Craftisian Blogs

The rear edge of the seat frame has 4 loose tenons glued in place.  The protruding tenons dry fit into corresponding mortises in the rear stretcher...

The arms have a long taper from full 5/4" thickness at the rear down to about 1/2" at the front.  I made a sled to hold the arm in place and elevat...

(Originally posted in October 2022) In the summer of 2022, I started a project to replace the skirting around the perimeter of my deck using 5/4 p...

With the router jigs for the side assemblies completed, I could get to work cutting some mortises.     Cutting the mortise for the lower rear stre...

Boys and Girls,   Due to my feeble retention capacity,  I’ve been using a password protection program app for nearly longer than computers existed....

Ask and received from Penn State a pdf of their Bushing Book.    It has a table of contents listing all their bushings and a page number to drawing...

Boys and Girls, While wading through my past stuff still “unique” to LJ and some banter about scrapers here at Craftisian, I decided to migrate thi...

So I built this folding workbench a while back and the extra working space has been so good.  I can pack it away by my sheet-good storage to get an...

Boys and Girls, Centre finders got tossed up in one of the threads her at Craftisian, which prompted the excuse for migrating this across for LJ...

Got my workbench upgrades done.  It didn't seem like much before I started but this did in fact take a little time. I made 20 brackets for hinge p...

Hey Guys, I had some questions regarding how I made gears and I thought I might as well give you the complete rundown.  Perhaps the best thing to ...

In this series I want to show what different techniques I use to make my models. I appreciate comments, especially if you come up with another prop...