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    Shawn,
    I thought i sent this message a few days ago, but now see that I must have screwed it up. Can't find it anywhere.

    39 radiation treatments, 3-8 hour chemo's. You must be some tough hombre. Keep it up.

    I like your signature comment "...No trees....Shawn Pixley". I was wondering if I could have your OK to use it in my own emails. I think my gang would get a kick out of it.

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    Shawn,
    Would you be amenable/interested in providing some input on a rather large live edge table I am working on? I don't really want to throw it out on a forum but have appreciated your comments in the past and have been impressed by the quality of design and craftsmanship in your own work.
    This piece has a couple of interesting constructibility/joinery issues that i would like to discuss with you. If you would consider this an imposition in any way I fully understand. BTW- I grew up at the beach (Hawaii & Santa Monica) and rode for Hap Jacobs back in the sixties.
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I Can't leave well enough alone - Part 1-1/2

by Shawn Pixley on 08-30-2015 at 11:28 PM
(Continued) After the fit is good, The leaves are glued in. After they dry, I scrape off the paper.



I then cleaned up the surface and shot the edges. A Coat of BLO and let to dry overnight.



Now I need to figure out what to do with the panel. I'm thinking I will re-saw it and make it a door for a

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I can't leave well enough alone - Part 1

by Shawn Pixley on 08-30-2015 at 11:13 PM
I am down to the part I have been dreading, the inlay. I have always liked the Japanese Brush and Ink Drawings. I travel with a sketchbook, brushes and pens. I found I was interested in this type of motif could be added to a cabinet. Here is a concept sketch.



I then spent a bit of time scaling this and composing it on the box.



So, I thought I would do a practice panel to ensure I was

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Details, details, details...

by Shawn Pixley on 06-01-2015 at 8:08 PM
Well the end seems in sight now. I have a coat of finish on the legs. I also fastened the top handle. So next it was mortising of the hasps and then fashioning the attachment plate.

I cut the mortises for the hasps. I rough out with my Dremel set up for inlay and then pared carefully with a chisel to my layout lines. After mortising, I put a coat of finish down to avoid getting finish on the hasps. I had cast the hasps last fall from bronze. That was a bit frustrating as twice I cracked

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Progress on the Collector's box

by Shawn Pixley on 05-28-2015 at 2:37 PM
I haven't posted on the blog for a while. Between work, travel and a few intervening projects (Guitar, Table, Shoe rack, etc…) I hadn't made much progress recently on the stand. I did cast the hasps and fabricated the pins last fall but didn't take pictures. Well, I sourced the walnut leg material and found some nice straight grained thick QS stock for the legs and started the fabrication.

I worked up the basic design in Sketchup to explore my ideas. I

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Sketchup and the design process

by Shawn Pixley on 08-04-2014 at 2:57 PM
From 2011: “There was a spirited discussion in the design forum around using SketchUp vs drawing by hand. I am a proponent of designing by hand, so if something else works for you, do it. First, I should explain that I never use anyone else's plans unless I am taking a class. I am also an Architect, Artist and Musician which may give some insight as to my nonconformist attitudes. I am not trying to espouse that you should design this way or that this way is the best, but merely that this is my way.

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