A look into my shop’s tools
Just some of the toys I make do with My "big" drill press The "Frankensaw", two craftsman tablesaws were used to make this saw. One a broke trunion saw, the [...]
What to do with an extra board?
When i made that Floating top table, I had an extra 1x8x6' pine board. Needed a small project for this board. I came up with a "chair' of sorts, called a [...]
Reindeer parts
To make that Reindeer: Basically, just four different kinds of parts, you'll need to make two of the front and back legs a body from that 1×6 Antlers, note the grain [...]
That time of year?
For a Sleigh and a reindeer? out of 1/2" thick pallet slats for a sleigh? just some nails, glue, and an 1/8" dowel or maybe a scrap piece of 1×6 pine for a Reindeer? add a red, [...]
Reclaimed lumber
Picked up some boards that were thrown away at a remodel project down the street and I needed a railing for a front porch and ripped a few boards down for the slatsto make this railing just a [...]
more from that chest of drawers
Details of the end panels and the top's frame the 'wood pile', from old barn siding, most of this went into the end panels Drawer construction, just dovetails on the fronts, with a [...]
Old water bed=new sofa table
glue-ups, end view Top and bottom shelf added All the parts, but the plywood shelf from water bed frames, to this Which's Brew Walnut stain. Size is 16" wide(top) by [...]
Build a Quilt Rack, Windsor style
Glue ups with some of the arms in place Parts, two top rails, a spindle shaped, a foot and an arm Fitted up, posts were turned on on my lathe Some stain and a coat of varnish…
More on a chest of drawers
Drawer parts, awaiting dovetails, face frames screwed in place with plugs over the screws. with some finish on them Back side of the drawers, the screw is a drawer stop, since these will be inset [...]
More Dutchmans
In place, will be stained to match tool kit, this is mostly what I used Locations marked out, showing the defects to be covered up A single one on an apron, apron was on the back of [...]
Pictures of a table from an Old Pin-nic table
"Front View" "Dutchman" on bottom apron, covering an old bolt hole shelving: center divider is notched to the middle shelf, just a slip fit in a notch in the shelf [...]
How I build a chest of drawers
end panels web frames details of the frames face frames and drawers. Top in place Details of top's frame, showing a center stretcher. Plywood top sits in the rabbet around the [...]
