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I have not had time at all in the last few months to work on this project. I finally just got back in the shop a couple weeks ago after the summer ...

[20210714_185620.jpg] I recently purchased a Dunlap 103.23622 bench top drill press at an estate sale for $40. I thought it was such a nice deal th...

It seems that workshop postings have slowed down considerably since Steve posted his. I can’t compete with his, but I’ll show (parts of) our worksh...

Here are the two cabinets that will have the lighting I mentioned in part 1. [20221203_112010.jpg][20221203_112018.jpg] I'm also making shelves th...

With the prototype complete, I assembled the remaining two lamps. [20200201-IMG_3503.jpg] [20200202-IMG_3511.jpg] [20200202-IMG_3512.jpg] The bot...

The interior of the boat was completed before launching, unfortunately without any progress photos so I'll just show some finished shots here. In...

Project images are now displayed in a more appealing way on the project pages. Large featured image is accompanied by a grid of additional project ...

So it turns out that the historically correct way to make a marquetry covered box is with full blind dovetails. OK I'm a good sport. How hard can...

From 2014 This new project is an experiment in many ways. It is my first real venture into hand tools as the main instruments of destruction. It...

This is a bit anticlimactic after the project has been posted but I wanted to keep the "plane box" thing a secret. There were however some cool han...

With the hinge out of the way, one of the tricky fits is history but getting all the corners to match is another thing altogether. The marquetry wa...

With the grooves made and the bottom fitted (1/4" plywood hammer veneered on both sides) the next job was to make the interlocking rebates for the ...