Craftisian Blogs

The chisel method is one of most accurate ways to make dowels. Don't get excited. Read on. Basically you drill a hole of the dowel size you want t...

The next one is simply drilling holes in flat bar stock. Again I used  1/8" x 1" x 6" piece of flat bar from HD. As before, you cut your stock to ...

 I do different kinds of joinery and sometimes use dowels. In addition, I use dowels for making hidden flush hinges. The problem is that store boug...

Another similar simple method to the one I currently use is to use a 1/8" x 1" piece of flat bar from HD and push drill a hole in it. You then make...

There are two ways of making dowel on the router.  Using a fence and round over bit or a jig /die setup similar to the Table Saw method. USING A ...

This method is a jig that's fits over the table saw blade. It is made with input and output dies that will make 1/"4 - 3/"4 dowel. Here are my part...

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...

 There has been an aspect of the panel layout that has been bugging me. Now seems as good of a time as any to see if there is anything I can do abo...

A couple of years before my sister asked me to make a new chairback molding.  I had collected the trunk of a dead redbud tree from her yard with th...

This tool seems like it belongs in the Smithsonian, though you won’t easily pry it from my hands. For $15 — yes, fifteen U.S. American simoleons (...

Found this for $20 yesterday, but did not pick it up until today. I took a gamble on nobody noticing what was in the box and it paid off. Sometimes...

I cruise the local Habitat Restore for things I can use. High on my list is anything made of QSWO. I've gotten some spectacular specimens; one exam...