Our front gate, which is now 4 years old, started sagging enough recently that it wouldn’t latch any more. I was a little disappointed by the compa...

Here are a few pictures of the marquetry and routing in the inlays. By only using two veneers for the marquetry, Gaboon Ebony & Holly with the back...

I've done a previous blog on a similar item, but this time I'm including the design process for those of you who are interested. Making another pa...

 [02.07 Design - Cart Details.jpg] The support brace is a large open triangle that connects the cart’s base and rear panel. The top of the brace ...

 [12.13 - Finish and Assembly - Finished Rack.jpg] With the brace finished, the rack was almost ready to assemble. I started by adding the top cap...

  [13.03 Fixes - Base Weight Rebar in Base.jpg]   When I brought the assembled rack inside, I was pleased to see that it was quite stable when the...

I intended to do this all in one entry but I ran into a bit of a dilemma.  The tool I'm working with is an Ashley Iles 60 degree, 1/2" inch tool wi...

This one isn't exactly on sharpening but it does have to do with using abrasives on a tool blade so I thought I'd throw it in here.  This is a copy...

Haven't had a chance to get back to carving tools but I had a couple pocket knives that needed a refresh this weekend so I thought it would be wort...

Rather than drag the 4" hose around from machine to machine for my Oneida Supercell I decided to install a 4" PVC dust collection system.  The 4" h...

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...

I'm going to start off by admitting I'm guilty of procrastinating on getting this posted.  I kept telling thinking of one more thing that I wanted ...

Not a whole lot on this one.  I'm building a small melamine kitchen for my sales rep at the lumber store. Along with the cabinets I'm going to mak...

This was something I built for one of my buddies.   It was built for, and installed in the offices of a company that races Porsche's.  (Hence the r...

Anybody want to come help me cut up these sheets? They're 83 1/2 x 110 That is a 4 x 8 on top for comparison. [20240529_080545.jpg]

Ok. Here is the primary reason I'm building these side tables. Plans were to keep the tables stupid-simple to avoid any drama. I violated my goal ...

[IMG_9043.jpeg] Best laid plans..... Anyhoo, busy weekend with car work so I couldn't get as far as intended (finish applied), but wait, there's m...

Apologies to the Doors! [IMG_0165.jpeg] Finally the finish has been sprayed. Base coat is Mohawk vinyl sealer, top coat satin pre-cat lacquer. Pr...

 The outer ring is made up of 4 blanks. The first one is shown below. [image.png]   The blank is a rectangle in cross section with a trough cut do...

 I had put steps on each side of the outer ring blanks. These steps were to be used to have a reference surface parallel to the trough axis. But af...

  This last step is pretty straightforward – especially compared to the previous steps. I just need to get a cylinder that looks good.    First I d...