Now here is some interesting information for you the interesting indented growth rings are commonly referred to as Hazelwood. This unusual characte...

Then look I had disillusionary thoughts after seeing some of shipwrights work  I could replicate a table. Its the same table I attempted to "copy" ...

OK after making template to use for inserting the She-Oak into the table top I removed the clamps and continued. [IMG_3153.JPG] I used a stand off...

Not that it really matters, the hopelessly optimistic completion date of mid October for the windows has been and gone, and there's still a way to ...

Back onto the windows at last, got nothing done in December, I am now looking at Easter as a deadline to have them ready to be fitted. From the ou...

This weekends first 'why didn't I think of that before moment' came when I was setting up the router to do the beadings and glazing bars. That was...

Needing a small desk for guest area (Airbnb) that is vintage decor. Reclaiming a cast singer treadle for the base.[image.jpg] During our trip to Te...

Wintery day….first real snow. Pups enjoyed it.[39296A3B-89D5-4AFB-991F-858C81E5DC51.jpeg] Working on the shelf today. Found a chunk of mesquite tha...

Wintery day….first real snow. Pups enjoyed it.[39296A3B-89D5-4AFB-991F-858C81E5DC51.jpeg] Working on the shelf today. Found a chunk of mesquite tha...

Speaking of nails… looking through my late father’s inventory for something short but kinda substantial. Found these. [C4C02976-0CAD-4E10-A71C-7DF...

If you remember "The Gable Built-Ins" blog from that other site (Jan '22), this picture should look familiar. [IMG_3675.JPG] Well, with the extrem...

Dovetailing at the bench. [image.jpg] [IMG_5278.jpeg][IMG_5279.jpeg]

I've been AWOL for almost a year.  Like a lot of other folks,  I migrated over here from the other wood working forum a year or so back.  About the...

While working on the Altai Project Logo carving, I discovered I needed a narrow skew in order to get down into some of the corners. I have a handfu...

[IMG_8902.jpeg] I did this pattern before as one of my first stabs at cutting veneer with my laser. This time I was going to better document the p...

[IMG_8875.jpeg] For this project, I chose some walnut and Burmese teak. The teak has some great chatoyance, a big color shift as you view it from ...

[IMG_8886.jpeg] Ok, time to decide on how you plan to attach the assembly to something to give it a life. I use a vacuum bag for veneering. That ...

I have a bunch of dovetail templates marked out for spacing the DTs on various sizes cases, plus my 1:4 dovetail marker and my tiny square I use wh...

Another storage box, this time from ¼ inch poplar and Baltic birch ply for the top. Treated (this morning) with kakishibu, which darkens with expos...

[IMG_7711.jpeg] Just a quick and dirty project to use up some smalls and keep this organized when I’m doing something like this morning’s bench gl...

Picking up where we left-off in the previous post in this series, where we had a look at the physical materials (the wood, fasteners, rods, bolts, ...

I sent an e-mail to someone that I admire. He responded, which is amazing. His response was short and sweet: Good stuff!   Thanks for sharing. B ...

These are words I tell myself in the throes of the process: Any fool can put something together. It takes a special kind of fool to design somethi...

This phoVto serie is about making a VW bully camper van T1 [Image] The plan for making this model you can find at my website. Enjoy reading and ...

This photo serie is about making a VW bully camper van T1 [Image] The plan for making this model you can find at my website. Enjoy reading and k...

This photo serie is about making a VW bully camper van T1 [Image] The plan for making this model you can find at my website. Enjoy reading and k...