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Here are the last few that should bring the construction up to date with my project post. I highly recommend that you try this style of joinery. It...

I’ve got a lot of pictures. Did I mention I love this joinery? Here are a few that set up the assembly. Again pretty self explanatory, ask question...

This blog series is a year old now, starting in Dec. 2020. There seemed to be a lot of interest in my 18th century French joinery post so I though...

My first student has just finished his level one interactive video course and it was a big success. He received over three hours of video instructi...

It is time for a change at CSFM. I have decided to stop offering in shop classes and start offering the same (exact) classes via private interactiv...

I wrote an article in the January issue of our “Woodworking Monthly” about dyeing veneer for marquetry and in it I used a light aluminium oven tray...

I’ve been doing a bit of repetitive hand cutting (dovetails) in my leg vice (or vise if you prefer) lately and while I am very happy with it in gen...

The leg vice is so simple as to be self explanatory and its installation likewise, to the point that you can install it and uninstall it in less th...

As a boat builder I worked with epoxy A LOT… so for me it was a no brainer that the vices would be loose fitted and fixed in place with epoxy. This...

Ok, lets get into the leg assemblies. This is one of the really interesting parts of my bench. The leg assemblies end up as perfectly fitted finger...

I know that I have said that there is no “fancy joinery” in this bench and there certainly doesn’t have to be. There is however, in my own bench, a...

NOTE: Most of this page can be avoided if you want to just drill your dog holes in the layered plywood. The inserts are the “Cadillac version”. Par...