I always planned on making Mary & Cora a magnet board to go with their desks and finally got to it this month. I wasn’t sure where to start shopping for sheet metal and stopped first at a local machine shop. They had a dumpster I could look through as well as some 1/16th inch… Continue reading Magnet Boards with the Kids
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Shop Floor Update
I’ve really enjoyed having my end grain floor in the shop! There is a huge difference just stepping up onto it from the concrete next to it. I think all of the time I put into laying it has paid off. It has fulfilled it’s two primary goals: 1) It’s easier on the joints to… Continue reading Shop Floor Update
Gramercy vs Auriou Rasps
One of my favorite places to shop for tools is Tools For Working Wood. This list is always long of tools I would like to buy from them and cabinet makers rasps had been on that list for awhile. Gramercy is their brand and I really like their dovetail square and saw sharpening vice. Auriou… Continue reading Gramercy vs Auriou Rasps
Mary & Cora’s Christmas Desks
This whole desk adventure started with the twins, Mary and Cora. I had decided to build a wall to separate what was their room with the TV area in the basement and build a large corner desk unit for them to share. I had drawn the plans, bought the plywood, cut the plywood...and then Cora… Continue reading Mary & Cora’s Christmas Desks
Wesley’s Christmas Desk
Keeping kids organized is a full time job ;0). With so many moves and furniture never fitting the same in the new house, it’s been easy to put off making/buying furniture for each kid that wasn’t temporary in nature. The basement still needs some updating...I keep putting it off in hopes we will be able… Continue reading Wesley’s Christmas Desk
Kaylee’s Wolf Bed
My 9 year old has a favorite stuffed wolf named Wolfie. She wanted to make her a bed for Christmas and made sure I took her out to the shop to do it. Note: there are no pictures of Wolfie in his bed yet because she cannot see it before Christmas!! Kaylee and the finished… Continue reading Kaylee’s Wolf Bed
Peace with the Router Table
All the pieces to the Adirondack chair I started on in late June have been taking up space on one work surface or another for months. After all, this was the project that sent me to the ER back in July and I found plenty of other things to work on. Now that it’s colder,… Continue reading Peace with the Router Table
Experiment with Thin Oak Boards
At first I thought I needed to hurry up and get the extensions put on my bandsaw mill so I could mill longer logs...but it turns out that our little tractor won’t pick up anything longer than an 8’ oak log, so I’ve cut the ends off of the longer logs in order to mill… Continue reading Experiment with Thin Oak Boards
There’s a Hole in the Bucket…and other Shop Keeping
From a rather young age I’ve always hated the song “There’s a Hole in the Bucket”. It drove me crazy that he wouldn’t just patch the bucket just enough to get enough to get the whet stone wet. Then he could have sharpened his knife and done the job right. It would seem like we… Continue reading There’s a Hole in the Bucket…and other Shop Keeping
Lessons in Milling logs: Burr Oak Challenges
After my last adventure with wavy boards I watched a few milling videos to try to determine which blades I should buy to mill these oak logs. In one of them the guy mentioned that burr oak was a really hard wood and he used different blades on it that other types of oak. Challenge… Continue reading Lessons in Milling logs: Burr Oak Challenges