New Episodes from ‘The Woodwright’s Shop’
The shows from the latest season of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” can now be viewed online for free through this link. What, you are still here and reading my crap? Click the link and [...]
New Traditional Hammers from Tools for Working Wood
The difference between a good hammer and a great hammer is significant. Most hammers at the hardware store are but one step above a rock tied to a stick. As a result, I’ve always bought vintage [...]
Making Stuff
Today (January 1st) is my birthday. I’ll spend the rest of this day with beloved family and friends, smiling through their dull headaches. My birthday (like all of you with Christmas [...]
Favorite New Tools of 2011
So, with hours to go before the year ends (at least in my time zone), I’ve one more post for 2011: some of Popular Woodworking Magazine‘s favorite new tools for 2011. Caveat: Because [...]
Pennsylvania Spice Box Build – Done on Time (Barely)
On December 16, I wrote that I was attempting a Pennsylvania spice box build with a string-and-berry inlaid door, in an insane time frame (without access to the Popular Woodworking Magazine [...]
Shaker step stool part 6: Completed pieces + screws and plugs
We finished assembling the pieces and all that was left to do was screw in the screws, make the plugs that hide the screw heads and glue them in. After the glue on the plugs dried my [...]
Don Williams Replicates the Gragg Chair
Of all the furniture of the 18th and 19th centuries, the work of Boston chair maker Samuel Gragg (1772-1855) is some of the most shocking to modern eyes. His elastic, steam-bent chairs are based [...]
RECYCLED CARDBOARD
WHAT DID YOU DO WITH YOUR EMPTY BOXES THIS XMAS??? RECYCLE THEM OR MAKE SOMETHING FROM THEM?? SINCE THE BUILDING GAME HAS HIT A HIGH WITH THE RECCESION ? HAVE TO THINK OF WAYS OF MAKING A LIVING. [...]
Plank Table
The "Other Half" wanted a small Prep table for the kitchen. I had a plank of Oak out in the shopabout 13-1/2' wide. I clean the old boy up, trimmed off the [...]
Precut – Modern Japanese Timber Construction
Last week, author and craftsman, Jay van Arsdale, founder of Daiku Dojo, a Japanese Woodworking group and one of our WIA 2011 instructors, sent me this link to a video on some of the technology [...]
Portuguese Table Cousins
In our October issue #192 of this year, I showed you how to make a little table that my father-in-law had given me from Portugal. It was a nice project because it was easy to make a production [...]
New Closed-throat Routers from Lie-Nielsen
In the great battle to make the best router plane (what, you weren’t aware of the war?), Lie-Nielsen has raised the stakes by introducing two new closed-throat routers. For those of you who don’t [...]
