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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 ...

When I ended the last segment I had just tried out the router plane. It needed a little tuning so the next day I honed and adjusted it a little and...

I have just finished up and shipped my project for the LJs 2022 knife swap. This was a first for me, as I’ve never made a knife before…well, I stil...

Boy and Girls, While waiting for my new compressor to get delivered (monitoring the phone in the office), rather than twiddle my two dodgy thumbs,...

Boys and Girls, I'll keep this short. A higher percentage of us woodies, needlers, leathernecks and matalurgists are approaching the ++ side of s...