Enjoying woodworking
I skipped Pennsbury yesterday and spent the day carving instead. When I began my Chippendale chair project, I under estimated how much I would enjoy carving. Sounds a little funny to say out loud [...]
New Shooting Board from Evenfall Studios
A shooting board is one of the most essential accessories for a handplane , everyone should have one. But not every woodworker is confident enough to build one or isn’t able to build one [...]
TIMBER FLOOD
ON THE 21ST OF JANUARY 2008 TIMBER FLOODED THE SMALL SEASIDE TOWN OF WORTHING WEST SUSSEX ENGLAND. 2000 TONS OF MIX TIMBER MAINLY 6 X 2 INCH HIT US.AND BUILDERS FROM ALL OVER THE UK LANDED [...]
Well, it is Called 'Compass Inlay'
I’m near Philadelphia this week teaching at Acanthus Workshops. This is Chuck Bender’s woodworking school. (You know Chuck, he wrote the “Carving Spanish Feet” article in [...]
PUB TABLES
TWO TABLES I MADE FOR COUNTRY PUB HERE.JUST GOT TO BE SANDED THEN STAINED BEFORE TRANSIT. ME SITTIN AT TABLE.…
TOOL STEEL
SOME OF THE COBALT TOOLS I USE TO TURN PLUS SOMETIMES I USE THE ZEUS BOOK FOR FINER GRINDING FOR INTRICATE TURNING ITS THE IDEAL TOOL ROOM BOOK.THIS VERSION IS 1976 MAYBE THEY UPDATED A NEW [...]
Big Teeth, Little Teeth
I have three favorite jokes. One of them starts out with, “What’s brown and sticky?” The second one is from journalism school. It goes like so: “People complain about bias [...]
Small Scraps and Simple Pleasures
Last Friday afternoon I was paid a surprise visit by my girlfriend. She had the day off, so it was nice to have her see a day in the life of an Associate Editor for the Web. Unfortunately, [...]
New Tenon Saw From Lie-Nielsen Toolworks
In the world of backsaws, almost all the modern makers have perfected their version of a dovetail saw. But when it comes to tenon saws, things are all over the map. Some are difficult to start or [...]
Some Assembly Required
You’d think I’d know better. But being in desperate need of one place where I could store and easily access all my music CDs, I was seduced by the clearance price and vintage look of [...]
'Wood Smart' Wood Samples
Growing up in Arkansas, it seemed we had two kinds of wood: yellow pine and pine that was yellow. I didn’t really start to understand the crazy diversity of lumber available until my [...]