Category Archive: Urethane

Jul 06 2015

Filling a Finish Can with Marbles

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July 6, 2015

While I was talking to the guy at Woodcraft about how to make a better bathroom cup, I also talked to him about why I had such bad luck with General Finishes Arm-R-Seal in the past. One thing he said I could try …

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Jul 06 2015

New Bathroom Cup

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Lathe, Maple, Purple Heartwood, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

July 6, 2015

A few years ago I made a small bathroom cup on my lathe. I turned it from a glued up block of maple, purple heartwood, and walnut. The cup lasted me about a year and a half and then the glue failed. I had used Titebond to glue the blank together …

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Jan 31 2013

New Wooden Wallet

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Baltic Birch Plywood, Miter Saw, Oscillating Sander, Padauk, Router Table, Table Saw, Thin Rip Jig, Urethane, Wooden Wallet

by benjamen

January 31, 2013

As of the last wooden wallet post, I was waiting for inspiration on how to hold the cards and cash at the same time. Last Fall, inspiration finally did come from the weirdest place: window hardware. I had been looking for some spring steel and I found what are called window controls. Window controls are springs …

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Sep 10 2012

Checkerboard And Checkers

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Belt Sander, Birch, Games, Maple, Miter Saw, Miter Sled, Paste Wax, Purple Heartwood, Table Saw, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

September 10, 2012

It happens to all of us, you start a project, something more important comes around, and you forget about the first project for a while. I started gluing up a checkerboard in March, then something came up and I ended up leaving the finished glue-up sitting flat on my bench for about a week. When I …

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Jul 10 2012

Heart Shaped Necklace Holder

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Drill Press, Jewelry, Orbital Sander, Oscillating Sander, Padauk, Paste Wax, Router Table, Scroll Saw, Urethane

by benjamen

July 10, 2012

Sick of my daughter asking me to unsnarl her tangle of necklaces, I decided to build her a necklace tree. After some thought, I figured the tree would be a bad idea because it would be just one more thing to clutter up the horizontal space in her room. So I changed …

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Jun 07 2012

Wooden Bookmark With Pressed Clover

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Bookmarks, Defthane, Posts by Finish, Table Saw, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

June 7, 2012

Either my daughter and I are very lucky, or we discovered a patch of mutated clover. While waiting for the school bus, we’ve found about 10 four-leaf clovers and 2 five-leaf clovers in a 2 foot square patch. I’ve pressed every one of them and the question has been: “what should …

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Apr 25 2012

Toy Car 3: Sports Theme

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Drill Press, Purple Heartwood, Router Table, Scroll Saw, Table Saw, Toy Cars, Urethane, Yellow Heartwood

by benjamen

April 25, 2012

I planned on making another toy car for my nephew and I wanted it to be different. My brother-in-law loves the Vikings, so by default his children do too, and the Vikings colors are purple and gold. I figured I’d make a car out of yellow and purple heartwood. Purple heartwood is a favorite contrast …

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Apr 02 2012

Toothbrush Holder

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Lathe, Maple, Purple Heartwood, Scroll Saw, Thin Rip Jig, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

April 2, 2012

We needed a new toothbrush holder. Our old one, a clear plastic tube with duckies floating in a mysterious blue liquid, was leaking. Also with it’s tiny holes, it just couldn’t hold the thicker handle toothbrushes that my children use sometimes use. I thought, “I could actually make a something useful on …

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Mar 28 2012

My First Bowl

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Bowls, Lathe, Miter Sled, Table Saw, Urethane, Walnut

by benjamen

March 28, 2012

A few weeks ago, I turned my first bowl. I wanted to make something on my new mini-lathe, so I found a slab of walnut in my wood stash and decided to make a bowl. I did some things right, some things wrong, and learned a lot about turning in the process. …

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Mar 13 2012

Tablet Stand

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Leopard Wood, Router Table, Table Saw, Urethane

by benjamen

March 13, 2012

I made a permanent mount in the kitchen for my Android tablet a few months ago, but most of the time the tablet doesn’t live there. I find myself using it a lot around the rest of the house, strangely enough even when I’m at the computer where desk space is at …

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