tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68158677132342435462024-03-24T18:32:09.371-05:00First Light Woodworking - UnpluggedRick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-65625823484685931482016-09-16T20:28:00.001-05:002016-09-16T20:28:54.320-05:00A Name Change, A New Look, and an Unplugged Approach To Woodworking<br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">After over 30 years of building various styles of furniture using mostly power tools, jigs, fixtures, etc. I've decided to pull the plug in my shop. I was given a Stanley block plane that was rather dull. I had no idea how to sharpen it. Went to a local Woodworking Show and bought a Tormek Sharpening System, sharpened that blade, and never looked back. To me, that one sharp tool opened the door to a handful of wonderful tools. now I do my blades with Arkansas stones and oil, works great every time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Over time I started to use more hand tools and saws in my work but always relied on the table saw band saw, and planer for that 'quick' sizing of stock. I've though about this unplugged approach for a while and I found the inspiration to make the move after reading Tom Fidgen's books and most recently Joshua A. Klein's Mortise & Tenon magazine to unplug, take the time to feel more connected to my work. With a few exceptions, it h make the as always been more the journey than the destination, I suspect this to be no difference. I'm looking forward to it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">The plan is to first move anything with a plug out of the shop to the other side of the wall. I will have my Shaker Bench I built, a nice carving bench I purchased years ago, and will reorganize the saw till, plane till, and get everything relocated in one area that is easy to reach. I have a project from Tom's book to start on as well as finishing the Spice Cabinet shown in other posts.</span></div>
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Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-56855348934515104302016-08-25T15:47:00.001-05:002016-08-25T15:47:08.798-05:00Spice Cabinet Progress- Back At It<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>A few different sizes of old dental picks will help clean the scrap trimmings out of the grooves.</b></div>
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<b>The holly stringing needs to be sized before gluing in the grooves. A few passes in this tool does the trick.</b></div>
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<b>Some of the tools used to scribe the lines. I purchased a set made by Lie-Nielsen for this work, I've seen others made these tools, I'm just not that crafty. If you purchase, get the extension for the scribe tool to get to the larger radii.</b></div>
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Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-64395387585036946072014-10-29T15:56:00.001-05:002014-10-29T15:56:50.378-05:00Pennsylvania Spice Box- some progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tools I used to make the moulding are shown below. A pair of #6 and #8 hollow and rounds, a 7/8" rabbet plane, and a Stanley #66 beading plane which came in handy to cut the bead on the face of the crown moulding.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mouldings were a challenge to make as I had never tried doing them by hand before. Sometime ago I had purchased the book shown below with the intentions of learning how to do just that. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a very well written and easy to understand book by Matt Bickford and it removed a lot of the mystery of the process of making various profiles with moulding planes. It's not as easy as it looks but not impossible. As with most tasks using hand tools, patience truly is a virtue. </span><br />
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Next step is to get the moulding attached to the cabinet and work on the feet. After that the door, then the intricate holly wood inlay. Drawers will be the last step. Will share some more at the next milestone.Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-85233787240963391562014-09-19T06:56:00.000-05:002014-09-19T06:56:25.429-05:00Pennsylvania Spice Box - Beginning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Summer fun is about over and it is time to get back in the shop and get busy on some projects that were interrupted earlier in the year. These few photos are the beginnings of a spice box following the plans by Steve Latta. Constructed of walnut with poplar as the secondary wood. Overall size is 22"x15"x11" deep and features 11 drawers. This style chest was used among the 18th century Quakers in PA. A small chest but a ton of hand crafted details. Minimum power and maximum hand tools will be used for this project, I will post progress as it happens. Excited to get this one going.</div>
