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For those of you who looked at my tea boxes last week, you know I was taking them and a bunch of other items to a show this past weekend. It was an...

Like many hobby woodworkers I have always felt that my shop was too small. It certainly isn’t large at 228 sq.ft. My growing dissatisfaction made m...

I find it difficult to just sit in the garden and just stare at plants. My idle hands need something to do. Some folks with that problem have tried...

Surprised at the interest, now the pressure is really on (especially with Huff watching) ;) For me the first order of business is to get the bed ha...

The previous segment of this blog we ended with two arches. One had a lot of creep and the other not so much. I have never cleaned any arched piece...

As you know, here at the Stumpy Nubs Workshop we like to bend the rules. Something we even break them. But most often we simply create a nasty kink...

I did a quick dry run with a couple of laminates on the form. I heard crackling. It seemed to me the wood was too dry and the existing stress in th...

Cutting the laminate was the most adventurous part of the project so far. As I stated earlier, I used the 4×6 to cut the laminate from. Dimensions:...

In keeping with my pledge to only use leftover and recycled material, I decided not to buy the construction plywood to make the form but to use som...

While going through my favorite pictures I remember this table: http://lumberjocks.com/projects/51352 I thought now is the time to try and build it...

Busy busy weekend in the shop. Several different projects going on at the same time. Just the right time for some wires to burn. My saw is a hand m...