Woodworking Blogs

This is the blog describing how i made this chair. For a long time I have had this corner of my garden that have a place for a bonfire. We use it...

   I was informed on Christmas Eve that long-standing LJ'er David Mitchell/Patron is no longer with us. He passed away quietly in Hospice Care in S...

This whole series have all the time evolved around making a set of dining chairs out of two large slabs of European elm that was saved at my mother...

I didn't invent this technique. I found a tutorial a few decades ago by someone named Michael Henderson. I am not 100% sure, but I think these are ...

Summer is over and work, my business and life in gerneral have taken almost all my time. And my chair project have slowed down considerable. But in...

Boys and Girls, This was posted at LJ on the 26th. December, 2017 as a project.  I have migrated it across and slapped it under my Hints series ...

Boys and Girls, Lately I have been taking more notice of workshops than actual projects and have acclimatised myself to getting canned for my ch...

I don't get it.  Pure Tung oil is a fantastic finish, but nearly every article I read and even the product directions make what I think is a mistak...

A few pictures from the Japanese Lacquerware museum in Wajima showing the techniques and tools used.  Look carefully at the numbers of the pictures...

This is for Bryan. Some years ago I went to Myanmar which has a lacquerware craft industry but on a smaller scale to Japan.  Its based in Bagan.  ...

Hello, I am new here.... Site pointed out by Dutchie Patterns! Retired for 10 years and do a lot of model building.. Mainly models from Toys&Joys a...

The weft weaving starts in one corner, attaching the a doubled cord (roughly 120ft length folded in half) at its center onto a side rail.  This is ...