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 …
Category Archive: Purple Heartwood
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Sep 10 2012
Checkerboard And Checkers
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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Jun 18 2012
Turning Some More Glue-Ups
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Apr 25 2012
Toy Car 3: Sports Theme
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 10 2012
Homemade Dowel Cutter
A few weeks ago, over on G+ Matt Ricketts posted a dowel cutter he made. This was a timely post for me because I was looking to make a few purple heartwood dowels for a toy car I’m in the process of finishing. His dowel cutter was a series of holes drilled …
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Apr 02 2012
Toothbrush Holder
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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Feb 26 2012
Resawing Safely on the Table Saw.
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Jul 13 2011
Ladder Toy
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