Woodworking Blogs

Well I already missed a week and this will be the second week missed.  Last Monday night my Dad lost his battle to lung cancer and passed. I have b...

I started milling up some walnut for the next urn.  This one will be for my husband, and he picked out the board from what I had stocked up (used t...

From my research, each 1 pound equates to 1 cubic inch.  I have decided to construct the urns I'm building to accommodate the typical plastic tempo...

Wouldn't it be nice to go back to the day before Weathervane 7, and give myself a dope slap. Edit 3/13/25  That would be the 2nd Weathervane 7 blo...

Well here goes another 52 weeks in the shop challenge for myself to get in the shop or even shops more often. I did one of these over on that other...

I should have added this pic to the last chapter, but I couldn't find it. My phone is a mess lately. [getting close 56.JPG] The wing and tail are n...

I haven’t done a very good job with this blog so here’s an update on my urn-building journey. For several months I did not work on the urn as I was...

I'm getting some traction now. Time to get the body in 1 piece. First thing was to clear away everything that was packed around and touching the w...

I played with a few options for the base. Eventually a 3/4" bronze bushing got installed. Dead center. The same marks I put on when the rings got a...

The plan to make the bed side panels next is being postponed. I need to double check my template for the sides before I commit the design to a buil...

https://ece-research.unm.edu/summa/notes/trestle.html [trestle6L.jpg] Do you think the aircraft flew/taxied up the ramp?

I'm at a point where I work on what I feel like. Today I paint, tomorrow something else will happen. I'm playing with my toy, moving parts around t...