Blog Series

Serving Bowls

Part 1: Bowl glue up.

Well starting some new bowls or serving bowls from the patterns I picked up at the wood show. Here is a glue up of 2 inch thick white oak that the ...

Part 2: Routing Out the dish

Well the time has come to route out the big white oak glue up. Well after drilling out most of the waste it was time to use my new bowl router bits...

Part 3: serving bowls done on first run

These are made out of red oak. They also as my cutting boards were completely soaked in food safe mineral oil. I soak everything for about an hour....

Marquetry Jewellery Box

Part 15: Top Sand Shading and Assembly

Warning: Lots of photos! Here’s my setup for sand shading one piece at a time. The marquetry has been preliminarily assembled on sticky shelf paper...

Part 16: Glue-Up and Details

With the marquetry all done and mounted the focus turns to getting the carcass finished and glued up and to the finishing details. First up is to g...

Part 17: French Polish and Pig Suede

Well I’m back home in Canada and after getting a bunch of household maintenance jobs out of the way and spending a very long time getting the surfa...

mesa boogie amp head

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Part 5: amp face

Getting closer to completion. Yesterday my buddy came over and we rounded over the edges of the front, sanded and hogged out the hole for the logo....

Part 6: Assembly and sanding

Got a little progress on this thing. My time had been taken up a lot with the baby and projects for my wife, so this is going pretty slow but you g...

Part 7: finishing up

Over the week and this morning I finally got all of the construction tidbits out of the way. It’s finally ready for finishing. But before the amp c...

My Woodcarving Adventures

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Part 1: Getting started

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...

Workbench / Outfeed Table #1

Part 9: Drawer Boxes

Well hello my woodworking buddies. Let me tell you things have been so crazy around here the last week & 1/2. So many disappointments have hit ...

Part 10: Drawers Installed

Well the drawers are installed. Need to hang two more doors and make the huge pull out drawer and install that yet.

Part 11: wheels go round and round

Well the shop was completely cleaned up over the weekend by my wife and I. we took all the equipment out of the shop. including the new workbench. ...

Clock build (grandchildren)

Part 1: Clock (Grandchildren )

Im make grandchildren clocks for five different orders. So, I’ve been juggling the clocks and building my workbench and repairing my thickness plan...

Part 2: Clocks are getting done

Well here is the 4 Clocks that need to delivered. All the Numbers and names of the customers grandkids are laser engraved to a depth of 1/16" +. Ma...

Workshop Tour Challenge

Part 1: Announcement

How does your creative kingdom look? What are your favorite tools? Prepare a tour of your workshop and share it with your WoodworkingWeb buddies fo...

Part 2: One Day Left

Lots of great workshop tours posted already and you have less than 24 hours to post yours for a chance to win a $100 online gift card from your fav...

Part 3: And the Winner Is ...

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Workshop Tour Challenge. You can see the entries here. And the winner of the random draw is: Larry Ci...

kdc68's Workshop

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Part 1: My basement retreat

This is my retreat. It’s 10′ × 30′ total. There’s a masonry wall dividing the whole basement in half. Eventually the ideal scenario would be spread...

My Wood Shop

Part 1: Wheaties

This is the entrance to my Shop . In case your wondering the the sign he is holding says MR Goodlooking works here . This is my office and finishin...

1st cabinets

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Part 1: Kitchen cabinets and doors

The framing on this doors are made of red oak and the inserts are hand cut slats out off old pallets. This was my first time to build any style of ...