Favorite New Tools of 2011
So, with hours to go before the year ends (at least in my time zone), I’ve one more post for 2011: some of Popular Woodworking Magazine‘s favorite new tools for 2011. Caveat: Because [...]
Pennsylvania Spice Box Build – Done on Time (Barely)
On December 16, I wrote that I was attempting a Pennsylvania spice box build with a string-and-berry inlaid door, in an insane time frame (without access to the Popular Woodworking Magazine [...]
Shaker step stool part 6: Completed pieces + screws and plugs
We finished assembling the pieces and all that was left to do was screw in the screws, make the plugs that hide the screw heads and glue them in. After the glue on the plugs dried my [...]
Don Williams Replicates the Gragg Chair
Of all the furniture of the 18th and 19th centuries, the work of Boston chair maker Samuel Gragg (1772-1855) is some of the most shocking to modern eyes. His elastic, steam-bent chairs are based [...]
RECYCLED CARDBOARD
WHAT DID YOU DO WITH YOUR EMPTY BOXES THIS XMAS??? RECYCLE THEM OR MAKE SOMETHING FROM THEM?? SINCE THE BUILDING GAME HAS HIT A HIGH WITH THE RECCESION ? HAVE TO THINK OF WAYS OF MAKING A LIVING. [...]
Plank Table
The "Other Half" wanted a small Prep table for the kitchen. I had a plank of Oak out in the shopabout 13-1/2' wide. I clean the old boy up, trimmed off the [...]
Precut – Modern Japanese Timber Construction
Last week, author and craftsman, Jay van Arsdale, founder of Daiku Dojo, a Japanese Woodworking group and one of our WIA 2011 instructors, sent me this link to a video on some of the technology [...]
Portuguese Table Cousins
In our October issue #192 of this year, I showed you how to make a little table that my father-in-law had given me from Portugal. It was a nice project because it was easy to make a production [...]
New Closed-throat Routers from Lie-Nielsen
In the great battle to make the best router plane (what, you weren’t aware of the war?), Lie-Nielsen has raised the stakes by introducing two new closed-throat routers. For those of you who don’t [...]
I CHOOSE TOO??
I CHOOSE TO WORK WITH RECYCLED TIMBER ? I DONT HAVE TO WORK WITH IT??? BUT RECYCLED TIMBER IS BETTER AS ITS SAVING THE PLANET BY CHOPPING DOWN LESS TREES ?? YOU HAVE SEEN WHAT I DO ?? [...]
Shaker step stool part 5: Dry-assembly and glue up
Once all the parts were shaped we decided to give the stool a test run. It is important to dry-assemble all the parts prior to gluing them together. We do it to foresee problems that [...]