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Shoe Bench – a problem in need of a solution
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe Bench 1 I live in a house with 7 people, 5 of them teenagers and 3 of the females. We have a LOT of shoes in our home. We don’t wear shoes in...
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Shoe Bench Ideas
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe Bench 2 So now I know I want a shoe bench, the next step is to see what I can find. I like to make things but if it turns out I can find the...
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Shoe Bench
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe Bench 3 My shoe bench is going to be the cubby style, flat on the top to sit, little cubbies all in a row to organize shoes. First things...
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Shoe Bench Joints
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe Bench 4 If you download and try to use the Sketchup design from the previous blog entry a couple of things changed in the final...
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Shoe Bench Flattening
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe Bench 5 I looked at various woods for the bench and ended up deciding on poplar, why, because it was relatively cheap, and I could get it in...
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Shoe Bench Joints – Cutting
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe Bench 6 Ok, here comes the interesting part, not the hardest part, but the most interesting part. Getting all of the joints to line up and...
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Shoe Bench Assembly
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe Bench 7 If the fun part was the joinery, the miserable part was the assembly. The bench has 22 sliding dovetails, two 12 inch half blind...
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Shoe Bench – Finish Planing
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe Bench 8 Got the clamps off and now it’s time to clean up the glue joints and prep the surfaces for finish. First thing to do was remove the...
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Shoe Bench – Finish and Finished
Here is the original blog post over at Lumberjocks.com Shoe bench 9 To finish the bench I used my favorite finish, a few coats of thinned tung oil followed by paste wax. I like an oil finish because I...
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