Just some views of this little Blanket Chest. The picture of the inside of that coopered top shows qhat the wood looked like before the finish. Simple raised [...]
After shaping the head with the band-saw, I started to work the facial details with flat chisels and gouges. Basswood is a fantastic wood for carving: It is soft, homogeneous, and don't have [...]
Thomas Lie-Nielsen called this morning to ask if I was dropping out of the “Handplane Weekend” class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking on May 14-15 that I help him teach. Oops. [...]
Just a simple little table, small drawer. Legs were tapered using a handplane, mortises done with just a chisel. About 24" high, by 24" square on the [...]
Fetch the yurt, honey. It looks like 2011 is going to be a nomadic year. I’ll be teaching classes all across the country and even in Germany in the coming year on a wide variety of [...]
Whenever I stink at something in woodworking, it becomes my lunch-hour obsession. While chomping an apple, I’ll read everything I can about the topic. Then I’ll steal off to the shop [...]
Some wide chisels and narrow plane irons don’t work well with the cheap-o side-clamp honing guide. They are too narrow to fit between the walls on the top of the guide. And they are too [...]
SketchUp is a great tool for creating models of your next project, but where it really shines is when you want to quickly change a project. Whether it’s something you made, or someone [...]
