Category: 3D Analyzer Software

Sanding Wood by Going Through the Grits

Sanding is not the most pleasant woodworking task but it goes a lot smoother (pun intended) if you have a system in place for choosing sandpaper grits. That is: what grit to start with, what grit to end with, and what grits to use in between. This process is sometimes referred to as a sanding schedule or sanding sequence or more simply, going through the grits.

Keep in mind that the purpose of sanding is to remove mill marks on the wood created by …

The marketing and adverising of a woodworking business is sometimes a difficult task for a new business start up. For the most part, people start a woodworking business because they know how to work with wood. They do not necessarily have the skills to market their product however.

Generally woodworking businesses operate on word of mouth advertising and other traditional media. If your services and skills adequate enough to satisfy a few customers, you will find that they will more often than not recommend your business to others. A good rule of thumb about word of mouth …

3D Analyzer software is the ultimate link between Solidworks and CNC machinery used for woodworking.

3D Analyzer Software’s utilization of feature technology enhances programming automation, feature technology, a knowledge-based machining methodology.

By employing this technology, part features, such as faces, various types of holes, slots and pockets, can be created in Solidworks, automatically recognized, and then automatically machined. Feature technology improves the ease of use by having decisions made by the software, as compared to the user.

Feature recognition software is a relative new and important capability for the woodworking manufacturer to automatically examine …

WARRENSBURG — The devil, it is said, is in the details.

But woodworker and artist Ron Atteberry finds it angelically simple to apply fine hand-carved decoration to the superb wood chests and other furniture items he builds.

Visitors to Atteberry’s tidy garage workshop in Warrensburg will instead find numerous devils liberated from the details and grinning back at them from spine-tingling portraits executed in combinations of magic marker and colored pencil.

Atteberry, who has a fine eye for pretty girl model photographs he also likes to keep on the walls, prefers to use his …

This woodworking Lumber Storage Rack stores lumber and plywood. It provides good support for your lumber. The plywood is stored upright. Nearly any board is easy to find. And it keeps all out of the way until needed.

The Shop-made Lumber storage rack has vertical support brackets and horizontal arms. You cut all parts from 2×4 boards. The arms attach with half-lap joints. I suggest you space the arms no more than 32″ apart. Depending on the height of your ceiling, you could go down to 28″.

The spacing shows you where to …

Bamboo Flooring More Than An Alternative

Compared To Traditional Flooring Bamboo Has Many Advantages. Bamboo Flooring is certainly one of the upcoming materials in today’s floor market. With many many advantages over traditional hardwood flooring it has certainly been a kind of shooting star amongst the different new floor types used. Amongst many its durability and hardness make bamboo very resistant.

Ecological Aspects Of Bamboo Floors

With a very short rejuvenating cycle of about 5 years bamboo can be harvested much faster than most softwoods. Softwoods usually have a 20 to 30 year harvest …

A Quick Tour of Router Table TechniquesFor as little as it takes to get set up, and the short time it takes to aquire skill at using a router table, it’s easy to see why this venerable workhorse is often one of the first and most important tool purchases that a woodworker ever makes. Below, we’ll take a quick look at the common woodworking procedures that you can master within the first few weeks of owning a router table, …

3D Analyzer Software Woodworking Tips - Grain Filler

Use Grain Fillers for a Great Finish

The first step to a superb finishing job on your projects is the realization that all hardwoods are not created equal. Most woodworkers really know this already, but check out the surface of a piece of red oak, and then hold a piece of cherry next to it. Look at them head on and then at an angle. This gives a glaring example of the differences, and shows right away why red oak …

Few of us ever admit to having “enough” tools and machinery, but sooner or later, we realize that it’s possible to own one too many. Finding parking spots for those most needed machines, benches, stands, and materials in a crowded garage or basement can take the thrill out of making sawdust. All too often, we eat up shop time dragging heavy pieces across the floor, turning every project into a series of hassles. Enter mobile bases—the next best thing to building a bigger shop. These affordable accessories maximize available space by enabling you to roll in machinery when it’s needed …

What Is Needed To Build A Woodworking Workbench

Let’s have a detailed look at how to build a workbench for woodworking. Before you start building any workbench, make sure you have decided on the kind of vises you want to use. From a woodworkers point of view, you have the choice of two different vises which you can put on your workbench. So, how to build a workbench is first of all a question about what vises are going to be used.

Different Vises For Your Home Built Workbench

Let’s have a look at a heavy duty professional woodworking …