Craftisian Blogs

My last pair of blanks are for the armrests.  I started by planing them down to 5/8" thick, which is the final thickness for rear of the armrest.  ...

There were a couple things I wanted to verify before the final glue-up: • Could I keep the paracord lacing tight enough so that it would support a ...

It's been a while since I was on here, to my old friends and everyone else, I hope you are keeping well and navigating life's challenges the best y...

Simultaneously aligning all 4 components of a side assembly gave me fits.  Very slight errors in length and/or angles meant that as I sequentially ...

Most of the pressure-treated scraps from my deck skirting project were pretty narrow - around 1-1/8" wide.  Most of the blanks needed for the chair...

As mentioned earlier, the armrest will fit into a 1/8" deep recess on the top of the arm.  I made this router jig (from scraps) to use to cut the r...

On the heels of completing a second deck chair based on Wegner's GE-375 from pressure-treated decking, I still had some scraps left over.  Enough f...

As with the other replica chairs I've made, it requires spending quite a bit of time looking at example photos from different angles in order to ma...

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 Working with :- 8 x 5M x 75mm x 25mm 2 x 4M x 75mm x 25mm 2 x 2.5M  x 75mm x 25mm 11 x 1.5M x 75mm x 25 mm all rough sawn timber [IMG_1157.JPG] ...

Whats going on in the Timbermate house Who is Earl and whats with the crown? My latest purchase surprised me with a complete make over on labeling....

I made some trivets with simple images on the cheap home center plain white tiles in another project. [IMG_8376.jpeg] Simply put, this black on th...