Woodworking Blogs

It’s December. 2014 is coming to an end and we will be heading toward our 1st Anniversary later in the spring. It’s been a great 2014 so far, hasn’...

You may have seen my project post here which explains the background for this design. Several readers expressed their interest in a blog to show ho...

I wonder … what has been your biggest “wonder blunders”? Those “oops” with big lessons attached — and, of course, what you learned from the blunder!

Once the drawer mechanics were sorted out to my satisfaction, I was able to apply the marquetry to the last six and get a first coat of shellac on ...

Now that I have the plan in place for the end marquetry there is a little housekeeping to be done with the drawers. The pull out ones in the centre...

Here’s another ten items finished, only about a dozen to go. Roubo Work Bench “to do,” list and, assembly order. ^ ^ equals completed work. ^ ^ ^ ^...

I feel I am getting a little better at it. I noticed my miter were problematic because of the way I was using the veneer saw /scalpel to do the cut...

As you know, Black Friday is a big event around the Stumpy Nubs Workshop. Every year we put on our parkas and confront the horrors that officially ...

In the previous blog in this series, we left of with the template ready. Once I had the template it just a matter of tracing the pattern and the pr...

My last entry here was almost a month ago and I was about to leave for Arizona for the winter. Well, I’ve been here (Az.) for almost a month now an...

I practiced some more today with panel #3. I chose to do similar pattern as panel #2 since I had so much trouble with veneer curling and gaping mit...

While the turkey was baking in the oven, I thought I have few hour to kill. I decided to practice some more veneering. I just cooked a new batch of...