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frank howarth
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Добавлен 8 июл 2006
Architecture at a small scale expressed through woodworking and film making.
Disclaimer: My videos here are for entertainment, to share what I do, and to maybe provide some inspiration. Woodworking can be dangerous if all safety precautions are not taken. Please don't try anything I am doing just because you saw me doing it. Understand that there are years of learning and experimentation by me that are not in the videos. You can have a safe, enjoyable, and even inspirational time in your shop by understanding your own tools, materials, and your own skill level.
Frank Makes LLC
P.O. Box 25518
Portland, OR 97298
Disclaimer: My videos here are for entertainment, to share what I do, and to maybe provide some inspiration. Woodworking can be dangerous if all safety precautions are not taken. Please don't try anything I am doing just because you saw me doing it. Understand that there are years of learning and experimentation by me that are not in the videos. You can have a safe, enjoyable, and even inspirational time in your shop by understanding your own tools, materials, and your own skill level.
Frank Makes LLC
P.O. Box 25518
Portland, OR 97298
Making Mars out of Cherry
I have made the planet Mars from a dodecahedron made out of cherry wood. The dodecahedron is made out of pentagons that have the terrain of Mars carved into them. I put the pentagons together to make the sphere of the planet. I did a similar project about the moon a few months ago and in that project I had trouble keeping the seams between the pentagons small. In this Mars project, I was able to hold the pentagons with a mortise and tenon on my table saw jig. This allowed me to cut the angle between the different pentagons along the sides of each pentagon by holding them from the center instead of from the edge. This minimized the seam between each of the pentagons creating the final form...
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Salvaging Storm Damage
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We had a particularly bad winter storm this past January. The storm started very windy and ended with ice. We lost power for 4 days and we had a tree fall on our house. Luckily the tree that fell in our house did not do very much damage as it just tipped over and touched the side of the roof. And luckily we had all of the branches trimmed off the next day which saved us from the tree being weig...
Making the Moon
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I've done a handful of projects where I've taken a geometric solid like a dodecahedron or an icosahedron and made that shape out of flat parts. Once I had those parts glued together, I would wood turn that into a sphere. I'd like to continue studying this technique. I really like the idea of adding patterns to the parts that make up the solid before it gets woodturned and then those patterns sh...
Adding A Laser Cutter to My CNC
Просмотров 105 тыс.5 месяцев назад
I have been installing a laser cutter on the CNC machine. The laser cutter was sent to by Avid CNC. It's been a slow process over the last few months. The first step was installing the laser physically to the z-axis of the CNC machine. This went fairly straightforward as it was just following instructions and putting in screws. The other bigger project with this was updating my CNC control box....
Woodturning Segmented Candle Stands
Просмотров 100 тыс.6 месяцев назад
I have made a pair of candle stands for this year's Christmas ornament project. The stands are wood turned segmented pieces. I made them from a maple tree I cut up from my father-in-law's front yard. I have been wanting to do segmented turning where I angle the table saw blade while cutting the segments to give an angled pattern to the segments. I added a strip of purple heart wood to the rings...
We Need a Bigger Table
Просмотров 98 тыс.7 месяцев назад
I have made an extension for our dining room table to accommodate all of the guests we are having this Thanksgiving. I wanted to make this extension as a stand alone table that will fit with our existing dining room table. When it is not extending our dining room table, it will either be the game table in the basement or it may be the outdoor table on our deck - if that ever gets built. I made ...
Woodturning a Platter with Thick Inlays
Просмотров 136 тыс.8 месяцев назад
What really intrigued me about building and using a CNC machine was the idea of being able to cut complex inlays that I could then wood turn. I've done several projects with this in mind, but in these projects I've always used a straight router bit to get a deep inlay. In woodturning, the inlay needs some thickness to be able to have a curved surface. What I've been trying to do over the last f...
Throwing a System Into My Wrenches
Просмотров 191 тыс.9 месяцев назад
A few years ago, I got a lot of wrenches at an auction. I think I have finally come up with a way to organize them. The wrenches have just been piled into the three yellow bins that they came in. This makes it difficult to find the correct wrench when I need it. What I would like to have is a way that the wrenches are displayed so I can see them and also organize them to make it easier to find ...
What am I going to do with this Massive Fir Ball?
Просмотров 94 тыс.10 месяцев назад
In 2019, I acquired a large chunk of fir from a tree I slabbed up. The piece of fir has been sitting outside next to the shop for the last 4 years. I finally pulled it out and decided instead of getting rid of it, I would turn it into a massive sphere. I had a little trouble getting it mounted on the lathe. I had to get a chuck spur so I would be able to hold the piece of fir on the lathe. I us...
