Woodworking Blogs

It’s getting into the home stretch, I think. I sanded off (using 220 grit) the excess white grain-filler, then hit the handle with a coat of Tru-Oi...

I spent a lot of time online looking at images of mid-century modern chairs looking for inspiration for the base.  I kept coming back to this recli...

With one of the salvaged shell sections selected,  I worked on a number of overlapping tasks in repetitive iterations - looking at orientation, sea...

90 minutes in the shop this morning, but quite a bit of progress. First, I shaped the handle a bit more. When Greg tried it on Friday, we made mar...

About two hours more work (for two handles) mostly with a spokeshave and a knife, but also with some rasp work and a pencil to mark what I want to ...

The previous owner of our house installed a hot tub 25-30 years ago, and I was able it keep it going for the last 10 years we've own it with practi...

Another hour, some more progress. I started rounding the shafts with my homemade spokeshave, but that’s set for a pretty rough cut, and I was getti...

Needed a better picture for the first pic, the next one maybe not the best intro :-) [IMG_2989.jpeg] I have been extremely distracted of late. I g...

This morning’s progress was marking the position for the hole in the tenon, [IMG_9240.jpeg] [IMG_9241.jpeg] [IMG_9247.jpeg] Then offsetting it b...

Next up, making the shafts rounder, but first, done quick fine-tuning of the tenons with a float. I had aimed to make the mortises slightly larger ...

Had another half-hour in the shop this morning. Got the tenons double-checked and cut, and they’re each just a hair too big for their respective ha...

   My Wife and I moved into our own Home 10 years ago last February... In the Apartment we had just left, my Shop was located in the Cellar... a Ce...