Craftisian Blogs

The only sailing photos I have were taken before the square rigging arrived, too bad. I say arrived because we didn't build the yards and their r...

One thing I find comical and oddly refreshing is the utter lack of safety measures on this old drill press.  No cover for the pulleys and no power ...

Back to the grind with this drill press restore. The first thing I decided to tackle once I got the new cabinet built is the disgusting motor. Real...

Not a lot to cover on this entry but I'm trying my best to at least cover all the major steps. For paint prep of cast iron its pretty straight for...

Firing this blog series back up since I'm actually going to get time to work on this drill press…FINALLY! This post won't be long. I decided to mak...

I have not had time at all in the last few months to work on this project. I finally just got back in the shop a couple weeks ago after the summer ...

[20210714_185620.jpg] I recently purchased a Dunlap 103.23622 bench top drill press at an estate sale for $40. I thought it was such a nice deal th...

It seems that workshop postings have slowed down considerably since Steve posted his. I can’t compete with his, but I’ll show (parts of) our worksh...

Here are the two cabinets that will have the lighting I mentioned in part 1. [20221203_112010.jpg][20221203_112018.jpg] I'm also making shelves th...

With the prototype complete, I assembled the remaining two lamps. [20200201-IMG_3503.jpg] [20200202-IMG_3511.jpg] [20200202-IMG_3512.jpg] The bot...

The interior of the boat was completed before launching, unfortunately without any progress photos so I'll just show some finished shots here. In...

Project images are now displayed in a more appealing way on the project pages. Large featured image is accompanied by a grid of additional project ...