-21-2023, 10:12 AM
  0 Thread: One eye v. an eye and a half
Post: RE: One eye v. an eye and a half

thewalnutguy Wrote: (05-31-2023, 02:15 PM) -- Had detached retina about 25 years ago. I'd noticed the field of vision in the left eye was "cropped". This was late one Friday, and I waited until Monda...
Papa Jim Woodworking 9 946 06-01-2023, 12:57 PM
  0 Thread: One eye v. an eye and a half
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kurt18947 Wrote: (05-29-2023, 06:18 PM) -- If the surgery isn't a financial burden, what's the downside? If it doesn't work you wear a patch, just like you're talking about now. -- Oh, I've had the...
Papa Jim Woodworking 9 946 05-29-2023, 08:54 PM
  0 Thread: One eye v. an eye and a half
Post: RE: One eye v. an eye and a half

stav Wrote: (05-29-2023, 06:26 AM) -- No help for the asked question but I had a coworker that had detached retinas in both eyes and he got surgery for them both and is seeing fine now. Your situatio...
Papa Jim Woodworking 9 946 05-29-2023, 08:01 AM
  0 Thread: One eye v. an eye and a half
Post: One eye v. an eye and a half

Due to a detached retina (not woodworking related) I now have 20/20 vision in one eye and 20/150 in the other.  As a result I have greatly curtailed my woodworking over the last 2-1/2 yrs. As hard as ...
Papa Jim Woodworking 9 946 05-28-2023, 09:41 PM
  0 Thread: Show me your violin display cases
Post: RE: Show me your violin display cases

teacher Wrote: (01-31-2023, 10:51 PM) -- Great job!   Gives me an idea as what to do with a violin my dad picked up in France (WW2) All though, to him , it was a fiddle. Played by ear, never learn...
Papa Jim Woodworking 15 2,472 02-01-2023, 05:51 PM
  0 Thread: Show me your violin display cases
Post: RE: Show me your violin display cases

Final product: Cherry with Kingwood corner splines. That's my father playing the instrument in the early 1920s. We did not attempt to rebuild the violin. It is basically in the same shape as when he l...
Papa Jim Woodworking 15 2,472 01-30-2023, 10:46 PM
  0 Thread: Tusked Trestle Table Design?
Post: RE: Tusked Trestle Table Design?

You and I and everybody on the forum knows that those breadboard ends are going to move.  Make sure the client knows that! Papa Jim
Papa Jim Woodworking 12 1,688 11-01-2022, 07:39 PM
  0 Thread: Show me your violin display cases
Post: RE: Show me your violin display cases

Just purple velvet as i recall. Here is one setup I liked:
Papa Jim Woodworking 15 2,472 10-31-2022, 08:06 AM
  0 Thread: Show me your violin display cases
Post: RE: Show me your violin display cases

My son sent me this picture of it for use in starting on the box. It's in pretty rough shape. I didn't think it would ever be playable again but hopefully it can be made presenable.
Papa Jim Woodworking 15 2,472 10-30-2022, 06:44 PM
  0 Thread: Show me your violin display cases
Post: RE: Show me your violin display cases

Tankwood Wrote: (10-26-2022, 04:51 PM) -- Could you post a photo of the fiddle and bow.. -- Don't have it yet, but my son is bringing it down Thanksgiving. Will post then. I have started wood selec...
Papa Jim Woodworking 15 2,472 10-26-2022, 07:43 PM
  0 Thread: Show me your violin display cases
Post: RE: Show me your violin display cases

Tankwood Wrote: (10-23-2022, 03:03 PM) -- I did make a wall hanger for my Son’s guitar..  Your thought  of making a display case for your families  fiddle and bow  would be cool..  An assessable w...
Papa Jim Woodworking 15 2,472 10-23-2022, 05:21 PM
  0 Thread: Show me your violin display cases
Post: Show me your violin display cases

My son has my father's ancient fiddle and bow, but like me no musical talent at all. But I have a grandson (age 13) that does play the violin. His uncle thinks it would be a cool idea for me to make a...
Papa Jim Woodworking 15 2,472 10-23-2022, 01:22 PM
  0 Thread: Sudoku box
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stav Wrote: (10-07-2022, 07:28 AM) -- It looks great. So, how many filled in squares did you start with? :D -- All of them! :laugh:
Papa Jim Woodworking 4 1,200 10-07-2022, 06:10 PM
  0 Thread: Sudoku box
Post: RE: Sudoku box

MstrCarpenter Wrote: (10-06-2022, 06:02 PM) -- That's awesome! Can you give us a sense of scale? It would make a very interesting card table. -- The box is 5-1/2" square. Individual pieces 5/8" squ...
Papa Jim Woodworking 4 1,200 10-06-2022, 06:39 PM
  0 Thread: Sudoku box
Post: Sudoku box

Instead of 9 numbers I used 9 different types of wood. Same rules. Only one of each type in each row, column and 3 x 3 square.
Papa Jim Woodworking 4 1,200 10-06-2022, 12:55 PM
  0 Thread: How to rehab a Unisaw front rail
Post: How to rehab a Unisaw front rail

I decided to show my Unisaw a little love by cleaning up the front rail. It doesn't seem like rocket science but I thought maybe the forum members might have some helpful suggestions. So far I've j...
Papa Jim Woodworking Power Tools 1 1,433 02-20-2022, 02:14 PM
  0 Thread: Type of wood
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Halfathumb Wrote: (09-27-2021, 01:54 PM) -- What wood is this? I originally thought WO when I stripped the spindle but the back appears to be different. Are they the same species? -- I'm not too go...
Papa Jim Woodworking 8 2,225 09-29-2021, 09:04 PM
  0 Thread: Router bit got me on Friday
Post: RE: Router bit got me on Friday

Thanks to everyone who posted. Shop accidents always leave you feeling a little stupid (at least mine have) and for that reason there is a tendancy not to make them public. These posts are a good remi...
Papa Jim Woodworking 31 12,229 07-28-2021, 10:26 AM

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