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I have done a few dye projects since the last post to this blog but they have been small and not very noteworthy. I did however learn from them a...

The biggest and most dramatic new lesson I learned from the "Facets" project's dyeing was the huge dimensional movement that you can get when you...

Craftisian magic embeds got even more powerful. In addition to automatically turning a copy-pasted Youtube, Vimeo and Craftisian project link into ...

Well, the construction part of this blog is over such as it was, so it's time for a few shots of the finished boats. Again the differences will b...

Boys and Girls.   Another tip migrated across, that may save a few shekels for some.   It was first published at LJ on 28th, December, 2019.  Now...

Boys and Girls,   With the arrival of my new baby… [IMG_8043.png] he was a 100L quite baby boy… I remembered posting a similar topic on LJ back on...

2022: This blog is over ten years old and covers the build of my first chevalet. These links will update all the improvements: https://craftisian.c...

Boys and Girls, A tad of you may have cottoned onto me being a bit of a SketchUp tragic... It is my goto tool for any project... Designing in Sket...

Disclaimer: There is no woodworking content in this post. It exists to show the final pre-veneering steps of the build--the steps that turn cabinet...

There are several ways to attach veneer: hide glue, contact cement, cold glue in a press, etc. The only method I've ever used is the iron-on wood g...

 Up the Creek with a Finished Paddle So, here we go. This will be the final chapter to this series. When we left off the paddle blade and shaft we...

The back panel is very simple. It has a bunch of holes for the mounting bolts. There was nothing hard about them. It has a big hole in the bottom...