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I wonder if I was the only one that got the news this morning that Craftisian was expired. I could not get to the sign on page and it said it was  ...
Several months ago an old friend of mine stumbled upon the idea that he would like an Alphorn so he asked me if I would be interested in making one...
The back stretcher will be rotated 39 degrees (roughly) from vertical to allow it to be joined at the thick part of the leg and will be wide enough...
I go to Hobby Lobby and purchase a couple of yards of the thinnest batting material they have.  It appears to be about 1/8." I cut it to the appr...
I'll be using a pair of Dominos at each end of the stretcher to join the stretcher to the leg assemblies.  With the stretcher clamped in position, ...
To me, a chair stretcher doesn't seem like something that ought to require a lot of design work, but I managed to spend 3 days trying to work out s...

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