Woodworking Blogs

As you know, here at the Stumpy Nubs Workshop we like to bend the rules. Something we even break them. But most often we simply create a nasty kink...

I did a quick dry run with a couple of laminates on the form. I heard crackling. It seemed to me the wood was too dry and the existing stress in th...

Cutting the laminate was the most adventurous part of the project so far. As I stated earlier, I used the 4×6 to cut the laminate from. Dimensions:...

In keeping with my pledge to only use leftover and recycled material, I decided not to buy the construction plywood to make the form but to use som...

While going through my favorite pictures I remember this table: http://lumberjocks.com/projects/51352 I thought now is the time to try and build it...

Busy busy weekend in the shop. Several different projects going on at the same time. Just the right time for some wires to burn. My saw is a hand m...

I spent the last 2 weekends working on the top and it is now done. This blog is a little too long but did not want to brake it into two. I asked Be...

Some of the most popular videos we make at the Stumpy Nubs Workshop are the “Old-Timey Woodworking” series. People love to see how things were done...

I searched and searched, but I can’t find any pictures of the rest of the process. As I said in the previous blog, the wife wasn’t exactly up for t...

Thank-you to MontyJ for taking the time to do this interview (June, 2014) This creation is MontyJ’s “first” — yes, his FIRST woodworking creation!!...

I got a commission to build a desk/closet/Murphy bed. Here is the SK drawing of the build. The right hand side will house the Murphy Bed. The unit ...

A bit of a rant… about woodworking, but moreso about the mid-project crisis. I’m in Grid-Lock about moving forward; or taking some time away from t...