The lumber for Boston Blockfront chest has been finial milled to thickness, the photograph is of the chest top which consists of two boards of Mahogany, one of which is 16 inches wide, the finial dimenstion of the top is 42″ long x 20″ wide x 13/16″ thick. We use hot hide glue for all […]
Templates are yet another reason we at LaPlaca Woodworks have been prototyping our 18th century reproductions with Sketchup, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to print a full size template from the non-professional version of Sketchup, but it is possible. When completing complicated pieces like the Boston Oxbow or the Boston Blockfront the […]
I promised myself that going forward we need to do a better job documenting the progress on projects, that is the purpose of this blog that I have created. Anyway.. Although it’s not the most exciting post in the world, I have documented the lumber selected for the main part of the case,the lumber we […]