WARNING, LONG AND POTENTIALLY VERY BORING BLOG! Shortly after finishing my Chevalet Paul aka Shipwright asked me if I...

The previous segment of this blog we ended with two arches. One had a lot of creep and the other not so much. I have never cleaned any arched piece...

I spent the last 2 weekends working on the top and it is now done. This blog is a little too long but did not want to brake it into two. I asked Be...

At the end of blog #6 we left off with the top done. Here is the top with a couple of coats of spar urethane. I looked at many finish for outdoor a...

To have a double roof, you need a double header. The math is the same as before, but you have to decide how big you want the upper roof to be. This...

I don’t know how exciting this will be. What can I say, it’s sheathing and shingles. The following two pictures show the upper and lower frieze, in...

I searched and searched, but I can’t find any pictures of the rest of the process. As I said in the previous blog, the wife wasn’t exactly up for t...

Another week of our Magazine Giveaway it’s time to pick one winner randomly from all of our members that posted at least one creation. The Winner i...

Another week of our Magazine Giveaway it’s time to pick one winner randomly from all of our members that posted at least one creation. The Winner i...

Today was the last day to enter our Magazine Giveaway and it’s time to choose the last winner randomly from all of our members that posted at least...

And some more

finally proof that the long winter is over. Our first local flea market of 2014. Maybe not one of my best days, but definitely not my worst either....

Here is a spot to show off your latest acquisitions. Whether its a flea market , garage sale or yard sale or craig list find, show it off. Mine fro...

The sewing box I made for the wife is very heavy. It was never made to be carried around, but rather to sit near her sewing table and give her extr...

My company vehicle decided to take a couple of days off by crapping a front wheel bearing so I had some extra time to spend in the shop today. Pick...

On a recent business trip to Sarasota, FL I bought a rusty hand plane that I found on CL. The markings indicate it is a Bailey No. 4 Type 15. If an...

I’m using the electrolysis process for most of the cleaning. I chose this method because I already had everything I needed from other non-woodworki...

Today, I did good. I found a Millers-Falls Brace almost brand-new and a little hand-crank drill. I also found three tiny carving tools from E.C. Mu...

I learned a valuable lesson tonight. I learned how to quickly make a sliding tray with finger joints and a floating poplar bottom to the wrong dime...

I made my drawers for my toolbox this weekend. I was going to use half-blind dovetails on the fronts but I decided more for practicality and streng...

I needed something that would hold the saws in place in the flip-top and be easy to remove. I also am doing everything I can not to use screws or n...