Craftisian Blogs

Well, the construction part of this blog is over such as it was, so it's time for a few shots of the finished boats. Again the differences will b...

Boys and Girls.   Another tip migrated across, that may save a few shekels for some.   It was first published at LJ on 28th, December, 2019.  Now...

Boys and Girls,   With the arrival of my new baby… [IMG_8043.png] he was a 100L quite baby boy… I remembered posting a similar topic on LJ back on...

2022: This blog is over ten years old and covers the build of my first chevalet. These links will update all the improvements: https://craftisian.c...

Boys and Girls, A tad of you may have cottoned onto me being a bit of a SketchUp tragic... It is my goto tool for any project... Designing in Sket...

Disclaimer: There is no woodworking content in this post. It exists to show the final pre-veneering steps of the build--the steps that turn cabinet...

There are several ways to attach veneer: hide glue, contact cement, cold glue in a press, etc. The only method I've ever used is the iron-on wood g...

 Up the Creek with a Finished Paddle So, here we go. This will be the final chapter to this series. When we left off the paddle blade and shaft we...

The back panel is very simple. It has a bunch of holes for the mounting bolts. There was nothing hard about them. It has a big hole in the bottom...

Each cabinet is a relative simple box. The only thing that made it at all difficult (or, more accurately, inconvenient or awkward) is its size: 43....

This blog series provides some details about the Wenge and Zebrawood speakers I built in 2013. I didn't design these speakers; I built them from...

Completion of the hull is a milestone in any boat building project, but while many think of it as half way, those who have done much of it will b...