Wood crafts. Page 4

The eighth of March is approaching, and it's time to buy gifts for your ladies. Most men, according to statistics, in addition to a bouquet of flowers, buy jewelry as a gift to their women. Rings, earrings, pendants. In addition to the main gift, you must

Wing bolts and nuts, also known as daisies, are part of many applications that require fast tightening of threads without the use of wrenches. They are found on sale only in specialized stores, so when

When working with many soft sheet materials, trimming is usually done with a straight edge knife. Without proper skill, such a cut turns out to be curved, since the blade does not enter the material at a right angle. As a consequence, at the end

Winter this year does not particularly please us with frosty days. Especially in the southern regions. Slush and dirt on roads and sidewalks have not disappeared this year since the beginning of autumn. After a walk, or coming home from work, in warm weather, the shoes are covered

Wood is a very beautiful and useful material for humans. The more wood products, the better for people. You can make them yourself and, if you are smart, they will also become a decoration in every home or apartment.

Today I received an order from my mother: to make a trough for chopping cabbage. My parents used to have, I remember, a special trough for this, about two meters long. As soon as the frosts began, the cabbage was cut and the rubles were cut into small crumbs for several hours in a row,

We used to build play structures out of chairs, pillows and blankets. We had our own secret hiding places. Today we have grown up, but we have our own children. So why not help them and build a real children's house? Perhaps this is at least

For the simplest lathe in the store you will have to pay several thousand rubles. But it can be made from a drill without much expense, and you don’t have to be a highly qualified specialist to do this.

To give an untreated board a perfectly smooth surface, sanding is required.If you do this with regular sandpaper or a hand sander, the surface will be smooth, but not even. To simultaneously achieve the correct plane and remove

In the design of this grinding machine, an important place is given to rollers or rollers. The drive roller sets the abrasive belt in motion, the tension roller picks up the slack, the driven rollers hold and impart uniform tension to the abrasive belt.

When making furniture, for example, a dining table, it is necessary to choose a method for connecting the drawer (plank frame) with the legs. Let's consider one of the simple but reliable options on how to do this without using additional fastening

Surely many who have ever tried to make a prefabricated wooden frame remember how difficult it is to fit all four corner joints exactly. Under normal conditions, without specialized tools, even after manual adjustment, gaps remain,

An ordinary awl is a fairly universal tool. They don't do any kind of work. This includes punching wood/metal, piercing soft materials such as leather, fabric or even plastic, marking on metal, etc. Convenience in many ways

In the process of connecting wooden parts with screws, screws or self-tapping screws, sometimes it becomes necessary to install them inconspicuously, either for decorative purposes, or for safety and ease of use in the future. Below we will consider

Even a factory-made portable table saw costs several thousand rubles. In order not to waste money, such a tool can be made from an angle grinder (angle grinder) and at the same time its technical and operational characteristics will be

When making wooden products, you often have to join parts at an angle of 90 degrees. In order not to waste time on installation and subsequent control of the accuracy of the connection, we will make a simple clamp that will ensure the speed and accuracy of such an operation.

Surely each of us at school took labor lessons that were devoted to turning. They sharpened not God knows what, usually they were handles for files, small figures of some kind of candlesticks or something like that. We offer again

The most famous tool for making both straight and curved cuts is a hand jigsaw. But it can also be done mechanically. Moreover, this does not require special skills, materials or costs.

There are never too many drawers, shelves or boxes for storing small tools and hardware in a home workshop. No matter how much you make them, they will still be filled to capacity. And everything would be fine, but sometimes their fixed location in

I would like to address the issue of choosing a tool for a novice carpenter. If a person decides to make something on a weekend or in the evening in the kitchen, what should he have first? What tools, what quality, where is the best place to buy them.

Great item to keep guests busy. You give them a puzzle and ask them things like, “how did they put the nail in there?” Naturally there will be a heated debate, which will be very interesting to watch, knowing the secret of this puzzle. In principle, you can practically guess

Dowels are often used to connect various wooden structures; this is a universal and effective carpentry technique. But it is not always possible to buy them, and to make them yourself you need to have a lathe - an expensive special one.

A machine or drilling vice is indispensable for working with small parts in any workshop or garage. In this master class I will tell you how I made a vice for a drilling machine with my own hands. Considering that it is often necessary to clamp parts

One of the common and very reliable carpentry connections is the tongue and groove. However, in the absence of a router, it is often ignored, since manual cutting of grooves requires real fiddling. Let's look at how to make grooves a little faster.