Making an Ulu Knife Cutting Board
Просмотров 102 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Earlier this summer, we went on a trip to explore part of Alaska. I was intrigued by all of the textures and surfaces in the landscape of this part of the world. I also discovered the ulu knife which is a traditional knife of Alaska. I thought it would be interesting to make a cutting board for this knife and pull some inspiration from the landscape of Alaska. I made a random segmented block of...
Juggling Table Saws
Просмотров 126 тыс.Год назад
In the middle of the shop, I have three table saws that are connected into one large table. Two of the saws are a Powermatic 72 and a Powermatic 66. These two saws I use all the time. They face each other; each is the outfeed table for the other saw. Next to these two saws, I have an Oliver 88 which I haven't used as much. In this project, I fixed the wobbly arbor on the Oliver 88, so the blade...
The Ultimate Planer Upgrade
Просмотров 248 тыс.Год назад
Global Tooling www.globaltooling.com/collections/stock-titan-lux-cut-journal-heads I have updated the cutterhead in my planer for the second time, this time with a LUX CUT III Cutterhead from Global Tooling. I had to disassemble much of the drive elements of the planer to take the old straight knife cutterhead out and put the new LUX CUT III cutterhead in. After the new cutterhead was put in, I...
Why did my Bathroom Remodel Take 13 Years?
Просмотров 119 тыс.Год назад
I have finally completed our 13-year bathroom remodel project. We started demoing our basement bathroom just after we moved into our house. We took out the sink and removed most of the drywall. We decided the shower was in okay shape and we left it as it was, although the outside had never been finished. Over the years, I have reinstalled the drywall, replastered, and painted. We also had our p...
The Big Bowl That Took 7 Years to Woodturn
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The Big Bowl That Took 7 Years to Woodturn
I’ll Never Misplace My Lathe Accessories Again
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I’ll Never Misplace My Lathe Accessories Again
My CNC Setup: Organizing Tools and Improving Stability
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My CNC Setup: Organizing Tools and Improving Stability
The Industrial-Organic Table: A Lego Gear Creation
Просмотров 72 тыс.Год назад
The Industrial-Organic Table: A Lego Gear Creation
Crafting for Cats: Wooden Scratcher Holders
Просмотров 78 тыс.2 года назад
Crafting for Cats: Wooden Scratcher Holders
Making the Most Beautiful Trash Can in the World
Просмотров 120 тыс.2 года назад
Making the Most Beautiful Trash Can in the World
I think you need friends, Ideas you have enough regards and cheers from Luxembourg 🇱🇺 europe
step motor with arduino is what you need
Amazing! Love your projects and ingenuity!😊
well done 👏
well done ❤
looks nice
Too much material is wasted during your projects :((
Besides all your interesting projects and slim shop solutions that are inspiring to me, I do very much like your professionally animated and time-lapse sequences - I really enjoy their beautifull childlike playfuness. Am searching for one of those antique radial Arm saws but it´s not easy shooting one on craigslist from Europe/Germany - most sellers want cash and personal collection (but don´t want to send my nearly ninety year old relative from Oregon to New Mexico or Florida to pick one up for me... ;) Thank´s for sharing your stuff with us :)
maybe you should start using extruded aluminium for such designs.
Hello Frank I just saw your video I was wondering what wiring did you do to change from 3 phase to single phase
innovative solution ❤
vacuum chamber is better
you should have welded the holes
well done 👏
simple is the best
looks good ❤
please less wood waste 🙏
Your friends are lucky.
Amazing. Love it. Hard work ❤
well done but wheels dont have break.
nice ❤
Magic 8 ❤
Too much wood is wasted while flatenning :(((
now you are an expert on spheres.
well done. bravo ❤
Thats Rainfall Projects metal work on your wall. I watched it build for you.
This is much smaller. Enjoy the new machine.
Choping tree 👎
I have no idea why, but when I’m stressed out I watch this and it helps.
Very informative video. Instead of a panic button, I installed a foot on/off switch. I find it convenient when making multiple cuts on the same piece such as dados for a bookshelf.
8 years ago this video? I tried to engineer this myself
Thanks.
What did you end up doing with itm
Eighth time is a charm.
you're adding a forth dimension using a three vector cutting machine - in essence you are making the zero point mobile.
apolloinrealtime
very Christmasy.
crisscross - that's how bulldozer operators shape landscapes.
air pressure relief ports
excellent story as usual.
Another Brick in the Wall
Time is valuable maybe you should invest more on new tools sell the old ones to the museum. You may heart yourself.
Better tools pay off.
It would be great to have a machine to make the wedges for you
I prefer you buy new machines or almost new second hand.
Looks beautiful ❤
Extruded Aluminium next time
You should have bought a professional cnc table. Your tables output result will digrade rapidly after some time. You should at least use linear rails and no wooden part attached to warming step motor.
can you make this able to be saved to a playlist please?
You are one very smart man