What I think, and what I want to convey, is that you don’t need to be a professional woodworker to build your own stuff. And a small sense of accomplishment … despite the limitations of my woodworking skills. There’s a joy in watching plain sanded wood come to life as the Danish seeps in and gives it color and depth. Yesterday I put the final shelves on the bookcase and oiled the entire hutch. Plus, think about a framework of so many pieces of laminate and imagine nice finish work in those hard to reach spaces. Me, I quit at 220, figuring further sanding would be wasted on my finish techniques. A real woodworker would have taken it to 350 to 400 and even to 600 grit. There was lots of sanding, 60 grit to 100 to 150 and on and on. Clamps by the dozens squeezed glue out of joints that had to be cleaned up when it dried. A ton of glue went into this hutch, let me tell you. The shelves, since I’d laminated everything in the bodies of both, got made from strips of maple and walnut and some left over bubinga from the guitars. This, though, I wanted a lower cabinet and an upper bookcase with shelves, the bookcase resting on top of the bottom, slightly narrower. I have 5 acoustic guitars I could show you that would illustrate both. Naturally I didn’t have a finished design in mind, just figured I’d build it piece by piece and hope for the best. My goal was to create a sort of intricate ghost cabinet, bones but no skin, everything visible. Lots of them, enough to make a skeleton framework, no plywood carcass, no plywood back, no doors in the lower cabinet. What I did was, first off, laminate these narrow strips of wood I had laying around the shop, maple and walnut lengths until I had a pretty sizeable pile of 2×3 lengths, some with a maple strip in the middle, some the reverse. I am, if not a woodworker, supposedly an artist. ![]() But naturally I wasn’t going to duplicate the old one in miniature. I have an old colonial maple hutch that’s a little too wide for where we have it so I thought maybe I would make a replacement, one that would actually fit the space. Let me give you a case in point, my latest project. Real woodworkers proceed with a set of plans. More than likely I’ll attempt a difficult design, get in over my head, then have to adjust on the fly. Plus, use interesting woods, laminate them, draw the viewer’s eye to those rather than give a close inspection to the slightly off joints or the rough finish. The design, if it’s artsy fartsy enough, will more than compensate for primitive building strategies. What I figure, see, is the design is the thing. I could make excuses, lack of good tools, insufficient training, a shop that’s a shack on its way out, but the truth is I’m too lazy to learn joinery techniques, good finishing skills or more exotic methods of the trade. My real woodworking friends will tell you I’m a screw and glue carpenter, a 90-10 guy, the sort who possibly tries to be better but loses interest part way through and figures 90% is close enough. There are little ones on top of bigger ones, all adding to give the appearance of random patchiness.Let me state at the outset, I am no real woodworker. They're just a little less friendly than the ones in your garden.Ģ1. Breeders spread feed underfoot, hoping the little ones will peck at it.Ģ0. Jem pressed the little hand he held between his own workhardened ones.ġ9. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine.ġ8. A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another.ġ7. With library catalogs, bigger is better, and one all-inclusive silo is preferable to lots of little ones.ġ6. ![]() You aspire to do great things? Begin with little ones.ġ5. 6 The big fish continued to devour the little ones.ġ4. The Bible calls such little ones “an inheritance from Jehovah.”ġ3. With his arms he will collect the little ones together.ġ2. How precious are such “ little ones” to his Father?ĩ. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.Ĩ. Dreams, even vivid ones, have little predictive value.ħ. Just a little morphia for the worst ones.Ħ. one little, two little, three little babies of my own.ĥ. Can't I just pick off one of the little sick ones?Ģ. Chúng ta có thể tham khảo những mẫu câu này để đặt câu trong tình huống cần đặt câu với từ little ones|little one, hoặc tham khảo ngữ cảnh sử dụng từ little ones|little one trong bộ từ điển Từ điển Tiếng Anhġ. Dưới đây là những mẫu câu có chứa từ "little ones|little one", trong bộ từ điển Từ điển Tiếng Anh.
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