Changing the wood one shaving at a time ;0)
Wes has been begging for his own workshop for “forever.” Since he is getting older, he doesn’t like sharing shop space with his mom as much as he used to. We finally moved the grain silo to a new location and started getting him set up. Mary helping pull apart the platform The grain silo… Continue reading Moving Wes to His Own Shop
Earlier this summer I decided to try making a River table for Jared out of some of the Burr oak slabs I left live edges on…it was a bit of an adventure to say the least ;0). But did work eventually. Once the epoxy decided it would in fact cure, I had tons of cleanup… Continue reading Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill
The first few logs I milled last fall I left the bark on rather then square up the log prior to cutting boards. This resulted in some wavy boards and other questionable lumber on the first log, the second went a little better. I’m glad I did this on a few logs, live edge lumber… Continue reading Draw Knives and Helping Hands
I’ve been working on a Moravian Workbench for almost two years now and this week I finally have a working tail vice on the bench with accompanying dog holes!!! Tail Vice This is really exciting because the whole concept behind the Moravian workbench is to have a portable bench that you can take to the… Continue reading Moravian Workbench Tail Vice
Storing plywood is always a problem, you end up with stacks of it leaning on all of the walls, and little pieces get stashed behind bigger ones, and you forget what you have hidden.
A few years ago I received a Woodcraft flier in the mail. Usually not a big deal and pretty harmless to the pocketbook, except this time I was traveling to a city major city with a Woodcraft store. The result was that I walked out of there with a tenoning jig that sat for a… Continue reading WoodRiver Deluxe Tenoning Jig
As part of the Display Case work station, I'm building in a Moxen vice for dovetailing and other light clamping operations. I thought I was making this out of oak to match the rest of the work station, but as soon as I started cleaning up the board with a scrub plane I realized this… Continue reading Mortising in the Nuts on My Moxen Vice
My favorite plane is a little brass chariot plane made by Marples & Sons of Sheffield England.
In my previous post Do You Need a Scrub Plane? I pointed out the benefits of using a scrub plane on dirty wood before running it through any type of machinery. I still have a small pile of boards to clean up prior to dimensioning for the top of my Display Case workbench and thought… Continue reading Removing Crown and other Scrub Plane Tasks
Girl with a Hand Plane 