Box Miter & Square Shooting Boards
Video | 2 years ago
My old shooting boards have seen better days so I made two new fresh and clean ones. Many of you asked many times about the miter shooting board for box making so I decided to film it. They have no fancy features, just simple shooting boards made from birch...
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Making a Three Legged Shop Stool
Video | 2 years ago
A three legged stool with a hexagonal seat made from ash with three way joinery stretchers and wedged mortice and tenon. Since I've made the Sawhorse Workbench I kept some ash to built this stool for the workshop, finally it is done! Plans available on my w...
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The Low Workbench - Tabletop Mini Woodworking Bench
Video | 3 years ago
The Low Workbench, a 2023 edit! Available also for purchase on https://www.adrianpreda.com/shop Mini woodworking workbench based on the Japanese planing board with lots of features, surface planing against dovetail stops or between bench dogs, straight edge...
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Making a Classic Jewelry Box with a Sunburst Lid
Video | 3 years ago
Making a classic mitered box with walnut carcase and a zebrano sunburst lid attached with stop hinges. Inside a maple divider and a detachable tray. Finish with Danish oil and Renaissance Wax. The box is for sale here https://www.adrianpreda.com/shop as wel...
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Making Shoji Sliding Doors
Video | 3 years ago
A custom order of two Japanese shoji sliding doors made out of European Oak. Dimensions: ~2000x800 mm each door Simple Kumiko design, a small hip board on the bottom, sliding on rollers. The transom, with the upper track, didn't filmed its build, use to cov...
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The Japanese Workbench - a Planing Beam
Video | 5 years ago
A traditional Japanese planing beam, mostly used for thin and long pieces like shoji stiles and rails but it can be adapted and used also for other woodworking tasks. I've added two extra features, a V groove to hold the pieces at 45 degrees when using the ...
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Making a Cherry Shelf // Mid-Century Modern
Video | 5 years ago
A simple but stylish shelf to go with my previous made cherry desk. The design is inspired from the mid century modern Danish style of the 50's furniture with some details to match some elements and angles of the desk. The shelf is made from just four compo...
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Mount Fuji - Kumiko Landscape Panel - Japanese Woodworking
Video | 5 years ago
A landscape scene of the Mount Fuji and some nature around with various traditional Japanese Kumiko patterns. One goal of this project was to design a decent large panel with small triangles inside, enough to give a good resolution but also with sufficient ...
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Making Hexagonal Kumiko - Asanoha and Rindo Patterns
Guide | 5 years ago
Making two Hexagonal Kumiko patterns, Asanoha and Rindo, only by hand tools. (enable captions/subtitles for some explanations along the build) I am working on some bigger kumiko hexagonal projects that are made mostly with a table saw jig, and decided to ma...
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Shop Tour - A Modular Container Workshop
Video | 5 years ago
A quick tour of my new little workshop which I arranged in the last months. It is inside of a modular container, those insulated office/job site type ones, 6x3x3m (20x10x10') in dimensions. Still small but plenty of room for my work, and more natural light ...
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Sharpening my Woodworking Hand Tools
Guide | 6 years ago
■ A video showing my process and setup when sharpening the woodworking hand tools, like planes, chisels, marking instruments from my workshop. For now I have my sharpening setup a bit non organized, I deploy them every time when needed on my workbench, but ...
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Making a Cherry Desk - All Hand Tool Joinery
Video | 6 years ago
The Cherry Desk build from start to finish! From tree to finished product! I wanted to build a desk for myself from the cherry wood that I dried last year in the solar kiln. I had in mind a skinny legs modern looking desk with a drawer aside. The small thic...
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