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Except not "finished."  I should say, it's functional. I did the test lacing with the chair on the floor.  That was a bit hard on my back.  I got ...

I normally don't post my articles here on Craftisian, but this is my favorite one so far on how I make Marquetry. The publisher for this magazine i...

I had to think the process through, since I wanted to use the drill press, the wrong way would have meant drilling by hand, and I may have drifted....

I have two fixed half height louver /slat/Plantation Shutters in one of my bedrooms, the bane of my cleaning regime if I ever saw one. Constant dus...

Here is a colored pencil drawing of my next piece of furniture that I will be making. My design is in the Art Deco style inspired by Emile Rhulmann...

Up next was to cut the waste area from the bottom of the feet, leaving a small pad on each end. When I was drill out the waste for the mortise I dr...

tuned up the other mortise and tenons so I didn't have to use a lot of force to fit everything together. Then I was able to get a good measurement...

I took the time to lay out all of the mortise and tenons, keeping an eye on the grain and the glue line. I chose to use through mortise for all, an...

I have always been fascinated with timber framing, an old school joinery and the large timber that are used. I have a large project that I want to ...

Started working on tenons, already had the layout lines for the shoulder cut, but verified the size of the tenon with each mortise, (a tad bit off)...

Since we don’t have “shops” to attach things like this to, I’ll just leave this here… When I put up my French cleats when the shop got build 3+ ye...

I have started the Instagram #offcuts only challenge put up by Mark Dainer, a maker from Townsville.   Thank you to Dean & Francine of Living Timbe...