‘The Traitor’s Tool Chest’ Now Available on DVD
When I first mentioned the topic of my latest DVD, my e-mail inbox filled up with messages such as: “This project is beneath you. Beneath all of us. You traitor.” And that’s the G-rated version. [...]
Highland Woodworking – 35 Years Young
A happy 35th anniversary to Highland Woodworking (nee Highland Hardware) in Atlanta, Ga., and congratulations to its founders, Chris and Sharon Bagby, for offering the best tool selection in the [...]
Q & A: Salvaging a Rusty Plane Iron
Q: I’ve got an old plane that my grandfather left me. I’d like to use it, but its cutting iron is really rusty. Do I need to buy a new one? A: Don’t throw away that iron yet. Flattening the …
The Dough BoxPart 3 of 4
Are you a tails or pins first kind of woodworker? If you want to start the woodworker’s equivalent of a bar fight, simply blurt out in a crowd of woodworkers that the best way to cut [...]
Make Moulding with SketchUp
When it comes time to make mouldings with SketchUp, many woodworkers struggle. They get the hang of making each piece a component, and figure out that a moulding is simply an extruded face. Where [...]
A Two-day Traditional-looking Tool Chest
As regular blog readers know, I have too many tools with no home – so I’ve been building an “Anarchist’s Tool Chest” – a traditional English chest – a la Christopher [...]
Drawer Construction Details Make Life Easier
Woodworkers are shy people – especially at the beginning of their journey. They make parts or assemblies oversized and then plane, sand or rasp them to fit. On one hand, this makes sense. It’s [...]
My new cutting board design
A year ago I blogged about the cutting board workshop I gave on a Manhattan rooftop. The thing is that I also like to make and sell cutting boards. I love the simplicity and the [...]
New This Year at Woodworking in America: Silas Kopf
Sila Kopf, renowned marquetarian will be one of the featured speakers at this year's Woodworking in America conference, held October 18-20, 2013 in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.
Friday’s Tip for May 10th
Adjustable Curves Laying out a large curve with a cobbled-together, oversize compass is a pain in the neck. Instead I use a bowed slat that can be adjusted to any curve. I used to bend the slat [...]
THE RAILWAY SLEEPERS
THE SLEEPER BENCH AND SEATS . THIS TIMBER WAS CAREFULLY PICKED FROM A YARD . SOME WERE BOWED SOME WARPED . BUT MANAGED TO PICK THE BEST I COULD FIND . .AFTER MACHINING / MOULDING THEN MARKING OUT [...]
I Want to Give You ‘Go Fever’
In some high technology circles there is an expression they use when engineers move too quickly to launch a project. They have “go fever” and are willing to overlook horrible mistakes in order to [...]