A lifestyle woodworker.
And I am talking about what woodworkers new to woodworking don't know starting out. I'm not really a hand tool enthusiast, but an enthusiastic maker that works primarily with the hand tools he's worked with for over sixty years and has no plans to
I've seen pegboard backdrops and kitchen-style surrounds for a number of years, but an open benchtop with lidless tills and wells works best for instancy in the zone. That's because I do believe lidded boxes and tills and drawers are very practical for storing things
Twenty days in, the foundation work undergirds any future building work we care to do. Fifteen days of full-time work for two and three men have passed quickly and productively. We've used the same Lithuanian builders over the last six years. as we kept altering the house
No pare cuts to fit here, just straight off the saw. Four different dovetailed corners and five different woods if I include the bottom. And you will not believe the method I used for housing the bottom. It'll knock the socks off for you simply because you will
...Inside and Out Things are tight, but we have continued filming these past weeks, and it's working fine. My love of woodworking has never faltered in sixty years and is still thriving despite the disruptions that come with moves of this magnitude. What makes it work is the
....Always Becomes More And thereby it leaves you with more to work with too. I write poetry and draw quick sketches and more detailed drawings for good reason. Poetry distills everything down to the essentials and gets rid of the excesses. My sketches capture moments that mean something. Seeing them
I posted a picture on my FB recently showing two draw bore pins slightly protruding from the end cap of a breadboard end tabletop. I was surprised that so many confidently identified and asserted these two end-grain protrusions as our now commonly used wood plugs, and then that these
A Craftsman-style oak rocking chair and an original sofa table, both made almost entirely by hand. Local collection near Abingdon, Tuesday to Friday.
Four of Paul's hand-made benches, including the two from the bench-building films, need new homes this week. Local collection near Abingdon, Tuesday to Friday.
I found a handful of pictures from thirty years ago. The drawings were still there. A mid-sized chest made from mesquite with some accents in walnut. The pictures had faded a little but were representative of my early designs back in the 1990s. I enjoyed the memory of making
My sliding doors came together well. With the drawers fitted and tidied up I just have the handles to consider, but probably will not have handles on the doors as such. My first thought was to make my handles, as I often do, but I like the idea of traditional
Many of my projects become courses in cabinet making, with everyday other woodworking thrown in for good measure. My work balances out the machinist in us–that couch-potato, tube-watching that's interesting but non-active. My quest for three decades parallels a phrase used in the
Making the Gauge Stock Episode three is out on Woodworking Masterclasses if you want to go that route too, but all of the details are below here as well for those who like text and drawings. Here is the link. https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/dashboard/ The stock of the gauge might
...from the IRS or HMRC But for us, it is about creating a squared-off, step-down internal corner to a section of wood to receive pictures, mirrors glass and a back panel or a door panel or a door into it. I cut all of mine by hand with
Making the Gauge Stem: There is a video (paid, optional but recommended) over on Woodworking Masterclasses of this process if you want to watch. A sharp plough plane can tackle this groove making in twenty to thirty or so strokes. But you might not have such a tool. Here'