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The legs for my hope chest were made from old furniture discarded by Harvard University. Harvard has a place called "Harvard Surplus Center", or as we used to nickname [...]

The last version of the hope-chest was the one that both my clients and I loved the most. It called for a frame and panel construction and a lid that once used to be part of a [...]

Hope-chests are wonderfully versatile pieces of furniture.  They provides storage and a place to sit at the same time. Because they were traditionally given as wedding gifts, they [...]

Fellow woodworkers, did you know that a jeweler’s saw (fret saw) is not just for jewelers? This revelation was brought to me two or three years ago after I saw how Rob Cosman used a [...]

I love good old tools, ones that were made from fine materials such as brass, steel, and hard woods. As I mentioned in my last posting, these tools can endure much abuse, several [...]

Most of my woodworking tools were bought on ebay. Over the years I learned how to identify the good tools from the mediocre or even the bad ones. I gained experience in [...]

In this posting I will describe how my students shaped the mallet's head. If you recall my last blog post, I described how we clamped the head's [...]

In my first blog entry I showed the revised plans for the oak mallet that my students are building. Here, I will show the process of cutting and gluing the parts together. Once the [...]

The first project I give to my students in the Intro to Woodworking class at 3rdWard NYC is building a wooden mallet. The mallet is perfect because it requires less then two meetings to make and [...]

In 2001 I began a two year residency program in furniture making at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts. While there I decided to take on a domain of woodworking [...]

In my previous blog entry I showed how I threaded the stem to effectively create a bolt. The next step was to find (or make) a nut that would secure the old compass knob in [...]

Threading is the mechanical operation of removing material from the exterior of a cylindrical shape in order to create a helical thread. The newly formed stem at the base of my old compass's [...]