It all started here while wondering how many people have used the back-side of their bench hook as a cutting board.
Greetings. I’m Peter Turner. I design and build furniture at my home in South Portland, Maine. I’ve written several articles for Fine Woodworking and am on the cover of #203 with a blanket chest that I made. I have a few projects and tips here on this site that one can find above. I have just started writing a blog that’s connected to my website. As woodworking content slips in, you’ll also be able to find it here. This is my first entry for The Woodworking Life.
Please click each photo to follow my thoughts.
www.petersturner.com
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It all started here while wondering how many people have used the back-side of their bench hook as a cutting board.
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I have scraps of mattboard around because I cut the matts for my portfolio at shows. The idea for this set-up came from a former employer. You can almost see that the cherry sticks are held in their dados by a small, counter-sunk steel screw, so it can break down.
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I use theses scraps as cauls. They are so light that they often stay in place using just one piece of drafting tape to hold.
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With heavier bar clamps I typically go for wooden cauls but these k-bodies have never dented and give plenty of pressure for this glue-up.
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This 5 foot bench will be juried next week as my submission for the 2009 Furniture Masters' auction. This is the dry fit for the rungs on both ends. I can now take an inside measurement to get the interior length of my cross-struts. Off I go.
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I love your website. I wished my portfolio pages worked the way yours do.
Is it possible to see the article from this site? The article says click the photos. When I hit Launch Gallery I get a single picture that take me nowhere. Am I supposed to go to his site? If so, why is there no link. Why is there no explanation. You expect the reader to deduce what to do by finding that everything on your page is a dead end? Google is free and quicker. This is the antithesis of user friendly compared with what else is available. I am shocked that this was put out to your readers.I understand this is woodworking which I expect is not a lucrative enterprise, and it is difficult to make it as user-friendly as other industries. But you can't put out something that doesn't work well and expect to thrive. You have to revamp this somehow. Downscale the articles perhaps. Maybe you are trying to do too much. But whatever is on the site has to work.
cmacme46 - When a website with thousands of articles gets overhauled some content is bound to wind up missing. The website got overhauled in September, so yes, that has happened from time to time. We aren't trying to do too much. You are just to the first one to mention a problem on a seven year old article. Also, the gallery was and is working. Maybe it was just a server error at the time.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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