Craftisian Blogs

Hi, My name is NGONI. My full name is Ngonidzashe Michael Chinyamurindi. I am a multimedia artist from Zimbabwe, Africa. I have worked as a profess...

Haven’t been able to get out to the “Wood Shop” in a while. Fighting sinus crud and the weather’s been a bit chilly, for this Texan. Forties and dr...

“March” is such a fine month — filled with the beginnings of such great things!!! March is my favourite month – -filled with the worst of winter, s...

My shop is nothing big but it gets the job done, of course unless I am working on a big project then its waiting until a nice day to work outside. ...

Well today I took a trip to the sawmill I get my lumber from and just wanted to share it with you. I went there to pick up some more Hickory for my...

I did get the finger joints cut last night after all and still had time enough to shovel snow. These pictures are dry fit. The joints are good. I’m...

Well the doors are all glued up and routed. I sanded them to 150 but I qant to go to 180 before putting on the tung oil. Then im heading to slot th...

After my 3rd build i realize that my woodworking skills need to improve. But the gods thing is i have time. Also i need more tools to get the job d...

I got the pieces glued up and cleaned up. I used biscuits to join them. Thorrein suggested using splines. I wish I’d seen that before I did the bis...

So I have a good friend that came to me with a project. He has a mesa boogie combo amp and he wants to remove the amp and build a box to make it a ...

Just a quick note where im at. So far I have taken raw hickory that was stright line ripped and skipped planed to the mitersaw made all my rough le...

The framing on this doors are made of red oak and the inserts are hand cut slats out off old pallets. This was my first time to build any style of ...