Craftisian Blogs

I found some hardwood at a local lumber middleman, none of our mills have any type right now and might not until spring. I even had to order this b...

Our Jewelry Box Awards entry period is over and we ended up with 18 amazing entries. Now it’s time to pick your top 5 list and cast your votes. Vot...

At the end of the last blog the sides and bottom had been glued up and the foot frames and top rim frames had been each glued together in preparati...

I have just finished drilling the pilot dog holes into the top boards that I have vises for. This will allow me to have a nice straight batch of do...

Well all the colour decisions have been made and the flowers are glued in. The next job is to build a jewellery box to glue them onto. I have decid...

As you may have noticed, we keep improving at a rapid pace lately. Today the spotlight is on the new WOODS & TOOLS tagging of the creations. Ri...

In part one of this blog I went through making the stock of the pattern and sliced it into squares. This blog is the glue up of the pattern Hide gl...

This project is almost finished. If I’m lucky the three main components of the baskets will be glued together tomorrow. Here’s what was done in pre...

I wonder … why do you do woodworking?

With the legs already cut to length its time to glue them up. I have the joinery drawn out on the top roughly so that after cutting the boards the ...

The building of the tail vise is not an easy accomplishment. I started to build the vise when I was invaded by the daughter and grand kids carving ...

With all the cutting and sand shading done and all the pieces properly organized, it’s time to have some fun. If you’ve done everything right up to...