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By James Krenov

ISBN-10: 0941936511

ISBN-13: 9780941936514

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James Krenov's soft, lyrical cupboards have encouraged a iteration of wooden craftsmen, as has his impassioned insistence that one do his absolute best paintings, it doesn't matter what. during this quantity, first released in 1979, Krenov invitations the reader into his workshop, the place he stocks his strategies and uncompromising method of craftsmanship, besides innovations approximately his paintings and its position on the planet. photograph sequences express how Krenov composes a cupboard at once within the wooden, with out dimensioned drawings. He additionally discusses operating with shop-sawn veneers, the means of becoming curved doorways, and the issues of accuracy and blunders. The booklet concludes with a close exploration of 3 furnishings initiatives: a curved show off cupboard, a writing desk with drawer, and a chess desk.

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Cut the brace to size. Lay out angles using a marker and rafter square; then, clamp the square in place as a guide for your circular saw when cutting the angled ends. ____~ ~~--- 14'h"---~ 5%" ···-------·-----. ' .... ' ........................ ~ ~o. TOP VIEW ® TOP VIEW IJ EXPLODED VIEW 1" tenon 2 X S'h" through mortise 27" ® ¥a" hole Use a marking gauge to quickly and accurately lay out the tenons, and later, the mortises. You can run a pencil in the scribe mark to make it more visible. 72" out the tenons on the box arm back arm (C) 2 (B)Lay and [Drawing 1].

The separator-box top (E) and glue and screw it in place 6Cut F]. Cut the separator-box bottom (F) to 7 size and attach it to the separator-box assembly (A-E) [Photo [Drawing 1] [PhotoG]. Next, construct the filter box We sized this project to work wit/1 a Grizzly 1-hp, model G0710 dust collector [Sources] that stands about 13311" tall. You may have to alter the height of the filter box to accommodate a different dust collector. 30 Cut the vertical cleats (G), horizontal cleats (H), and back (I) [Materials List, Drawing 2].

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