The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Season 32
Calling All Tool Geeks! Roy Underhill has your number in Season 32. I have a hard time coming up with interesting new ideas for dinner, so I’m always in awe when Roy manages to pull together [...]
Build a Greene & Greene Dining Chair
The early 1900s Arts & Crafts movement is frequently recognized as a reaction to the industrial revolution with a strong emphasis on hand-crafted furniture, pottery, metalwork and art. All [...]
Take the Fear Out of Chairmaking
When you make a table it’s fairly straightforward. Four legs (or some variation thereof) and a top. Not too hard. If you choose to splay the legs, then you’ve added some geometry and math to the [...]
Video: Level a Chair á la Christopher Schwarz
About a year-and-a-half ago, Christopher Schwarz got a bunch of woodworkers together for a sawbench building party at John Hoffman’s house outside Indianapolis. Chris was using us as guinea [...]
Offset Turning with Alf Sharp
I’m not really a turner (only when I have to), and I’m not a big fan of math (words are my thing), so when Alf Sharp starts to talk about offset turning and the math he used to figure out …
The Table Saw: When Was Your First Time?
Do you remember the first time you used a table saw? Was it in shop class? Did your father, or grandfather show you how? My first time was with my father at the age of 15. But it wasn’t in …
Add a New Skill (Leaded Glass) to Your Shop!
While growing up I had never been enamored of stained or leaded glass in my home furnishings – Tiffany glass lamps were usually a bit too frilly for my tastes. But that all changed when I [...]
‘Make a Traditional English Tool Chest’
I have a love-hate relationship with “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” the book (now in its eighth printing) that inspired our new “Make a Traditional English Tool Chest” DVD [...]
Traditional Basket Weaving as Woodworking?!
Our new video, “Traditional Basket Weaving,” is about to drop on February 5th at shopwoodworking.com, and I can honestly say that I am blown away. I have seen plenty of woven baskets [...]
Hand-Crafted Bookcase
My background is mostly based in family run businesses that depend on woodworking to put food on the table and keep the lights on. Because of this, I learned to make furniture with power tools. [...]
The Advanced Art of Veneering
Working with veneer when there are multiple pieces being glued at once-or an oddly-shaped piece that’s hard to clamp always gave me pause. I was aware of vacuum bags, but thought of them as [...]
The Art of Spoon Carving
Contrary to what some people who know me might think, I do use silverware on a regular basis. But I’d be lying if I said I spend any time thinking about my silverware. Spoons for example. I have [...]
