I’ve never been big on making New Year’s Resolutions, but this year I decided to make a couple personal and woodworking resolutions. Resolutions are like goals, they need to be realistic and you have to have a plan in place, on how you are going to achieve your goal. I’m making two woodworking resolutions this [...]
This was another project I started a couple of months ago, and now I’m finding time to finish it up. Awhile ago, I made a foot rest for one of the LumberJocks contests. It was for my wife and it was loosely based on a nursing stool she had. Although we never had kids that [...]
I started this project a couple months ago, before my back problems started. Now that things are better and I have time off from work, I finished up a few of the minor details on this project. The pictures I took during the building of the Outfeed Table have vanished, so here are some pictures [...]
This last weekend I attended a class at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. The class was with Darrell Peart and the class was his Greene and Greene Details I class. It was a fun class, with lot of good information. Darrell started the class with a great slideshow of Greene and Greene and many [...]
Well it’s been awhile since I posted anything. Between a failed hard drive on my computer and just other obligations, updating the blog took a backseat for a while. SawStop Update I’ve had a chance to give the new SawStop a good workout. I couldn’t be more happier with it. It has the power I [...]
This last weekend was a red-letter day for me, I upgraded to a cabinet saw! I’ve been looking to get a new saw for a while now. I looked at just about every saw out there. I knew I wanted a cabinet saw and at least a 3HP motor. I also wanted a useable blade [...]
I spent this last weekend in the lovely town of Port Townsend,Wa. It’s one of my wife’s and my favorite places to go, for a weekend getaway. Now that they have a woodworking school there, we (me) have even more of a reason to go there. This was the first class I had taken at [...]
I have yet to have a project that has given me more grief as this little table. It seems it’s been one thing after another with this project! A few of weeks ago I attached the curved part of the apron, and while clamping it for the glue up the apron distorted slightly. Ok, that [...]
The small table I’m making will have 4-way tapered legs. I tried a simple jig at first, you can see it in one of my previous post. With that jig and making a 4-way taper you have account for the amount of material you removed when you get to the third face. I found even [...]
For a project that I thought was going to an easy knock it out quick project, it has turned into a frustrating little project. In my last post I showed some of the problems I had with the apron and the tapers on the legs. I have remade the apron and it came out much [...]
