55 Best Shop-made Jigs
Here’s a great gift idea for the tech-savvy woodworker in your life. You can bring this CD right into the shop on your laptop computer and build these innovative and ingenious jigs! Learn [...]
Round Two of Bottle Stoppers
As you can see, I used some smaller diameter cherry stock to work out the transition from the bottle top to the mushroom, but I’m not happy with the result. The bottom section fits [...]
GREEN BOTTLES
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR EMPTY BOTTLES? XMAS TREE DECORATIONS ???? JUST MY IDEA OF DECORATIONS……
For Accurate & Heavy Sawing, Try a ‘Shangie’
One of the great joys of reading old woodworking magazines is that they includes lots of tidbits that aren’t in old woodworking books – such as the one I found last night about the “Shangie.” [...]
Emily’s clock
As we get closer to winter here in New York, I thought that it was about time to wrap up showing the summer projects that my woodworking students in Belmont Hill School have built. Emily’s [...]
New (to the USA) Source for Hand-cut Rasps
In a recent post, I talked about using rasps and in a response to one of the comments, I mentioned that I was watching my mailbox for the arrival of a package from France. Yesterday the box [...]
Rethinking the Traditional Tool Chest
When it comes to most things in woodworking, I’m an easy-going guy. But not with tool chests. I’m OK if you make your sliding dovetails with a router. I’m just Jim Dandy if you sand, scrape or [...]
New Woodshop Nearly Ready
In about three weeks, we’ll be moving into new digs after more than 10 years in our current location. It’s less than a mile away. With the move date fast approaching, the new shop [...]
Too Much Lumber is Never a Bad Thing
Whenever we convene a meeting of the “Should We or Should We Not Print Cutlists Debating Society”, we get tons of responses. In the latest instance an overwhelming number of poll [...]
Warehouse Sale of the Century Extended
Our Warehouse Sale of the Century has been extended. We’ve deeply discounted hundreds of products in our store. There are extremely limited quantities of some items. Hurry because some [...]
Doesn’t that Interfere With Finishing?
The answer is “no.” What’s the question? “Doesn’t (oil, tallow, paraffin, beeswax, snake squeezins, earwax, monkey fat) interfere with finishing?” Still, the answer is “no” – unless you are using [...]
