Woodworking Blogs

Now you've got some nice circles, lined up well but covered in blue tape.  Flip them over so the tape side is down.  This is your 'show' side that ...

A 16 point rose is 8 pieces each of two contrasting colors.  (And 360/16 = 22.5 degree angles) You start with a whole lot of straight lines.  In t...

This is the blog describing how i made this chair. For a long time I have had this corner of my garden that have a place for a bonfire. We use it...

   I was informed on Christmas Eve that long-standing LJ'er David Mitchell/Patron is no longer with us. He passed away quietly in Hospice Care in S...

This whole series have all the time evolved around making a set of dining chairs out of two large slabs of European elm that was saved at my mother...

I didn't invent this technique. I found a tutorial a few decades ago by someone named Michael Henderson. I am not 100% sure, but I think these are ...

Summer is over and work, my business and life in gerneral have taken almost all my time. And my chair project have slowed down considerable. But in...

Boys and Girls, This was posted at LJ on the 26th. December, 2017 as a project.  I have migrated it across and slapped it under my Hints series ...

Boys and Girls, Lately I have been taking more notice of workshops than actual projects and have acclimatised myself to getting canned for my ch...

I don't get it.  Pure Tung oil is a fantastic finish, but nearly every article I read and even the product directions make what I think is a mistak...

A few pictures from the Japanese Lacquerware museum in Wajima showing the techniques and tools used.  Look carefully at the numbers of the pictures...

This is for Bryan. Some years ago I went to Myanmar which has a lacquerware craft industry but on a smaller scale to Japan.  Its based in Bagan.  ...