Woodworking Blogs

Hello, Last year my wife wants a new coffee table. It must also be built easily. My wife would know myself better. I built the table but in my own ...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was a shop teacher for a number of my years in education. In 1985, I had the opportunity to open a brand spank...

There are two institutions to be given credit for how well I have been able to equip my shop for so little money and in so little space. They canno...

When we bought a winter home in Green Valley AZ. in 2007 it didn’t take me long to realize that I couldn’t spend half of the year without a shop. T...

A couple of weeks ago I got an unexpected package in the mail from my good friend Klaus (aka kiefer). Inside was a hand made veneer hammer with his...

I am Jeff Walsma of the Dutch Carpenter and i want to let everyone know how simple and fun things are to make out of your own scrap wood.Instead of...

Dowels and glue only, no nails screws or brackets

Hello, I wanted to do something different. An image with a 3D marquetry. The final image This image has inspired me. Print and prepare the subject ...

As I mentioned in my first entry (This isn’t actually my first entry, although the title says so), I was an Industrial Arts teacher for a number of...

I am looking for some ideas for making a silverware tray. The boss does not want me to use thick wood so I am looking for ideas/plans using 1/4 or ...

I left off last time with this photo from “Masterpieces of Marquetry” that I chose to adorn the bump-out verticals where the centre drawers stick o...

Jan. 15, 2015 It’s been another dreary, cold and damp day; just barely into the 40’s. Have felt like “poop” so I didn’t make it out to the “wood sh...