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Heres a link for a tool giveaway from popular woodworking and its free. http://popularwoodworking.upickem.net/engine/YourSubmission.aspx?contestid=...
“I’ve cut it twice, and it’s still too short!” That was a running comment in shop, back when I taught wood shop. Often we would here, “Aaarrrgggg!”...
Below, counter clockwise, an overvieuw of my small garage shop. This is my 5 in 1 (saw machine, moulder, mortiser, planer and jointer) combination....
I’m exhausted. I built this over the past 2 days which is a day too long. I wasn’t sure about the height and had problems making it fit the swing t...
I rarely get time to participate in the movements of the woodworking community at large, as everything seems to hit right at the worst moments with...
This past Christmas, we put together a woodworking kit for our 3-yr-old grandson. Now that we are babysitting, we have started putting it to use. H...
So it’s out that the 2015 WIA is in Kansas City, MO this year. Heres a link to their Facebook page. https://m.facebook.com/woodworkinginamerica?_rd...
Well, the velcro kit arrived yesterday afternoon but just as I got it installed a friend showed up and made me go golfing so I didn’t get to try it...
Warning: Lots of photos! Here’s my setup for sand shading one piece at a time. The marquetry has been preliminarily assembled on sticky shelf paper...
Well it’s Valentines day and I only got to work a few hours today. So I ripped my frenchcleats today. Im using the back of the workbench for storin...
I had some free time this afternoon so I decided to make some drawers for one of my shop cabinets. I designed them weeks ago, carefully taking meas...
OK these mistake drawers retrofit into wood slides are finally done. I just need to lubricate the slides and fill the drawers up. I was going to si...