Craftisian Blogs

As you may have noticed, we keep improving at a rapid pace lately. Today the spotlight is on the new WOODS & TOOLS tagging of the creations. Ri...

In part one of this blog I went through making the stock of the pattern and sliced it into squares. This blog is the glue up of the pattern Hide gl...

This project is almost finished. If I’m lucky the three main components of the baskets will be glued together tomorrow. Here’s what was done in pre...

I wonder … why do you do woodworking?

With the legs already cut to length its time to glue them up. I have the joinery drawn out on the top roughly so that after cutting the boards the ...

The building of the tail vise is not an easy accomplishment. I started to build the vise when I was invaded by the daughter and grand kids carving ...

With all the cutting and sand shading done and all the pieces properly organized, it’s time to have some fun. If you’ve done everything right up to...

Today I have been working on the basket bottoms. They are made from 2 pieces with a glue joint down the middle. The wood is pretty thin, about 5 mm...

I saw a picture of a pattern on google that I though would be fun to make. It looks like a rugby/American football ball in a square centered on the...

Work Bench Build #3 Wood Selection And Layout I got to use the bench to build a bench right away to lay out the boards for the top. But I removed t...

I had big plans for lots of progress today, but I wound up doing a lot of chauffeur work instead so I didn’t get into the shop until late afternoon...

Today I finished the scrolling and got the sides ready for the bottom panels. There are a some important points that are outlined below. GETTING&nb...