Dave Polaschek

Had another half-hour in the shop this morning. Got the tenons double-checked and cut, and they’re each just a hair too big for their respective ha...

Another hour in the shop this morning. Trimmed the layer of granadillo after marking the rough diameter I plan to finish it to. Not perfect, but cl...

I got a little more time this evening, and spent a half hour making two trenails out of four ⅜ inch square scraps of live oak I got from Nathan. Sp...

Not much progress today, but even slow progress is progress. I finished chopping the mortise on the second handle. Went pretty smoothly except for...

I grabbed another 45 minutes in the shop this afternoon, and got one handle mortised. Started by drilling a pair of ¼ inch holes through the morti...

This will probably be a slow-moving blog, as I’m recovering from back surgery, and get a limited amount of shop time every day, but I have a deadli...

A while ago I poured some epoxy over cholla canes to make some pen blanks. But the epoxy went exothermic and made enough of a mess that I thought a...

A while ago, I read Dave Fisher’s post on his Souped-up Sharpening Shelf and thought that sounded like a great idea to get some consistency in my g...

My cheap-ass Harbor Freight dust collector has picked up a bit of a vibration. Enough so that last Sunday, it vibrated itself right off the French ...

I bought a Lost Art Press engraving tool a while back. The short metal handle works fine for putting it into a compass, but for freehand use, it’s ...

Our front gate, which is now 4 years old, started sagging enough recently that it wouldn’t latch any more. I was a little disappointed by the compa...

While working on the Altai Project Logo carving, I discovered I needed a narrow skew in order to get down into some of the corners. I have a handfu...