Woodworking Blogs

Had another half-hour in the shop this morning. Got the tenons double-checked and cut, and they’re each just a hair too big for their respective ha...

   My Wife and I moved into our own Home 10 years ago last February... In the Apartment we had just left, my Shop was located in the Cellar... a Ce...

Another hour in the shop this morning. Trimmed the layer of granadillo after marking the rough diameter I plan to finish it to. Not perfect, but cl...

I been rolling the dice to see if my projects would come up  and they never did. ☹️ When I looked at it today this came up. Under member spotlight...

I got a little more time this evening, and spent a half hour making two trenails out of four ⅜ inch square scraps of live oak I got from Nathan. Sp...

Not much progress today, but even slow progress is progress. I finished chopping the mortise on the second handle. Went pretty smoothly except for...

The last step before applying a finish to everything was completing the bell.  As I mentioned at the end of Chapter 2 about making the bell on my C...

   The Oak-sided Box that was begun in the "Starting Over" blog had Its top cut off and its corners pinned... [20250818_133507.jpg] Cleanup of the...

I am finally getting around to posting the next chapter.  So the next step was figuring out how to join the sections so that they were both secure ...

This will probably be a slow-moving blog, as I’m recovering from back surgery, and get a limited amount of shop time every day, but I have a deadli...

I grabbed another 45 minutes in the shop this afternoon, and got one handle mortised. Started by drilling a pair of ¼ inch holes through the morti...

   The hinges were glued to this latest box while held closed by the Vise, and weight was added as a sort of "clamp" to hold them on while the glu...