Craftisian Blogs

I made this knife some time ago from a HHS. saw blade. This little knife has never performed. I just could not get it sharp. After reading up on it...

The other day I was asked by my wife to take some stuff to her church sale. i did as asked. When I got there somebody had left this thing at the do...

I am left handed so I had to install the vice at the wrong end of the table, because I had no lights in the garage. Since then I have install light...

Back in 1980, I moved from Richardson, Texas to Denton, Texas to finish my bachelor’s degree. After bouncing from Texas A&M to two junior colle...

After I got my new Exterior door for the lid of the bench I needed to enable some hold-downs. Since the top is made from particle board 1.75" thick...

I’m slowly starting to get a decent bit of kit together and with many thanks to Jack I now have these little beauties to add to it ? They’ve given ...

Finally got round to trying out the new tools and found them a dream to work with. I got inspired to have a go at some relief carving and practicin...

This is a blog of making a bench on the cheep. Remodeling the house I had some left over old doors 4×4 and other stuff. this was made into a work b...

This interview with Manitario is from May, 2016. 1. What is your “inspiration story” — where did your interest in woodworking all begin? I’m not re...

In a previous post I showed some logs that were given to me. https://woodworkingweb.com/creations/2765-free-bois-d-arc-osage-orange. I finally got ...

My two new hens are fantastic and provide lots of eggs unfortunately the other three rejected them and kept trying to attack them. This was wasn’t ...

Things have been very hectic lately and along with that lots of paperwork needed to be done. I hate paperwork with a passion and still have a fair ...