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]

This is a blog of making a classic car. I hope you will enjoy it. Questions and comments are more than welcome. There is also a breakdown vid made...

This is a blog of making a classic car. I hope you will enjoy it. Questions and comments are more than welcome. There is also a breakdown vid made...

This is a blog of making a classic car. I hope you will enjoy it. Questions and comments are more than welcome. There is also a breakdown vid made...

Before I could apply finish to the disks and attach the pyramids, I had to iron out the details of how to attach the three outer support wires. Th...

 I wanted to use glue to attach the pyramids to the disks, because I didn't want any visible fasteners. But it was very apparent that I would need ...

 At this point, the moment of truth had arrived. It was time to attach the tensioning wires and hope they didn't tear the pyramids apart or result ...