Progress

July 11, 2010
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Spent a good chunk of yesterday getting the website transferred, photos uploaded, posts sorted out, links created, etc. Most of it works now. I’ve also been busy the past few months designing new pieces, focusing on bonsai style plant stands, and I intend to add them to the site over the next couple of weeks. [...]

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Carolina Adirondack Has a New Home

July 8, 2010

Just putting down a marker for the next few days. I’ve had our website on Typepad for forever, but I wanted more design flexibility and WordPress was the ticket. So I’ve migrated the site to WordPress and modified a Thesis theme. I’m hoping that the new site will be easier to navigate and easier on [...]

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Bookmatching Chair Legs

June 29, 2010
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Now that I’m laminating the chair legs on the Adirondack Chair, it’s nice to find a board with some interesting grain to bookmatch. Bookmatching just means that when I glue up three boards, then resaw them down the middle on the bandsaw to create two legs, I get two faces with similar figure.  That’s because [...]

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Garden Bench Legs

April 26, 2005
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In a previous post we described the floating top and the edge profile we use in our benches and tables. Today we look at the mitered leg. A mitered leg is formed when two long pieces of wood are cut along their length at a 45-degree angle, then the two 45-degree surfaces are glued together [...]

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Garden Bench Design Details

April 25, 2005

Our garden benches and plant stands incorporate a few design features I want to highlight. The first is the batten which you see peeking out at either end of the bench tops in the picture to the right. The slats of the bench top or garden stand are fastened to these battens. The battens are [...]

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Bonsai Plant Stand: Developing a Prototype

April 23, 2005
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I’ve been kicking around an idea for a low plant stand, pot stand, bonsai stand or knights-who-say-ni shrubbery display stand. Since this little stand is still in development, now’s a good time to describe the process we use in developing a prototype of a new product. The first step is the drawing. This was done [...]

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