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The chest features a number of hidden compartments such as the slot at the top used to store documents. There is a false back to the center drawer for example, accessed by lifting the back panel and so forth. Another feature of this box is the line and berry inlay on the door. Very thin Holly strips are used for this and the grooves are all cut by hand as well. Hopefully when it is all said and down mine will look as good as the finished product shown above.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her main request was she wanted reclaimed wood. With some help from a couple of contacts, I located some reclaimed quarter sawn white oak from a guy in SE Indiana who tears down barns and not only sells the lumber, but produces some outstanding furniture from it. Most of what he has is 100 to 150 years old from barns and other buildings in the SE Indiana, Northern Kentucky, and the SW Ohio area.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A good part of this entire build was making the mortise and tenon joinery. The rails shown above are for the lower shelf, 4 required.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The finish on the wood is two coats of Tried & True Danish Oil. This really brought out the character of this wood. I really enjoyed working with this reclaimed lumber. Hard to explain but this reclaimed white oak seem to cut a lot easier than the kiln dried material I am used to and the "defects", nail holes, worm tracks, knots etc, made it look all that much better.</span><br />
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My neighbor asked if I could build this cooler for his sister’s birthday present with no instructions as to what he wanted for a design, so I designed as I built. Some minor surgery on the cooler was required, removal of the handles, hinges mostly, and some slight modifications to the sides to square up the chest. </div>
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Completed the second of two nightstands for our bedroom. This project has been on the list for longer than I can remember so I am getting closer to finishing the bedroom furniture. The cabinet sides, top, and door frame are solid cherry. The sub top, divider, and bottom panels are Baltic birch edged with 1/4" cherry strips. The hand cut dovetails are still a challenge for me but I am getting better, practice makes perfect I guess.</div>
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This is the finished base prior to finishing. The corner blocks add strength and also a way to attach the cabinet.<br />
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Edge jointing the cherry to glue up panels for the cabinet with a No.6 which for me is a good size plane for this type of work. The Stanley No.386 attachment works great in keeping things square.<br />
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Assembled cabinet with the door installed. The hinges make the door adjustment a breeze.<br />
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Another view of the finished nightstand. The finish on the cherry is Tried & True oil, 2 coats, and I add a light coat of wax. The base is finished with General Finishes Black. I wanted a nice contrast between the base and the cabinet.<br />
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The next project for the bedroom will be a dresser that matches the style and finish of the nightstands. Need to get this done before it warms up and the golf courses open up :)Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-36290953444680309662012-11-19T16:11:00.000-06:002012-11-19T16:11:06.015-06:00Bench Build - Complete !!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Shaker style bench is now complete and ready for use (officially), I was using it prior to the finish coat for some other small projects.</div>
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The finished top dimension is 26" x 83", I left it a little wider than the plan to allow for a couple of round bench holes to accept holdfasts for the Moxon vise. Even at that width, there is still plenty of room all around the bench. I used Tried and True wipe-on oil for all of the unpainted pieces.</div>
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Front view shows the square dog hole strip that runs the entire length of the bench. I do have a few more bench dogs to build, and the plans are clear on how to do that, even though it is not the most exciting part of the build.</div>
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One thing I can say is this bench is solid, and heavy! I had a chance to edge join a board and I detected absolutely no movement at all, solid as a rock. This bench was a pleasure to build. The quality of the hardware and plans are outstanding. I had some challenges along the way, but what fun would it be if it was easy? I learned a lot along the way and would be glad to share if someone is thinking about building this bench.Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-86850698271783830972012-10-20T09:00:00.000-05:002012-10-20T09:00:35.030-05:00Bench Build - Next Steps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The bench build continues to go well, I have finished the parts for the front glide vise and I my goal is to get this installed and adjusted this weekend.</div>
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The parts above are hard maple, the chop was a challenge. It is 2 5/8" thick at the top and tapers down to 1 9/16". I tried to resaw the glue up on my band saw, but it was a struggle, so I stopped, got out the #40 scrub plane, the #6 jointer, and the #4 smoothing plane and had my workout for the day/week/month.<br />
