18th-century Bench: Four-month Report Card
I’ve been getting questions almost daily about the 18th-century French-style workbench I built for the cover of the August 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The questions go [...]
IWF Report: New Benchtop Saw from General
In my work, I hear from many of the woodworking machine manufacturers. One company stands out as a front runner when it comes to new machines coming to market: General International. As I survey [...]
IWF Report: New Stuff from Rockler
I had to move from one end of the hall to the other in order at the International Woodworking Fair to keep my appointment with the folks at Rockler, but I wasn’t disappointed with what they [...]
CLS TREE SEAT
CLS TREE SEAT IDEAL FOR THE LONLEY TREE IN YOUR GARDEN…EASY TO DO JUST GET THE LENGHTS AND ANGLES RIGHT.WITH THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF WOODWORK YOU TOO CAN DO THIS.…
'Sharp' and 'Dull' for an Electron Microscope
Learning to sharpen has little to do with your sharpening stones. It has a lot more to do with being able to see your progress and knowing when to stop. Showing a class of woodworkers what a [...]
Winners of the Veneer Tech Craftsman’s Challenge
Earlier this summer, I made a series of posts on this blog about how veneer is made. The photos in those posts came from a trip I made in June to the Veneer Tech plant in North Carolina to serve [...]
From IWF: New Compact Routers from DeWalt and Porter-Cable
This morning at the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta, DeWalt and Porter-Cable each took the wraps off a new compact router. While there are some differences, there is one shared [...]
MINI BENCH MENU
THE MENU BOARD JUST FOR SHOW TILL I GET TO PAINT IT BLACKBOARD PAINT,OR IF I CAN FIND SOME WHITE BOARD SO IT CAN USE WIPE OFF MARKER.BUT ALL IN ALL THE BREWERY MAY LIKE IT,WONT KNOW TILL I SEE …
MINI BENCHES
THESE MINI BENCHES WILL BE MADE TO HOLD MENUS ,THESE WILL SIT ON TABLE OF MAIN BENCHES. ALL OFF CUTS ,JUST A NOVELTY IDEAS.THESE ARE UNFINISHED JUST MAKING ONE OFF TO SEE IF BREWERY LIKE [...]
Better Than a Pencil
One of the things that can overwhelm a beginning woodworker is the sheer number of choices to make about the simplest things. It doesn’t help that there is always someone waiting to tell [...]
This is Not About the Infill Handplane
Nor is it about the workbench. It’s about my sawbenches. During every project I wonder how I ever got by without them. Like Tonya Harding, I think there’s something special about the [...]
Video: Veritas Quick-release Sliding Tail Vise
We’ve been testing the Veritas Quick-release Sliding Tail Vise for several months now and have been keeping as mum as possible. Now I can break my mum-ness and discuss this interesting [...]