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For $2, acquired a new book. What a book it is. Measures over 3” thick printed on vellum. I estimate over 1,000 pages. Printed in 1959. [IMG_8840....

Need to test the run-out on a drill press? Grab your Starrett 657AA and a dial indicator. This magnetic base holds strong to the table of your dril...

Side rabbet plane. They had this priced at $48 [IMG_8810.jpeg] I talked them down to $20. Just because I love a bargain. EDIT: at $48, I don’t k...

While I had been thinking about how to make the arms from the time I had started scheming to build this chair, by the time I got to this point, I s...

In this project, I'll be building a pair of chairs modeled after Hans Wegner's, "Bukkestolen", which he designed for Johannes Hansen in 1959. Weg...

With the leg finger joints complete, I could trim the legs to their final shape.   This could have been done more quickly on the table saw with a p...

I can't really tell if the ends of the stretchers on the original chair had shoulders around the tenons or not.  I decided that I would use shoulde...

The red tools neither venture into the salvage yard all that often nor last long when they do. The folks at the salvage yard are also unaware of th...

I think that the row of finger joints between the arm and leg is a perfect example of honest design.  The joint provides incredible strength to the...

For $8 — not a typo Minty in the box I am shook It had no price. That usually means $1-$5 Greg, the guy ringing me up took one look at it, look...

Imperial, 1/1000th of an inch accuracy For $8 — actually marked as $8. No haggling, just a pristine minty dial caliper falling in my lap. Had one ...

I have "migrated" to Craftisian from LumberJocks. I was pretty disappointed when the new LJ forum design appeared (or shall we call it "monetizing"...