Craftisian Blogs

This is now my favorite Tool This is my latest invention. It is called the “Aggie Dead Blow Hammer”. For those of you who do not know what an Aggie...

My favorite tool. Sextant. This tool has taken me across several oceans.. About 40 years ago some friends and I decided to sail around the world. W...

I have many tools I really love. Normally my favorite tool is the one which best suits the work I’m doing, or which I enjoy using, but there is one...

Tired of trying to evenly space drawer guides and keep them parallel when mounting them? The Miller FastBlock replaces the commonly used “block of ...

Couple pics of my clamp storage. Nothing fancy but they do the job and take up a minimal amount of shop space. I can’t take credit for the design o...

This is my favourite tool; a well used Veritas bevel up jack plane. I have a 38 degree plane iron in it and a 50 deg. iron for difficult grain. The...

This is my selection of favorite tools . Starting with my workbench and all the accessories I have made for it You can see the foot operated leg vi...

I have been wanting to make myself a plane for the longest time. Finally I got some plane blades from a picker friend of mine. This is the blade an...

Hi wwwfriends, I had the luck to win the Hand Tools Collection competition. This is what was I bought me for the 100 USD prize; the Veritas small s...

It would be difficult to choose a favorite tool. Although these days if you ask my wife she would say I am obsessed with lathes. Of course it is al...

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Hand Tools Collection Challenge. You can see the entries here. And the winner of the random draw is: ...

I got this idea from a Woodsmith magazine article on shop organization a while back. It’s simply a closet organization system minus the shelves. Th...