Category Archives: YouTubeVideo

Carved Frame and Paring Chisel!

Posted on November 17, 2020 by woodworksbyjohn

I have been working on this frame that I will use for the upcoming class from Charles Douglas. This class is about creating the Dutch Black finish and is the first Zoom meeting will be the first week in January.

Posted in Carving, Design Process, Picture Frames, Tool Sharpening, YouTubeVideo | Tagged block format, carved picture frame, Charles Douglas, classic wordpress format, Dutch Black finish, Tool Sharpening, Veritas MkII, Zoom workshopm | 2 Comments

Frame Talk #3: Ebonizing Basswood

Posted on April 14, 2020 by woodworksbyjohn

Earlier this year I did a blog post on ebonizing Red Oak for a picture frame. It brought a lot of responses and comments and while I was doing the process I also tried the solution on a piece of … Continue reading →

Posted in Diane Eugster art, Floater Frame, Frame Talk, Picture Frames, Tutorial, YouTubeVideo | Tagged airbrush, Basswood, Diane Eugster art, Ebonizing, floater picture frame, floater style picture frame, gimlet, Oil Painters of America, platinum shellac | Leave a comment

Frame #185: Ebonized Oak

Posted on December 13, 2019 by woodworksbyjohn

As a framer, my goal is to have the frame compliment the brush strokes, texture, and palette that the artist put into the painting. This is a painting my wife (Diane Eugster) recently completed which is 12″ x 16″ and … Continue reading →

Posted in Artist, custom profile, custom profile, Design Process, Hand Planes, Hand Tool Woodworking, Picture Frames, YouTubeVideo | Tagged custom picture frame, custom picture framer, Diane Eugster art, Diane Eugster Paintings, ebonized oak, Osmo Polyx, Veritas small plow plane, vinegar solution, Woodworkers Source, WoodworksbyJohn | 1 Comment

Drawing Desk Complete

Posted on October 7, 2019 by woodworksbyjohn

In the last blog the dovetails had been cut and fit for the bottom section of the custom drawing desk. If you missed it, here’s a LINK to that one and before I talk about the remaining work, let me … Continue reading →

Posted in Artist Furniture, custom furniture, Hand Cut Dovetails, YouTubeVideo | Tagged adjustable top drawing table, artists furniture, Baltic Birch plywood, custom drawing desk, custom drawing table, custom furniture, Drafting table hardware, L-N Bronze Smooth Plane, Lie-Nielsen planes, Osmo Polyx, Rockler hardware, Rockler woodworking, WoodworksbyJohn | 2 Comments

Sofa Table with Kumiko : Starting Point

Posted on August 21, 2018 by woodworksbyjohn

Lately I’ve been intrigued with the Japanese form of woodworking called Kumiko, you’ve probably seen the two boxes I recently completed using that technique as an accent. I’ve seen a few images of the Kumiko being used in furniture as … Continue reading →

Posted in custom furniture, Hand Planes, Hand Tool Woodworking, Hybrid Woodworking, Kumiko, Mortise and Tenon Joint, YouTubeVideo | Tagged Cherry, curved tapered legs, fair curve, handtool woodwork, hybrid woodwork, Kumiko, low angle block plane, mortise and tenon, sofa table, tapered legs | Leave a comment

Design & Carving Procedure for Custom Frame

Posted on December 12, 2017 by woodworksbyjohn

In a recent blog I talked about my process for getting a design onto a picture frame for carving. Whenever I share the methods I’ve come up with there are two reactions I get. First of all it’s a thank … Continue reading →

Posted in Artist, Carving, Hand Tool Woodworking, Picture Frames, Tutorial, YouTubeVideo | Tagged Carving, chisel selection, chisel sweep, composition gold leaf, design pattern making, Design Process, oil gilding, Olive leaf pattern, quick set oil size, slow set oil size, template, YouTube Video | 3 Comments

VanDam Float; New Picture Frame Commission

Posted on September 13, 2017 by woodworksbyjohn

If you saw my last post it had to do with the approach I took to making a floater type frame for Diane’s latest painting. I gave a definition and explained how it was made, here’s a link if you’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Picture Frames, YouTubeVideo | Tagged floater picture frame, gusset, Miter joint, Stanley #7 Jointer Plane, tongue and groove joint | 1 Comment

Beaded Frame #105

Posted on May 25, 2017 by woodworksbyjohn

Diane is currently working on a painting that will look better with a more contemporary frame than the molding I had milled at Barger Molding. I always like the challenge of creating my own profile from rough stock plus it … Continue reading →

Posted in Hand Planes, Hand Tool Woodworking, Picture Frames, YouTubeVideo | Tagged #20 biscuit, Barger Molding, bead cutting blade, biscuit joiner, Bronze Beading Tool, hand tool woodwork, L-N Beading Tool, Lie-Nielsen #66, Merle Band Clamp, Veritas skewed rabbet plane, Veritas small plow plane, YouTube Video | 1 Comment

Diamond Motif Frame # 103

Posted on April 14, 2017 by woodworksbyjohn

If you recall reading one of my recent Blogs work had started on a frame for a recent painting by Diane titled “Almost Summer”. In my mind, I refer to this painting as the Studebaker Girl because she had the model posed … Continue reading →

Posted in Carving, Hand Tool Woodworking, Picture Frames, Tutorial, YouTubeVideo | Tagged Carhartt coveralls, Diane Eugster painting, hand carving, Henderson Heritage Museum, leather apron, long bent v-tool, picture frame | Leave a comment

Utility Sink Progress

Posted on March 4, 2017 by woodworksbyjohn

The Utility Sink project is one that really keeps with my “hybrid woodworking” philosophy. In this project there are 8 sets of mortise and tenon joints, probably one of the most used joints in woodworking until pocket hole joinery, biscuits, … Continue reading →

Posted in Hand Planes, Hand Tool Woodworking, Utility Sink, YouTubeVideo | Tagged bandsaw work, block plane, Bowsaw, CME Woodworks, hand beader, hand cut chamfer, hand plane, hybrid woodwork, Lee Valley gauge blocks, leg taper, Lie-Nielsen #66, Marc Spagnuolo, rabbet block plane | 2 Comments

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