Resources & shop for woodworkers and DIY
Resources & shop for woodworkers and DIY
This all started because I wanted to be able to hit golf balls off my off my porch. I thought I’d build a tee box. That turned into if I’m gonna go through the effort I might as well extend it out some that way I have room for a grill and a nice table […]
I had an hour to kill at lunchtime in Fort Edward, a small city on the eastern shore of the Hudson River, and I thought to give an Irish pub a try. Burgoyne Avenue is named for the British general who passed through in October 1777 on his way to eventual defeat at the […]
There’s no more hotly debated topic in DIY circles than painting wood cabinets. I learned that the hard way when I posted a Kitchen Cabinet Painting video a couple years ago. Regardless of how you personally feel about the topic, you might one day be confronted with the challenge of fixing a bad kitchen paint […]
This is a conversation I recently had with August Winter. August and I discuss ideas on inspiration to individuality, problem solving to wonder, and the diversity of our students here at the Unplugged Woodshop Toronto. The Unplugged Woodshop is a hand tool only woodworking school where our hope is to provide students with knowledge, motivation, […]
Procrastination is a common challenge that many of us face when it comes to completing our design projects. Whether we have Months to work on a project or just a few days, the tendency to put off work until the last minute can be a productivity killer and leave us unprepared for design meetings with […]
The hard work over the last few months has paid off and the Bartop Arcade is done. It was crated and shipped the last week in April. Now, it has finally arrived in Petaluma and +Jason Howell has taken it out of the crate. With the help of +Aaron Newcomb and the others at +TWiT, he was able to wire the […]
My daughter hung our Christmas stockings on the fireplace mantle and decorated them with some Christmas lights. This inspired me to try to make some wooden stockings that light up. In this video, I make a set of five cool LED stockings with the Inventables X-Carve CNC Machine. Inventables sent me their latest CNC upgrades, so […]
My master bathroom remodel has been a project that has been a long time coming! I have not done anything to my master bathroom since I built my home in 2013. It was almost floor to ceiling beige travertine, oil-rubbed bronze faucets and the layout was super tight to get into the shower. To top […]
Its with deep sadness that I am writing about the passing of my friend Brian Alcock the last full time self employed grinder in Sheffield. I had so much admiration for this man and treasured every moment I spent in his company. In many ways he was very simple, he worked unbelievably hard still starting […]
Anyone who plays games involving dice there’s two things you always encounter; 1) they inevitably go flying off the tabletop, or 2) someone claims you threw them in a way that meant you were cheating. Aside from building a gaming table with raised sides like a craps table in Vegas your options can be limited […]
. . . and you don’t need to spend too much either! With judicious searching, and perhaps some making too, I calculate roughly that this set of good tools can be had for around £600 with a mix of buying secondhand and some new. Now, remember that these are lifetime tools that can handle every […]
The spinning carbide took a chunk out of the metal jointer guard when it fell on the blades – now imagine the mess those blades can make of flesh. Or rather don’t – it’s not pretty. The following is by Steve Latta. Steve makes contemporary and traditional furniture, and teaches woodworking at Thaddeus Stevens College […]