Questions tagged [woodworking]
Taking wood or lumber and making it into a variety of things from carvings to furniture. Woodworking encapsulates many more specific genres like carving, joinery, carpentry, cabinetry and furniture making. Questions are welcome about the wood, tools and skills associated to working wood.
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What are food safe finishes for woodworking projects, e.g. turned bowls?
There are many different products to finish your projects with. What types are food safe and what should one look out for when finishing a project that needs to be food safe?
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What kind of lathe would I need if I want to turn pens?
Pen turning is a fairly common focus for people wanting to learn to turn wood. Pens are small and 'appear' easy to make. Having the right equipment can make it a simpler process. So what kind of a ...
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How can I safely cut pieces off a small wooden cube?
I would like to make some small wooden cuboctahedron, that is something of this shape:
They should be about 2cm high. So, my idea is to take a long wooden piece (2cm x 2cm x 200cm) and cut some small ...
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How can I protect the mixed-media surface of my table?
I asked an artist to paint on a table. So, I have now a wooden board (90x150cm) with a nice drawing/painting (he used different types of paints, pens, sprays, etc.)
Since it is a table I'd like to use ...
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How can I mount a polished stone to wood?
I have a finished wooden walking stick. I'd like to mount a few polished gemstones to it. What is the best product to use for mounting stones to wood surface?
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How to prepare and carry out drawing line art on a tree round?
Our business is an outdoor children's nursery and we thought it'd be nice to make a sign with our logo on a large tree round rather than printed on plastic, since it better reflects the outdoor/...
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What type of thin or light wood is suitable for making box joints?
I want to make a wooden box using box joints. The box should be cube-shaped with sides of around 10cm and one side open. This is my first time to make box joints.
I need the box to be as light as ...
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How to avoid / deal with rough edges after painting plywood?
I want to make a plywood owl lamp similar to this one. After sawing the pieces and polishing them, I tried painting them using watercolours. The colour looks good, but the wood has become rough on the ...
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Is alder wood too hard to whittle?
I'm very new to wood carving, and have bought my first two tools, both Beaver Craft whittling knives. I've seen a couple videos on YouTube of a man doing tutorials and it looks like his knife, without ...
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How do I bring the grain out on soft wood?
I'm going to make some small scale props and accessories using soft wood. Possibly balsa or popsicle sticks. I want to make the grain swell up and come out so that it can be dry-brushed.
Essentially ...
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How do I approach cutting a new marquetry inlay to fit the space in a metal bracelet
I have a metal bracelet with inlaid strips of wood approximately 0.5mm thick. Unfortunately I have lost one, so am planning to replace it.
The two challenges I have (aside from sourcing wood that ...
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How to make a wooden needle?
I am recently exploring a new craft: Nålebinding. I started using regular large plastic needles. But sadly, these are a little bit too small and soft for this craft, so the eyelets often break.
I ...
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Fastening thin pieces of wood with a flat profile
I have a great idea for a geometric lampshade that I would like to build. Think of something roughly resembling a geodesic dome. It will be made of individual triangular panels of roughly the ...
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How to permanently bend bamboo?
I notice that rakes made out of bamboo have curved tines (as shown below).
How can I permanently bend bamboo like there tines?
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How can I dye MDF?
I have a bunch of sheets of 2mm-thick MDF that I'd like to dye black for use as a guitar headstock overlay. Since this would typically be laminated to the headstock and then trimmed flush, its colour ...
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How to carve a side texture of a book on a wooden box?
I am looking to carve the book side texture shown on this wooden carving of a small book:
but on the sides of pinewood box measuring 14 x 9cm x 4cm. This is the area I wish to carve on:
However, I'm ...
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What kind of resin can be used to fill a gap in a piece of wood?
If filling a piece of natural wood with grooves in with resin - clear or coloured - what is the best kind to use? This would need to allow for the wood to be used as a table top.
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How can I achieve a strong and reliable bond between wood and copper/brass for my wooden stick production?
I am a producer of wooden canes, but some of my customers have complained about the loose and insecure connection between wood and copper/brass. I want to address this issue and achieve a strong and ...
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How long to dry juniper before working with it?
I would like to carve something out of juniper cut down last week. I intend to make something like a hiking stick or some small decoration pieces, so nothing big or critical.
How long should the ...
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Can Tea Staining Be Used on Wood That Has Already Had an Oil-Based Stain?
I am working on a project where I need to stain a birch dowel to a dark brown natural wood color. I tried my normal Varathane Dark Walnut stain (an oil-based stain which has worked really well for me ...
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How easy to cut a turn light?
How easy would it be to cut an item like the one shown below on a laser cutter?
I might want to cut out such an item for Christmas.
As you can see I’m just decorating it with glitter at this point:
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Push-to-open lid for box using a special latch?
Imagine an open topped rectangle box: it has a bottom and four walls. An interior box fits or nests inside that, and, when seated, is flush with the top.
I want to find a latch/device so that I can ...
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How do I get reddish scorch marks with a laser cutter?
I'm trying to burn some nametags, but I'm getting inconsistent results.
In the image below, the tag on the right, with the reddish scorch marks, is what I'd like.
The tags on the left, with the ...
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How to Carve Tapered Recess into Wood
I am looking to carve a tapered recess into a piece of wood, like that of the center element in the picture below:
What is the best way to do this?
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Best archival product for wood panels to oil paint on?
I'm considering painting with oil colours on wood panels, but I'm a little concerned about the known drawback involved, i.e. warping.
Not being an expert, I watched some tutorials on YouTube and ...
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How to create a perfumed scent box
I am looking to create different scented wooden boxes for a business idea I have in mind. However, not having any experience in scented objects I wanted to know what would be the best way to go about ...
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What are possible sources of wood pieces from for making musical instruments?
I've always wanted to make electric guitars myself. However, it seems a bit hard to find the right supply of wood to do so, as musical instruments usually require naturally dried wood pieces for ...
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Wooden camping utensils?
Ozark Trail has a set of camping utensils. Now my question is how might it be duplicated in wood by a wittler? If your not sure what I’m talking about check out the name @ Amazon.com
Here’s a better ...
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Capsule making?
Is it possible make letter capsules in wood or fabric? I just ordered some plastic versions of this item from amazon.com and was just wondering if it was a possible to make them myself.
These are ...
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