Changing the wood one shaving at a time ;0)
Somehow I didn’t count right when ordering dowels for the Climbing Wall and ended up with seven extra. As I was researching how to make the Swedish Ladder portion for B I kept running across these mini triangle climbing ladders for toddlers. It looked easy enough so I made one for my twin nieces that… Continue reading Climbing Ladder for Toddlers
One Saturday a while ago I let the kids watch way to much TV, drove 45 minutes to the “Big City” and walked around Hobby Lobby for a good two hours. While I was there I found some clip board clips. My first idea for them was a flop...but after I learned to make ocean… Continue reading Clipboards can be fun ;0)
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
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
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
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
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
As careful as we wood workers try to be in the shop, accidents happen and set you back for a while. Such an accident happened on July 7th this year. I was working on some oak Adirondack chairs when the wood went the opposite way I intended it to at the router table. The short… Continue reading Accidents happen :0(
I think it was last September or October I went to Home Depot and spent an hour trying to find the best quarter sawn 2x10’s I could in the rack thinking I would be whipping out my very own portable Moravian bench in short order...not so much, I’m still working on it. Last month sometime… Continue reading Mary’s Toolbox
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.
Girl with a Hand Plane 