Hand Crafted Woodworking
I find myself moving towards more hand tool use. Since my first Rob Cosman class on dove tails and the first WIA in 2008 I have come to appreciate and understand the role of hand tools as a woodworking craftsman. So I created a plan in my OCD mind. Now that most of the plan […]
Day 3 was exciting. The first slab of 4 was ready to come out of the clamps. The first process was to get the slab through the jointer and planer to get 4 sides square. The comments on the pictures really tell the story. The glue, while very different from my standard Titebond II or […]
Day 1 I milled the first 4 boards for the bench top. These were ready to be glued. Day 2 was the glue up. This was very interesting and I learned what worked and what did not work. I am using TiteBond Extended glue. This give me 15 minutes open time and 25 minutes working […]
So I am finally building a new workbench. My original bench has served well. Solid core door with two vises. The new bench is “roubo” style bench. I was inspired by the Chris Schwarz’s first workbench book and all of the woodworking community activity following. A few descriptive items: 250 board feet of “soft” 8/4 […]
The 3hp motor on my Grizzly G0441 Cylone failed around Jan 1st this year. I was working hard to finish the flooring in the new basement room, so was doing a lot of cutting and fitting over a 7 hour workday. This cyclone was installed in 2007: Delivery, installation, duct work, and enclosure links… I […]
My daughter calls on December 10th. “Dad, Molly is getting a castle ( doll house size ) for Christmas. She needs some furniture !”. Having no idea how to approach building doll house furniture, I start exploring the internet. I really did not find much. I found one 20 year old book on […]
Our Local Woodcraft store ( Atlanta ) has a great line up of classes. Their lead instructor for 12 years, Al Trevillyan is retiring for the second time. So there were opening for new instructors. I inquired and was offered the Cutting Board class. I gladly accepted. So I monitored […]
I am pushing slowly towards hand tools. I really wanted two cross cut handsaws. So I have been reading and asking questions on my favorite forum WoodNet.net. This thread was very helpful from the great woodworkers on the forum. So while looking at saws on ebay I found this saw. There were […]
Our monthly Woodworkers Guild Of GA meeting was last night. The program, “How to fit drawers”, was presented by Steve Quehl. WOW, What an incredible presentation. Steve is an excellent craftsman and speaker. While the topic was How to fit drawers, the topic was really how to build a sqaure table. So why don’t drawers […]
A good friend of mine asked if I could make a small “Prayer Request” box. He wanted to hang out in the shop with me as I worked on the project. Well for an extrovert a friend is the shop is a good time. So we started. I had some left over cypress that looked […]
