Mike40

I am back on the job after celebrating my wife’s 75th birthday yesterday. We are now slightly over 150 years old combined. We have learned a lot ov...

You might be wondering why I am going to all the bother with such a heavy construction. Well, the weather gets pretty hairy here in the Fall and Wi...

The reason My wife doesn’t like storing our big gas grill in our garden shed because it takes too much space (and she keeps buying more outdoor fur...

My purpose for this blog is to encourage anyone who has thought about taking up woodcarving to give it a try. I outline below my beginnings and pro...

You may have seen my project post here which explains the background for this design. Several readers expressed their interest in a blog to show ho...

At the end of the last blog the sides and bottom had been glued up and the foot frames and top rim frames had been each glued together in preparati...

This project is almost finished. If I’m lucky the three main components of the baskets will be glued together tomorrow. Here’s what was done in pre...

Today I have been working on the basket bottoms. They are made from 2 pieces with a glue joint down the middle. The wood is pretty thin, about 5 mm...

I had big plans for lots of progress today, but I wound up doing a lot of chauffeur work instead so I didn’t get into the shop until late afternoon...

Today I finished the scrolling and got the sides ready for the bottom panels. There are a some important points that are outlined below. GETTING&nb...

Just to let you know that I have posted the photos in my Christmas basket blog which were missing.

Back to work on the project today after our thursday shopping excursion and getting a check up at the doctor (us old folks do a lot of that). After...