This is a bit of the fine tuning I knew awaited me once I started getting into the chevalet. My original (re-invention of the wheel) blade clamps...

When I started to build the chevalet from a few photos on the internet, I wasn't at all sure it would amount to anything at all so in many places...

I have improved a fair bit since I posted the initial SU of the chevalet. In fact it was my very first attempt and it was, in a word awful. I may ...

With the grooves made and the bottom fitted (1/4" plywood hammer veneered on both sides) the next job was to make the interlocking rebates for the ...

With the hinge out of the way, one of the tricky fits is history but getting all the corners to match is another thing altogether. The marquetry wa...

This is a bit anticlimactic after the project has been posted but I wanted to keep the "plane box" thing a secret. There were however some cool han...

A friend of mine is in the process of going through, selling, and discarding everything from her grandparents’ “3 generation farm”. Can you imagi...

I am going on an adventure into the world of chair making. I have always wanted to build a windsor chair. I am starting out making a dining chair i...

There's nothing much to see here.  With all the pieces sealed, the glue-up took all of 10 minutes. The roll of masking tape was the perfect size to...

Installing the veneer strips didn't quite go as planned. My initial idea was to apply a little contact cement to hold the overlapped end in place. ...

With the prototype complete, I assembled the remaining two lamps. [20200201-IMG_3503.jpg] [20200202-IMG_3511.jpg] [20200202-IMG_3512.jpg] The bot...

The doors are 3/4" maple plywood slabs with 1/2" wide solid maple trim and inlaid tiles and accent strips. They were by far the most difficult part...

 My wife wanted a light/whitish finish for the cabinet. Maple is pretty light toned, so my first thought was to use a clear water-based poly finish...

Few parts of this project went smoothly, and the final door assembly was no exception. It started well enough. Attaching the outer trim wasn't too...

Man, it's been a while! I've had so little shop time lately and none of it has been unspoken for, so rehabbing this plane hasn't been on the agenda...

I fully intended to do the tote repair and the refinishing of the tote and knob in one post but shop time has been scarce so I'm going to just go a...

Well, a mere 6 months after starting this series, I'm finally ready to wrap it up… So let's dive right in! When last I left off, I had finished re...

When we left off (last December!), the internal dividers had been set on this piece and I was debating adding the external framing that's been comp...

So I pushed one of the unfinished drawers into it's place in the cabinet and couldn't get it out without help. And that help was installation of a ...

Okay. In the last installment I noted that a glued up drawer front / sides piece went kinda 'parallelogram' on me overnight. To affect a repair, I ...

My last big project introduced me to 18th century European joinery and really got me hooked on the idea of more complex assemblies that are locked ...

There appear to be two kinds of joints to be found among the Japanese Joinery videos available. One is the structurally elegant locking type that I...

Trying a slideshow.  Practice run..... This is a wall unit I made a few years back.  [DSC01627.JPG]

Building the Columns for the ends. Another Slideshow [4 Belly Columns.jpg]