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New Coffee Art Series

I’ve been working on a few new pieces of wall art made from coffee importer bags.  These things are so cool!  I recently picked up a few bags, but wasn’t sure exactly what I would do with them.  The visuals on the bag caught my eye and they just have this cool coffee shop vibe that I wanted to come up with a way to experience.  Then I ran across another piece of decorative wall art printed on burlap, the two ideas collided and here are my first two pieces…

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SketchUp Tutorial: Adding Pocket Holes to Your Models

I’m in the middle of creating plans for another piece of furniture that has a number of pocket hole joints.  I thought it might be helpful for some of my woodworking readers who also like to use SketchUp to put together a really quick tutorial on putting 3D renderings of pocket holes into your models.  This comes in handy where you have joints where you’re using pocket holes on multiple sides and you want to drill your holes so that the screws don’t hit each other.

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How to Replace the Capacitor on a Craftsman Radial Arm Saw

Here’s a video on how I fixed an annoying problem with my Sears Craftsman model 113 radial arm saw.  I was having intermittent problems with the saw blade not spinning and the motor just humming.  After a couple projects, I couldn’t get the blade to spin at all and when I turned the saw on, it would trip the breaker.  I was able to get it working again by replacing the capacitor on the motor and shot this video to show you how to do that repair.

 

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DIY Emerson Dresser – How To Build

When building my Kendal Extra Wide Dresser, I was also simultaneously building another smaller Emerson 3 drawer dresser.  This classic dresser style is so versatile and can be used in just about any setting for either children or adults and is a great project for someone just getting into woodworking with maybe one or two previous projects under their belt.  While I stained the Kendal dresser for a more rustic look, my plan for the Emerson is to paint it white and give it to my daughter to compliment her multi-colored room!

Emerson DIY dresser exploded view with measurements
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Rustic Farmhouse Bed – Reader Projects!

***Update***  I’m trying to get as many reader photos as I can up on my Facebook page, so check out https://www.facebook.com/edhart.me/ for other reader projects.  They look great!!! ***

I confess I’m a little late getting this post up, but I wanted to highlight one of my reader’s rustic farmhouse bed projects since it turned out so nice!  Ronnie was also the reader that inspired me to rework the original queen sized plan into a king size rustic bed plan.

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Two Recently Updated Woodworking Plans

Updated-Plans

I recently updated a couple of my woodworking plans with more detailed and thorough assembly instructions and updated the cut lists.  Since I wrote the original plans a couple years ago, I thought it might be helpful to post new links to them.

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DIY Harbor View Desk & Hutch Knockoff Plan

Harbor View Desk Exploded

Now that I’ve gotten her windows replaced and room painted (lots of funky, girly colors), my daughter has been asking for a desk to do her school work. “This will be easy,” I thought, “a couple file cabinets and an old door on its side will be perfect!” Not exactly what she had in mind… ah, the difference between boys and girls…

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Build a Mega Spice Rack

Build-Your-Own-Spice-Rack

I’ve been searching all over the place for a spice rack that can actually hold a bunch of spices.  I’m convinced that the spice rack manufacturers don’t actually cook anything, because if they did, they’d realize that the racks they make and sell at the big box retailers only hold about 25% of the spices any cook really has!  And that’s not counting all the duplicates I bought because I couldn’t see in the cabinet where they’ve all fallen over and rolled behind all the other stuff that was crammed in there!

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Building a Moveable Workbench

moveable-workbench

While working on my recent Farmhouse Bed Project, I realized that I really needed a solid workbench.  I’ve been using an old door on a couple of saw horses, and that’s ok, but what would really be great is a large workbench that I could actually move around my “shop” as I’m building.  So at the risk of all the problems that arise when I’m trying to multi-task, I took on the project of building a workbench in the middle of my bed project.

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Rustic Farmhouse Table Bench Plans

Farmhouse-Bench-GraphicI built this bench to go with our Rustic Farmhouse Table.  Since building it, it’s been a great addition to the table.  In addition to the “look” we were going for, it’s really useful when we have a houseful of children and need to cram a bunch of them around the table.

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