How do you become good at something? Practice, practice, practice. This holds true for woodworking, as it does for: sports, games, cooking (Bar-B-Q!), etc. I don’t do my own Bar-B-Q, and I don’t mean grilling in the backyard. There are some things I just leave to the professionals. This last Saturday I had a fun [...]
Cutting the Tails The last installment of this series I showed how I layout the tails. Now it’s time to do some cutting. When cutting Tails first, you really only need to concern about cutting perpendicular across the end of the board. If you can get this perpendicular cut dead on, you have solved most [...]
I finally was able to start on the Silverware Trays this weekend. The last few weekends have been busy with other activities. This last weekend was our 11th wedding anniversary and we spent a fun weekend in Leavenworth, Wa. It’s a fun little Bavarian themed town, not too far from Seattle. There was this nice [...]
Please check out my review on lumberjocks.com, of Hendrik Varju’s new DVD Revelations on Table Saw Set-up & Safety.
I did a quick tire change on the bandsaw this weekend and tested out the new bandsaw blade I ordered. The tire change went fast without any problems. It was then onto testing this new killer blade. Resaw King bandsaw bladeThe bandsaw blades I’ve been using lately have been Wood Slicer blades. I’ve been really [...]
It’s interesting how your grip can dramatically change how something reacts or performs. If I squeeze my wife’s hand too hard, I’m liable to get punched! If I grip my golf club too hard, I will hook or slice the ball. There are many other examples like this. So why didn’t I use this knowledge [...]
My last post really went into a lot of detail on what cuts I used on which joints, to demonstrate where the different classes cuts can be used. I won’t bore you with that kind of detail in this post. Instead I just give a general overview of what we did for our final project [...]
It was my intention to post updates each evening, but that just didn’t happen. Several of the evenings were spent doing other activities. The first night Chris went out to dinner with a group of us. The second night I was just too tired. The night Gary Rogowski had a Bar-B-Q potluck at the shop. [...]
