HAVE YOU READ A GOOD BOOK LATELY?

THESE ARE EASY TO DO ! PLUS ITS BETTER TO HAVE ALL YOUR DRILL BITS ROUTER BITS IN ORDER.ON THE SPINE OF EACH BOOK MARK WHATS IN IT? AS YOU NOTICE THE BACKSIDE OF TIMBER HOUSING THE CUTTER HAVE [...]

NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

REMEMBER THOSE READERS DIGEST HARD BACKS. THIS IS WHAT I DID  WITH THEM? I TURN THEM INTO DRILL ROUTER CUTTER STORAGE UNITS? DRILLS FROM 1/2INCH TO 1/16 EVEN ROUTER CUTTERS.THIS IS A ONE OFF [...]

Carved (and Quite Cool) Sawbench

This week we received a visit from James Travis, who built what could be the most ornate sawbench. Travis, who is in his early 20s, was traveling through Cincinnati on his way from Boston to San [...]

Tape Trick No. 347

There is a special satisfaction to solving a problem with tape. Yes, it’s nice to master the tools and techniques of our forefathers, but it’s a lot more fun to say “Look at [...]

You Want a Pizza or a Twin-screw Vise?

This is the last post on Joseph Moxon’s double-screw vise. Promise. Wednesday morning while I was in the shower, my brain clicked. (Hey! twice in one month!) On Tuesday, Glen Huey and I [...]

THE CLS TIMBER GARDEN TREE SEAT

THIS IS MADE ENTIRELY FROM 3X2 AND 8X2 CLS TIMBER.CLS TIMBER IS NORMALLY USED FOR STUD WORK.THIS CLS TIMBER HAS BEEN SEALED WITH CLEAR THOMPSONS WATER SEAL FOR TIMBER.I SPRAYED IT ON ALL THE [...]

Do You Like Swedes With Bigger Legs?

The Skansen bench that I built for the April 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine has proved to be a popular project with readers. But if you like, you can do a better job of emulating the [...]

THE FILE BOWL

THIS BOWL HAS BEEN TURNED USING ONLY GROUND ENGINEERING FILES. ITS WAS SCREWED TO FACE PLATE ,THEN THE BACK TURNED.THE DOG TEETH YOU SEE ON BOWL WAS THEN FIXED TO LATHE. AND THE BACKSIDE OF [...]

Details on the Divided-light Door

In my DVD “Building Furniture With Hand Planes,” we offer plans for a Shaker Hanging Cabinet, which is what I’m working on throughout the DVD. However, as some viewers have [...]

Another Blog, Another Bench

Now that Editor Christopher Schwarz is done with his latest bench build (you can read about it on his blog , and in the August issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, which mails in a couple [...]

A Table for Every Occasion

The invention of the table is a great idea. The first person to realize that stuff could be put at their fingertips, rather than having to bend over to retrieve it, probably had a sore back and [...]

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