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Need to test the run-out on a drill press? Grab your Starrett 657AA and a dial indicator. This magnetic base holds strong to the table of your dril...

For $2, acquired a new book. What a book it is. Measures over 3” thick printed on vellum. I estimate over 1,000 pages. Printed in 1959. [IMG_8840....

I can't really tell if the ends of the stretchers on the original chair had shoulders around the tenons or not.  I decided that I would use shoulde...

Side rabbet plane. They had this priced at $48 [IMG_8810.jpeg] I talked them down to $20. Just because I love a bargain. EDIT: at $48, I don’t k...

While I had been thinking about how to make the arms from the time I had started scheming to build this chair, by the time I got to this point, I s...

In this project, I'll be building a pair of chairs modeled after Hans Wegner's, "Bukkestolen", which he designed for Johannes Hansen in 1959. Weg...

With the leg finger joints complete, I could trim the legs to their final shape.   This could have been done more quickly on the table saw with a p...

The red tools neither venture into the salvage yard all that often nor last long when they do. The folks at the salvage yard are also unaware of th...

I think that the row of finger joints between the arm and leg is a perfect example of honest design.  The joint provides incredible strength to the...

For $8 — not a typo Minty in the box I am shook It had no price. That usually means $1-$5 Greg, the guy ringing me up took one look at it, look...

Imperial, 1/1000th of an inch accuracy For $8 — actually marked as $8. No haggling, just a pristine minty dial caliper falling in my lap. Had one ...

I have "migrated" to Craftisian from LumberJocks. I was pretty disappointed when the new LJ forum design appeared (or shall we call it "monetizing"...