Changing the wood one shaving at a time ;0)
My mom recently decided to buy the inventory of a little quilt shop and run it out of her basement. I’m really excited for her, after woodworking I like sewing next :0) She likes sewing first and I hope this little quilt shop held her share her love of quilting and sewing with others. Naming… Continue reading Mom’s Quilt Shop part I
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.
In Wood and Plywood Cart Part I I built a base and finished the plywood side of the cart, now we’re going to add some shelves and bid to the other side of the cart. First I covered the bottom and 3’ of the back with plywood. Bottom and back of all shelves and bins… Continue reading Wood and Plywood Cart Part II
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
Keeping up with Wesley’s projects can be a full time job :0)
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 three youngest girls have been pestering me for desks for quite some time now.
Wes started making LEGO versions of my tools last week. I thought they were pretty great! So today I had him set up the rest of the shop in for our enjoyment :0) Here I am in the shop :0) The yellow planer was one of the first machines he came to show me. It… Continue reading My Shop in Legos
I’ve had this Stanley no. 78 for a couple of months now and finally got around to really using it for the first time.
My favorite plane is a little brass chariot plane made by Marples & Sons of Sheffield England.
Girl with a Hand Plane 