Resources & shop for woodworkers and DIY
Resources & shop for woodworkers and DIY
I bought this stock tank at Tractor Supply. The stove is from France. Yin and yang indeed. During the summer my steam box took its last hot breath. The interior bits had rotted away, as had the door and its hinges. I pitched the thing, planning to build a replacement. Then I thought: Am I […]
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For Halloween this year, I decided to go all out and make an oversized, wearable Optimus Prime helmet. As a huge Transformers fan, I’ve always wanted to build a life-size Optimus Prime, and making his head seemed like a good place to start. The end result was an awesome, comfortable helmet that I can’t wait […]
The late David Charlesworth’s “Ruler Trick” is a wonderfully efficient addition to your sharpening methodology. For those unfamiliar with it, please see his short video – it is easier to appreciate than a verbal description. It basically is a simple way to hone the steel only just behind the cutting edge on the flat side […]
An experiment to see how quickly a wooden cutting board is rendered unusable I made this cutting board and designed it to fail, but it didn’t fail as I expected! Here are the “bad decisions” that I made in an attempt to accelerate the failure of the cutting board. Low density wood I used butternut, […]
we got a request recently from a client that i made a cabinet for ‘a million years ago’ actually, it was sometime in the 90s … natural cherry,milk paint and ebony details … the client has moved to a new, smaller space and wanted a smaller version of the table in the top photo, which […]
Home > Hand Tools, Woodworking > Canton Brewing Company Beer Brewing Mashing Fork / Rake Canton Brewing Company Beer Brewing Mashing Fork / Rake Canton Brewing Company cares enough about their brewing process and supporting local craftsman that they hired me to hand make them traditional mashing forks for use in their beer production. If […]
Study of a burl mallet by Barb Walker One of the perks of being married to an artist is that we share a lot about design and the creative life. Barb’s always introducing me to her artist friends and mentors she admires. Here’s one of the greats, Wayne Thiebaud sharing his insight on a great masterpiece […]
After I completed the build of the prairie style sofa and love seat, we needed a coffee table. For the fancy photo shoot of the sofa & love seat, we temporarily drafted an antique Korean sea chest as a coffee table stand-in. You can see the original table’s matching pieces as the end tables. The old coffee […]
Woodworking With Hand Tools: Tools, Techniques and Projects, The Taunton Press, $24.95, 240pp, April, 2018 Full disclosure: I was given a copy of this book by the publisher for review. This is another gorgeous book. It’s an anthology of 33 hand tool articles collected from the past 10 years of Fine Woodworking magazine, by the following […]
July 5, 2023 During a recent trip back from England, I needed to stop for a drink and to stretch my legs. But I didn’t fancy either a service station or a coffee chain. As I was passing through Dumfries, I decided to visit the Aviation Museum. It is a bit off the route I […]
Boxes of Sepele from Woodworkers Source and the results of 40+ hours of work. Those of you who follow my blog know I like to start with a before and after picture to introduce the project. Usually I’ll show the full size drawings I do but this goes before that — where I get the […]