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I went ahead and painted the unit, oiled the knobs and door stops and the bottom foot of the bench. The plan calls for a 4/4 foot I believe and I felt that would make the bench lower that I like so I used simple 2x4 and with the thickness of the top will put the height where I want it. I can touch up any dings later. The finish is General Finishes Milk Paint Bayberry Green, hardware supplied in the Bench crafted hardware pack.<div>
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The remainder of the work will be on the top and the tail vise. I have all the maple I need barring any major screw ups, and I had to use hard vs. the preferred soft maple. My wood monger in Indiana did not have a good selection of clear soft maple so rather than wait I switched to the hard maple. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next step. Front Leg Vise construction and installation, final fit, and finish, of the drawers and doors, and painting the cabinet in a yet to be determined color of Milk Paint.</span>Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-91377735943782653612012-08-13T18:06:00.002-05:002012-08-13T20:37:45.983-05:00Back At It..Bench Build Underway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally getting started on the new bench for my shop and am excited with the progress to date. With respect to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Monsieur</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> </span>Roubo, Shaker is my style and I am building it using the plans, and hardware, purchased from Benchcrafted. The level of detail in their drawings is outstanding, the hardware package is complete, and the 3D available in a download are a plus.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you that follow this blog, and others who stop
by from time to time, I thought I would let folks know that it will be awhile
before I post another project. We have sold our home, and shop, in West
Tennessee and moving back home to the Greater Cincinnati area after being here
for the last 9 years. I moved here
for a work transfer and have been retired now for 18 months. </span></div>
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course is family, 3 children, 4 grand children, brothers, sisters, nieces, and
nephews. We were fortunate in this
economy to sell this house so quickly (less than 3 weeks) and the home we are
purchasing was under construction and we’ll be moving in Christmas week.</span></div>
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now, my “projects” involve packing tape, boxes, and filler paper, but as others
have said, it is giving me a chance to clean out and see what exactly I have
collected over the past 9 years. </span></div>
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workbench as well, that will be the first project in the new shop, the
Benchcrafted Shaker style bench so I will post when that project gets underway.</span></div>
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marked my space. The type of work
I do and the increased use of had tools will allow me to set up a nice area to
build the things I enjoy, and the best part is I will be able to teach my
grandson’s the joy of working with wood. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along with the jointer, the table saw has now found a good home and I have no intentions of replacing it. As I continue to change my work habits, I found I can do everything I need to do with my 14" band saw and my array of hand saws. I have started building another saw bench using this method and I am really enjoying it. Along with the table saw, the buyer also purchased my workbench. It was a fine work bench patterned after the Essential Workbench plans in FWW a few years back. It was big, and very heavy. Since we decided to sell the house here in Tennessee and move back to the Greater Cincinnati area, I saw this as a great opportunity to build the Benchcrafted Shaker Bench and will do so as my first project once we are settled in up north. I have the plans, and the hardware is on order. I intend on keeping my DeWalt 3 head planer for shop use when needed, and some other associated power tools used for home improvements and for the kids to borrow :) Anything else I sell will be some excess hand planes and some wooden planes I don't want, don't use, and don't want to move. I will post those later.</span>Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-65745451161468840572011-10-29T07:06:00.001-05:002011-10-29T07:49:52.809-05:00Goodbye JET Jointer<div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last weekend I said goodbye to my JET 6" jointer watching it go down the driveway in the back of it's new owners truck. Though I considered my woodworking habits to be "blended" I found that I still relied on the power tools more than I liked and with the encouragement of others, I have decided to make turn around the corner to going unplugged. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The table saw is next, it is listed for sale, that leaves me with a Dewalt 13" planer, a Delta 14" band saw, a Delta dust collector, Rikon lathe, and a Ryobi drill press. The planer would be next, I think I will keep the band saw, lathe, and the drill press for work outside the shop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have an almost full arsenal of saws, sharp, and ready, a nice selection of hand planes collected over the years, also sharp and ready.