Dave Polaschek

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_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...

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...

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...

I’ve accumulated a few cans of One Shot Lettering Enamel for use on various projects, plus I have the fine brushes I use with it that I want to kee...

Since we don’t have “shops” to attach things like this to, I’ll just leave this here… When I put up my French cleats when the shop got build 3+ ye...

I got a couple chunks of 4”+ thick pine, roughly 20” wide and 5’ and 4’ long from my trip to MN. [IMG_7202.jpeg] Milling that into pieces my tool...

I got some juniper a while back from Sycamoray. Been slowly working through it, milling it into flat boards, mostly between 1/2 and 1/4 inch thick ...

I’m not certain yet how it’s going to look when done, but I experimented a bit with punched metal this morning. I printed this photo on a piece of...

I needed some veneer softener, so I went looking on the Internet and I found this recipe at Highland Woodworking. Perfect, but my local pharmacy do...