Today I have been working on the basket bottoms. They are made from 2 pieces with a glue joint down the middle. The wood is pretty thin, about 5 mm...

This project is almost finished. If I’m lucky the three main components of the baskets will be glued together tomorrow. Here’s what was done in pre...

At the end of the last blog the sides and bottom had been glued up and the foot frames and top rim frames had been each glued together in preparati...

I saw a picture of a pattern on google that I though would be fun to make. It looks like a rugby/American football ball in a square centered on the...

In part one of this blog I went through making the stock of the pattern and sliced it into squares. This blog is the glue up of the pattern Hide gl...

So like most part-time woodworkers, my shop is small. 15′ × 15′ was the size that I was given by the boss. It’s home to all my equipment, other hob...

We tried hard to make it dead simple to follow the members that inspire you as well as to follow the discussions that you want to participate in. I...

It’s good to include a link to a cool Youtube or Vimeo video in your posts. But it’s even better to have the interactive video player directly in y...

As I mentioned in my Mobile / Tablet Friendly post, WoodworkingWeb was designed with mobile users in mind. This also comes handy when you want to p...

As you know, here at the Stumpy Nubs Workshop we like to bend the rules. Something we even break them. But most often we simply create a nasty kink...

When you’re building a traditional piece of furniture, it makes sense to keep everything… well, traditional. You wouldn’t put a digital face on a T...

I still have 2 or 3 spaces to fill on the tree and some on the hand, plus the work on the holes from the packet nails. Besides that, many details h...

You might be wondering why there hasn’t been a post on this blog for some time. I have just been occupied with, you guessed it, garden work and get...

The veneer press worked perfectly for me using the hot hide glue. I brushed glue on the picture back and the substrate and rubbed it in with circul...

This is an ebay find. I took a chance thinking it might be a type 1. This time it paid off. The before: And the now: It’s complete and all look par...

In between getting a bunch of new old planes ready for resale I decided to resurrect this Sargent #5418. This was one of those impulse buys. It was...

More pictures on my blog I’ve got a very strict rule about computers. After the 2nd cocktail, I don’t return work emails and I don’t buy on ebay. B...

Some of the most popular videos we make at the Stumpy Nubs Workshop are the “Old-Timey Woodworking” series. People love to see how things were done...

Who doesn’t like pine? It’s inexpensive, abundant, it looks great and the smell reminds me of the air freshener in my car. But the best thing about...

Last fall I entered my “Music” table in the Sidney Fine Arts Show on Vancouver Island and while it didn’t sell, it did attract a lot of attention. ...

I didn’t take any photos of the ebonizing process originally, but since several people expressed an interest I made a little video today. It shows ...

I can heave a sigh of relief now. The client just came and picked up the tables this afternoon and she loved them. Like all of us, I am never reall...

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