Resources & shop for woodworkers and DIY
Resources & shop for woodworkers and DIY
We’ve had have about 100 people at our storefront so far today for our Open Day. So we aren’t physically or mentally able to answer Open Wire questions. Sorry! We’ll be back next Saturday with Open Wire. — Christopher Schwarz Like this: Like Loading… Source link
I take a look at the lm1875 audio amplifier from Texas Instruments, its datasheet, build up the application circuit, and give it a listening test! http://davidharms.me/Electronics/ExloringTheLM1875AudioAmplifierPart1 Source link
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know that I love two things: toys and customizing my home to display toys. Really, it’s all about making your home work for you. I recently came across several of my favorite childhood figures and really wanted to display them in a spot where I could see […]
My favorite finishes, part 6 – nothing • Monday, January 23rd, 2023 A finish that gets little attention in books and articles about finishing is no finish. Consider it. Here are two examples. The panel in the frame-and-panel back of the cabinet shown above is quartersawn Port Orford cedar. The surface is exquisitely smooth direct […]
Much of my education in woodworking has been from what I describe as the relentless push to fail. That is, coming up with an objective that pushes the limits of what I can do, what I feel is possible, or what is possible. I came up with the objective to tie a knot in a […]
i hope you all had a good turkey day! it is now black friday so i have a few things to post here, some pristine, some ‘lightly used’ and with negotiable price tags … this one just in the door on monday this week … this is a claro walnut slab desk i made for […]
Home > Hand Tools, Woodworking > A slab top for the Japanese Workbench A slab top for the Japanese Workbench These days my life revolves around the lastest addition to the farm, our daughter. I spent the last few months franticly finishing some renovations so she didn’t grow up in a construction zone. Right before she was born I […]
I’m sad to report a blight is ravaging our native stands of American Beech here in the Midwest. Here’s a link to an article by Jim McCormac updating what we know right now. Like this: Like Loading… Related About walkerg Woodworker and writer This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Source link
Once the tools and work holding situation problem is figured out for the task at hand, I run into another problem: I want to treat things like a woodworker, not a carpenter (sorry carpenters). I get fussy about little details that won’t show, or won’t matter. I’m not saying that carpenters are more sloppy than […]
Meet Limor Fried, founder of Adafruit. I’m cross-posting this to both my woodworking blog www.CloseGrain.com and my software engineering blog FlinkAndBlink.blogspot.com (under the LearnToCode label), because even though there’s no woodworking in it, this is all about building stuff, so it bridges the worlds. It’s the maker ethos. If you’re interested in learning to code, and building the stuff […]
November 20, 2023 Around this time of year, a lot of people’s thoughts turn to Black Friday bargains and what new stuff they can get. But my thoughts turned to Captain Vines and his lament about how only the rich could afford boots that lasted a long time and how that made the cheap boots […]
From patterns and wood to a completed chair! I began working on this project in mid-September after doing research on the internet to find dimensions, other peoples projects, and images of the iconic Z-Chair. After creating patterns from MDF the first prototype was made from 6/4 Poplar. The majority of the information I found used […]