Craftisian Blogs

It's been a while since I was on here, to my old friends and everyone else, I hope you are keeping well and navigating life's challenges the best y...

Simultaneously aligning all 4 components of a side assembly gave me fits.  Very slight errors in length and/or angles meant that as I sequentially ...

Most of the pressure-treated scraps from my deck skirting project were pretty narrow - around 1-1/8" wide.  Most of the blanks needed for the chair...

As mentioned earlier, the armrest will fit into a 1/8" deep recess on the top of the arm.  I made this router jig (from scraps) to use to cut the r...

On the heels of completing a second deck chair based on Wegner's GE-375 from pressure-treated decking, I still had some scraps left over.  Enough f...

As with the other replica chairs I've made, it requires spending quite a bit of time looking at example photos from different angles in order to ma...

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 Working with :- 8 x 5M x 75mm x 25mm 2 x 4M x 75mm x 25mm 2 x 2.5M  x 75mm x 25mm 11 x 1.5M x 75mm x 25 mm all rough sawn timber [IMG_1157.JPG] ...

Whats going on in the Timbermate house Who is Earl and whats with the crown? My latest purchase surprised me with a complete make over on labeling....

I made some trivets with simple images on the cheap home center plain white tiles in another project. [IMG_8376.jpeg] Simply put, this black on th...

It's been a while since I had time to get in the shop.  Between helping my daughter fix up here 1940's house and a mandatory "optional" Project Man...

Well, I'm bored already and decided it is time to end this! Again, apologies for the fubar'd format, never could get the blog posting format to wo...