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was strange watching that jointer leave the shop, I used it off an on probably for the last 8 years or so, but it is being replaced with a very nice 30" wooden jointer plane, and since I have been doing a lot of the work lately with hand tools, the conversion doesn't seem as scary as I thought. The tables you see in the post below were made using hand cut mortise and tenons, the tops and shelves fiished with hand planes, and the inner drawer supports cut by hand.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since she wanted them painted I used poplar. Tops are glued-up panels. These tables are my design and it is really one of the few times I've built a project of this size without a preprinted plan. A skill builder for sure and I did enjoy doing this project. She really liked the finished product and that makes it all the better.</span>Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-19122337579353245682011-10-15T17:15:00.001-05:002011-10-15T17:15:30.897-05:00You're Getting to be a Habit with Me....<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of recent tool purchases have changed the way I do work, and as the song goes, you're getting to be a habit with me. I first received the Evenfall Studios Shooting Board a month or so ago and other than just trying it out, I really didn't have a project that would require it's use. While working on the project you see below, I bought Capt. America, a beautiful 16" tenon saw made Bad Axe Tool Works at the WIA this year, used it cut tenons of course, but also to x-cut the frame pieces. This is where things changed for me, an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> epiphany of sorts.</span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A client in Cincinnati ordered this settee after considering two separate chairs. Here is a shot of the finished product. I applied French Gray Milk Paint with the outdoor additive and chose General Finishes Environ 450 outdoor poly finish for added protection in the harsh weather up north. I though I would share some of the step by step construction photos to encourage those to jump in and give this type of outdoor furniture a try. I chose pine for this project verses poplar.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Having built one of these about a year ago, I made patterns for all the curved parts in anticipation of building another. This saves a lot of time when repeating a project just by tracing the pattern to the wood. Adhesive is Titebond III with galvanized bolts, nuts and washers. </span></div>
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Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-3546413131406196962011-04-26T12:15:00.002-05:002011-04-26T12:33:28.126-05:00Quilt Display CaseThis case was commissioned by a customer who wants to display and protect her keepsake quilts.<br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The case is 29" wide x 19" deep x 21'H and is constructed of Red Oak and finished with General Finishes Shaker Maple and the New General Finishes Water-based Urethane. If you haven't tried this finish yet I can highly recommend it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yF0o2qKUOaA/Tbb7vEsEsoI/AAAAAAAAAOA/G8gVPy8CxdI/s1600/DSC_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yF0o2qKUOaA/Tbb7vEsEsoI/AAAAAAAAAOA/G8gVPy8CxdI/s320/DSC_0003.JPG" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2_5Ei0vB2-I/Tbb702MseWI/AAAAAAAAAOE/BFJPwabMqyw/s1600/DSC_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2_5Ei0vB2-I/Tbb702MseWI/AAAAAAAAAOE/BFJPwabMqyw/s320/DSC_0004.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Frame and panel construction (glass on front and both sides, oak ply on the back and bottom). </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The plugs you see on the front are only decorative. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Rick Lasitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890221174161657836noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815867713234243546.post-60661660083407409302011-04-11T06:41:00.003-05:002011-04-11T09:43:57.961-05:00Chair - Repaired<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Drilled the holes careful to keep the original angle of the back. When almost through, I flipped the bow over and drilled through the top to minimize tear out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iX00UyCI5gY/TaLlD5xj3_I/AAAAAAAAAN0/mSPFCVELGAw/s1600/DSC_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iX00UyCI5gY/TaLlD5xj3_I/AAAAAAAAAN0/mSPFCVELGAw/s320/DSC_0007.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tapered the spindles to allow the bow to mount properly in the seat. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EioBnITWcAg/TaLlAKw2_3I/AAAAAAAAANw/1-YfTP9d6W4/s1600/DSC_0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EioBnITWcAg/TaLlAKw2_3I/AAAAAAAAANw/1-YfTP9d6W4/s320/DSC_0006.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Everything glued and assembled. The spindles as well as the bow are wedged to be sure it stays together for quite a long time.</span></div><div><br />
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