Craftisian Blogs

These are stone carver’s rifflers, but unlike any that I have ever seen. Instead of having stitched teeth they have cut recesses along an edge. The...

Japanese veneer cutter / marking gauge [IMG_8468.jpeg][IMG_8469.jpeg][IMG_8470.jpeg][IMG_8471.jpeg][IMG_8472.jpeg] A Kebiki is a Japanese marking ...

I have decided that this stone carving riffler is for carving eyes. The two ends combined, one effectively cuts the upper eyelid shape and the othe...

Here are the methods of making dowel 1. Drill and push through steel flat bar 2. Hammering through a holed plate 3. The Chisel Method 4. able saw ...

Rare as teeth on a hen. I couldn’t believe my eyes. For $25 … To put it in perspective, if you go on eBay you will find many El Casco  pencil shar...

The ash trim needs to wrap around the entire panel. I’ve got the top and bottom done and now I need to add trim at the front and back ends. I’ll st...

  [IMG_2099.png]   Boy and Girls,   (Consider this as a 2* review.) When I posted my Auto Adjust Clamps, I deliberately avoided mentioning this pa...

Most of this part is taken from one of the later comments in the previous part. I have been holding back the details on how the car is going to be ...

My current method is using my Dowel Maker . Please follow this link and feel free to make comments. Stock is cut just slightly larger than what y...

  Well, the mini vice mount Hi-Vice gets pretty much constant use, so it’s time to make a nicer one based on the prototype.  Pretty happy with the ...

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 ...