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Winners in the seventh annual Veneer Tech Craftsman’s Challenge have been announced. This is the second time around for me to serve as a judge in this contest, and it was a challenge for me [...]

Amanda is one of my summer program veteran students. During her first year at Belmont Hill she built a great looking clock. On her second year she made a beautiful shooting star wall clock. She [...]

Early this morning, I dove into my tool chest to pull the stuff I’ll need next week at The Woodwright’s School for a 17th-century joint stool class with Peter Follansbee. And I [...]

I SEE SOME PEOPLE ARE THINKING MY WAY.THIS IS MADE BY A PERSON WHO SAW MY WORK.. AND HE IS ONLY A  WEEKEND HANDY MAN…. AS I SAY THESE PIECES ARE NOT ROCKET SCIENCE…JUST LOOK AND [...]

This is my third time teaching at Roy Underhill’s school in Pittsboro, N.C. And I can definitely feel the rhythm of the school, the community and the man sinking into my bones with every passing [...]

One of the secrets of working effectively in SketchUp is keeping control of all the bits and pieces in your model. The more they look (and act) like individual hunks of wood, the closer modeling [...]

Nope! Disney hasn’t entered the world of toolmaking. This isn’t about an amusement ride, either. The Mouseplane is a new woodworking tool introduce by Power Adhesives, a United [...]

MADE USING SCAFFOLD BOARDS AND PALLETS.WITH A FEW NUTS AND BOLTS.,LIGHTLY STAINED OAK WITH LINSEED OIL FOR PROTECTION IN ALL WEATHERS… AS YOU CAN SEE RUBBISH PALLETS/SCAFFOLD [...]

Roy Underhill looks over the rim of his beer at the City Tap – the bar behind his woodworking school – and asks me the following left-field-what-are-you-doing-inside-my-skull question. “You built [...]

I believe I’ve mentioned previously my problems with parsimony. Now, my penny-pinching ways have led to an embarrassing predicament. (And that’s quite enough alliteration for one [...]

After my gruesome dovetails of the day before (no, I don’t have any photos), I hoped I was done with disasters for the week in the class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking. Then my wife [...]

Free-Form Wall Shelves By John Nesset Here are versatile shelves that allow for creative, one-of-a-kind edge treatments. Hung on the wall without any visible means of support, these shelves are [...]