Craftisian Blogs

[IMG_8886.jpeg] Ok, time to decide on how you plan to attach the assembly to something to give it a life. I use a vacuum bag for veneering. That ...

I picked up this load of number 1 common wormy maple for my kids bunk bed project.  I was drawn to it because I like maple and, frankly, it was che...

[IMG_7711.jpeg] Just a quick and dirty project to use up some smalls and keep this organized when I’m doing something like this morning’s bench gl...

Well what do you know I just realised I could have done a Queen Anne Blog in a series of parts! Never mind this will be the last you subjects will ...

These are words I tell myself in the throes of the process: Any fool can put something together. It takes a special kind of fool to design somethi...

OK the frame of the small table was my next bling job I think I spent more time making a template  than what the actual profiling work took first...

as promised I played with QA legs today and added some bling. First up was a radius profile of the outside. Once I had the right height all the le...

It was evident that the rust present on this plane was mostly just surface rust. And I didn't really want to do a rust conversion because that woul...

Picking up where we left-off in the previous post in this series, where we had a look at the physical materials (the wood, fasteners, rods, bolts, ...

Building the boxes that will become part of a wall unit and bar. [20230506_105312.jpg] Basically a hybrid Euro style. Some with a face frame and so...

I am no stranger to saws. American push saws. I had never used a pull saw and to be quite honest, I had never even heard of one until 2020. I bough...

This plane is going to need a body, or carcass if you will. Something to hang the blade off of, optionally provide a handle, and allow for the 3 ar...