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This is Jenny’s big semester: two course each at two different colleges 140 miles apart. But we’ve got to do what we have to in order to get graduated.  Anyway, that means I’ll be cutting back on the saw to help her out. This is the slow season, so it’s not that bad, and it’s [...]

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Yesterday I went “whole-hog” into the dog boxes. I’ve been keeping the scraps from the animal puzzles, and it was time to get rid of them.  So I took a box full of scrap and ran it through the drum sander, getting everybody to the same thickness. I spent most of the rest of the [...]

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Just some ramblings…
This morning before and after Church I was able to draw a Papillon dog circle. It takes about 2 hours to draw one, and about 30 minutes to cut a set out.  Cutting out the side pieces takes about an hour per box, and assembling one box takes about 15 minutes.  That means [...]

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In case anyone is curious as to the patterns I’ve been using for the dog boxes, I’ve gone ahead and put up a draft pattern on the server.  The link to it is here: Corgi Modular Box Pattern. The instructions are rather sparce, but combined with the pictures here you should be able to work [...]

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This weekend I’ve been (slowly!) working on the dog boxes. So far I’ve got 4 types of lids, shown below. I want to get as many different ones as I can before the show next weekend; variety seems to make things sell better. The corgi and lab are my patterns; the other two came from [...]

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I’ve been working on the boxes the last few days. After a little altercation between the finger and a blade, I’m having to refrain from precision work (e.g., sheeps table) for a couple of days. The cut isn’t bad, but think “Paper cut”–painful!  The boxes, however, are very forgiving of blade wandering, so I can [...]

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Dog folks seem to like their dogs–that’s one of the lessons from the Animal Puzzle sales last year.  So the trick is to find new items that might be interesting to them.  I saw some dog-heads in circles being sold be Wooden Teddy Bear, but one of the more popular breeds here, the Corgis, was [...]

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Like I mentioned in the previous post, 2008 is wrapping up with only a couple weekends at the street market to go. It’s time to start thinking of Christmas 2009 !
I ordered a book of Dog Head patterns. One thing I noticed this year is that dog people like their breeds, while [...]

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This latest box combines the modular sides/corners with the weave.  The corners are simply squares with slots cut in two sides; the weave is a simple 3-post weave with tabs at each end to fit into the corners. What makes this one unique is that the weave pattern is identical throughout the box.  For the [...]

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I haven’t decided what to call these boxes, so the name may (and probably will ) change over these posts.  Please bear with me!
Anyway, these are parts for the Eagle 5″x5″ boxes.  I cut out the sides and corners for two boxes, all from scrap leftover from animal puzzles. These boxes really don’t take [...]

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