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Patio Planter By Tim Johnson If you can build a box, you can build this planter. It’s much sturdier than most commercial versions, so it should last for many years. [...]

Monday’s “Anarchist’s Tool Chest” class “The Woodwright’s School” was the first of five days of dovetailing. By the end of the week, everyone will be [...]

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 [...]

Tomorrow morning, I’m hopping in my car and driving south to Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s School,” where the view off the back deck of where I feel honored to [...]

For the  James Krenov-style hanging cabinet I built out of cherry for the April 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine I used tapered sliding dovetails to join the case. For a step-by-step [...]

THESE ARE AROUND WORLD WIDE . YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU COULD FIND IN THEM ??? OR WHAT YOU CAN MAKE FROM YOUR FIND ? YOU WONT KNOW TILL YOU DIVE IN AND FIND OUT .. LANDFILL SITES BEWARE ? …

scrap yard ideas work wonders mainly breaker yards.?? ideas galore .see what your imagination can do for you.???????…

THIS WAS MADE FROM 9 X PALLETS  4X4  TOOK 3 WEEKS IN MY OWN TIME. SUMMERS COMING MAYBE SOMEONE MAY BUY IT. AS ALWAYS LINSEEDED TO LAST IN ALL WEATHERS . ALL FIXINGS ARE STAINLESS STEEL [...]

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 [...]

I love to use pencil compasses in my woodshop. Unlike regular drafting compasses, which are fitted with fragile lead that tends to break easily, pencil compass are [...]

I finished yesterday fitting the three bottom drawers to the Campaign Secretary I’m building and I started in on building the gallery – it’s all dovetailed now. I’d be quite happy with my [...]

Can we not agree that I am not of sound mind and body? Yup? OK, read on. Last year I commissioned blacksmith Peter Ross to make a holdfast for me that was made as close as possible to Andre [...]