With all the necessary cleaning / drying taking place in the shop, it was a good opportunity to do some bench maintenance. On the one hand my bench is nothing to write home about. It was born of affordability combined … Continue reading
Twice this week the check valve on the sump pump in the basement has busted, spraying water across about a fourth of the basement: the fourth of the basement where my bench, tools, and wood are at. So my woodworking … Continue reading
My current project is a small hanging shelf. If it turns out well it will be shipped to my Mother who will use it to display an antique clock that is 13” wide by 4” deep by 19” high. I … Continue reading
My most enjoyable times in the shop have happened when I only had a vague idea how I was making something. I’ve known that I want to end up with a small table, or a box, or some shop jig. … Continue reading
In the shop yesterday morning, feeling frustrated. I needed to make something – anything. I stared at my tools, thinking about how I didn’t have all the wood I needed for any of the projects on my to-do list. As … Continue reading
Not that I wouldn’t still recommend this book, but… Below is an excerpt from Robert Wearing’s The Essential Woodworker: Skills, Tools And Methods. To learn to gauge, first put a length of wood in the vice, projecting about 50mm (2in.). … Continue reading
My beginner’s tool list: Workbench Panel cross-cut saw Two back saws, one rip, one cross-cut Stanley No. 5 Jack plane, or non-Stanley equivalent One 3/4″ chisel One 1/4″ mortise chisel [edit: go with a 3/8″ not 1/4″] A Mallet Two … Continue reading
Got around today to adding a shoulder plane to my tool collection. I chose to go with the large plane with a 1 1/4″ wide blade. There’s an argument made by Chris Schwarz in The Anarchist’s Tool Chest that a … Continue reading
A woodworking journey
craft+community
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English and Irish furniture &c.
Pursuing a hobby working with wood
Pursuing a hobby working with wood
A Woodworking and Hand Tool Restoration Blog
A personal tribute to digital narcissism
Pursuing a hobby working with wood
Sustainable wooden signs and fine hardwood boxes.
A hand tool wood working adventure in the Great Land
Pursuing a hobby working with wood
Flatlander
Woodworking Hand Tools & Techniques
Mostly about Sharpening for Woodworkers
Ramblings of a Recusant Woodworker
(mostly) unplugged woodworking
Andrew's view of the world in poetry, prose, and picture
The Project Diary of Alysia DeVries
Furniture Designer and Maker
An amature woodworker who works as a data analytics consultant
The great secret of education is to combine mental and physical work so that the one kind of exercise refreshes the other.
Just another WordPress.com site
– A Lifestyle Woodworker –
Recreation - Re-creation: Things made by Matt Rae
My Projects
Unplugged Woodworking history, philosophy and technique
Musings of an Imperfect Man In Search of a Handmade Life
Real life hobbyist woodworking
Programmer by day, at night I become...The Woodwork Geek!
Tools and Woodworking for fun
A woodworking blog by Bill Rittner
Hardwoods from St. Charles & St. Louis (Live-edge slabs, lumber and woodworking)
Add lightness...and simplify. -J. Brown
The Craftsman of Flaim Design Co
A great WordPress.com site
Making what I need with my hands.
Woodworking for Sanity
w o o d w o r k e r
seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools
Just trying to leave something behind.
Looking like Captain America since 2014
A wood blog by Craig
A WOMAN, HER WOODWORKING PROJECTS AND A BLOG. I HOPE YOU FIND USEFUL INFORMATION HERE.
Fine Woodwork with Jonathan Price
