Craftisian Blogs

In this episode, I show you how I tackled the caged ball section of the Welsh Love Spoon. I started by squaring the outside of the cage and transfe...

There is a lot of down time during these days so its not representative of the actual task duration but cannot be avoided. The drawer construction ...

Okay. In the last installment I noted that a glued up drawer front / sides piece went kinda 'parallelogram' on me overnight. To affect a repair, I ...

This is an idea that I have had kicking around in my head for a while now but faced with the task of making four new sets of steel blade clamps fo...

Set-up & Link to Video Trailer This second installment of the #444 mini-series details the set-up required to use the Stanley Dovetail Tongue and ...

Recently I restored a vintage 6" mortise gauge by I. Sorby. [qzr1l3z.jpg] I mentioned that I had to replace the spurs (points) on it and was asked...

For the shapes of the climbing modules, I took inspiration from the simple circle-triangle-square shapes that were repeated throughout the 2021 Net...

Down to where I can see the bottom of the depth limit holes so I marked each one with a pencil. [17268FC9-78C5-42FF-BA75-F7B66E8F91E2.jpeg] After m...

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Our museum received a Gledhill-Brook time recorder as a donation. It has fallen to me to bring it back from the dead. This where it stands right n...

Before I started another mess, I marked out some strategic lines for checking the shape. Also, I cut off the neck at the 12th fret position. This i...

Putting a docking plug into a drawer.  I like the swing arm that houses the wires so the don't get out of control. They're expensive, but if the cl...