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DragonFly Harp #5: Stand Mods- 1/6/2011
After getting some great helpful feedback from members of my Virtual Harp Circle (Yahoo! group) friends I decided that the harp needed to be shorter and angled more towards the player. That would make...
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DragonFly Harp #6: 1/12/2011
Doesn’t seem like 6 days have passed, but the calendar does not lie. I have a lot to catch up with.First order of the day was to edge join the pieces I would need to have wider- like for parts of the...
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DragonFly Harp #7: 1/20/2011 S-L-O-W Going
Days and days of mostly just staring at the dumb thing wondering why- oh why- things did not meet the way they should. Take a little off here- then a little off there- shoot!- think I took some off the...
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DragonFly Harp #8: 1/25/2011 Sound Box Completed
Isn’t it strange how sometimes you can work and work and have nothing to show for it. Fortunately there are other times when a lot happens in a short period of time.One of the tricky parts of this...
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DragonFly Harp #9: 2/12/2011 Harp and Stand Roughed Out
Seventeen days- long time between posts. I meant to make a break between the harp and stand constructions, but they kinda ran together. First, here is what happened to the harp:I used my trusty Jet 14”...
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DragonFly Harp #10: Continuing Saga
Time flies when you are having fun. I thought I’d have the harp almost done by now- but life interfered and not much progress has been made. The new garden fencing is done, and the new pergola too, so...
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DragonFly Harp #11: Almost Finished!
Lots of vegetable gardening done in the past couple of months, and it could not wait, so the harp building project had to wait a while. Finally last week I got back into it after 6 weeks of seldom...
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DragonFly Harp #12: 5-11-2011 to 6-11-2011 Disaster!
6-18-2011The harp broke as the strings were tightened- way back to a month ago. I was devastated, since I had little time to fix it (and everything else I had to do) in time for the show, carving and...
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DragonFly Harp #13: 6-19-2011 Finally Really Finished
Fixing the popped soundboard was not too difficult, though it did take some time. I knew instantly how to fix it so that the problem would never reoccur. I needed a block to connect the soundboard...
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DragonFly Harp #14: Ebony Plugs
Here is the front of the harp with the ebony plugs in place. Looks a lot better now.
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Grasshopper Pull Toy
Back in May our daughter came to visit with us for a few days. We like to work together in the shop so that is what we did. We each knew a young child that we wanted to make a toy for, so I inquired...
View ArticleDragonFly Harp #15: Music!
OK- I have given up the plan to get a good professional-looking video and I’m going to just put up something that shows how the new harp plays. We have had unbelievable problems with our computer...
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Inside-Out Ornament Tutorial #1: How to Make an Inside-Out Ornament
I have wanted to try to make one of these ornaments ever since I first saw them. They are so interesting, and everyone asks- “how did you do that”? I had trouble understanding a lot of the how-to...
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Making the Wren #1: Start, to almost finished
This is the finished bird that I started 2 weeks ago. It took about 24 hours to get it to this stage. I still need to make a mount for the bird, and I’d like to make it unique. That means no ‘bird on a...
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Boxes for Cremains Internment
Kind of a sad topic, but so it is. A good friend of ours died a couple of months ago and her husband commissioned me to make some cedar boxes for her and her sister. The sister died 2 years before,...
View ArticleUpdate to Personal Woodworking Web Site
http://www.woodworks-by-donna.comA long overdue update to my web site is hereby complete. I hope. I had not added new projects since 2009 so there are some new things to see. New stuff is at the top of...
View ArticleTooting my own horn- again
http://www.woodworkersinstitute.com/page.asp?p=3058This is the link to an article that just came out in the British WoodCarving magazine. I was super thrilled to be asked to do the article and I like...
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The Ultimate Band Saw Box Book- is back in print!
First a note of background:At the beginning of 2007 my book came out with the Sterling Publications company. They printed 16,000 copies and we sold them all. In 2010 the book went out of print- sad...
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The Ultimate Band Saw Box Book
It is here! Still my fevered heart- I have my book back in print. I like this cover even more than the original. I always thought that one looked too stuffy. This is better. Anyhow, I have updated my...
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How to Make a Ball-Jointed Doll in Wood
At long last, my latest booklet, How to Make a Ball-Jointed Doll in Wood, is finished and available. After a year of trials and errors I have made a darn good set of plans and instructions for my 7”...
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