Woodworking Blogs

It’s clear in retrospect looking at the initial photos of it in the salvage yard, taken moments after arrival that it was always missing one of the...

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  Lazyman suggested I should verify my form shapes by checking an inverse of the forms against the car profile. This gave me a chance to try out th...

Acquired from Urban Ore: https://craftisian.com/entries/2230-wooden-tool-box I threw some Daddy Van’s on this box and it NEEDED it. It was a pain ...

Some of my favorite things to restore are hard to find files and rasps. Sometimes it is very rewarding and only rarely is it disappointing. Occasi...

Before (paid $8.95 at salvage): [IMG_2908.jpeg][IMG_2909.jpeg][IMG_2910.jpeg][IMG_2911.jpeg][IMG_2912.jpeg][IMG_2915.jpeg] After sanding to 80, th...

This one blew my mind. So there I was, down in Half Moon Bay on a day trip to the 4 hour meetup of the PAST Tool Collectors association. I had wan...

Bet you clicked the title thinking you’ve seen them all. The Upson Bros, Stanley, Craftsman, Bell, … Bet you’ve never seen a pair of screw-holding...

This shop vac and Dust Deputy was upstairs next to the cat litter box. He died last year, and I inherited it. It wasn't on a cart before, I had a ...

Picked up this beautiful rosewood wedge/sole shoulder plane that will work wonderfully for cleaning up tenons in mortise and tenon joinery. The pr...

2 moulders + a tongue and groove pair + 1 dado plane All look to be usable [IMG_7387.jpeg]

In this series, I will be posting my finds from Urban Ore — a salvage yard that opened in the 1970’s and is located in Berkeley. I frequent this p...