I attended another market in Moorestown NJ today (Aug 13th) and several customers suggested I post my future visits to the market coming up. I’ll be at the Mooretown Farmer’s Market on: Sep 24th Oct 22nd Thanksgiving Market (date TBD) Christmas Market (date TBD)
About once a month, I attend our local farmer’s market and sell my wares. Its an opportunity to talk with people about the craft, talk with other vendors, and generally get out and enjoy the day. Saturday’s weather was pretty nice, temps in the 80s with low humidity. This time, I was in the “barn” …
Next project I’m working at is a small dovetailed box, the kind that can hold candles or act as a pencil box for a kid’s art pencils. Its an opportunity to work on my hand-cut dovetails, putting grooves in and doing some additional hand work for the project. Starting with five pieces of quality pine: …
One of the challenges in doing hand tool work is that for some processes (planning, sawing) you need a lower bench height, and for others (cutting joinery, carving) you need a higher bench height. Folks get around this in a variety of ways. Some build smaller “bench on bench” items, which sit on their normal …
Thought I”d give you an idea of the shop, from 1993 to now. Its been an interesting ride, as I slowly built up my woodworking skills and tools, and built the shop up. My wife and I moved into our house in 1993, a bit of a fixer-upper, with lots to do, and not enough …
Well, finally got back to the joinery bench, after working on some other projects. The idea for this is to create a taller bench for doing detailed work (dovetailing, carving, etc.). It will also be somewhat “portable” so I could take it to craft shows/farmer’s markets to demo on. Here its shown upside down, with …
Found this plan in a box making book and thought it was pretty ingenious. The box is setup to store a bottle of wine securely, but it has a tray/lid that can then be “flipped” and used as a tray on top. It can then be used for jewelry or odds & ends. A great …
In trying to build the joinery workbench, I chose to use drawbores to help reinforce the mortise & tenon joints. Drawboring is a very old technique for joinery, used in the age when glues were expensive or non-existent. The idea is to drill a hole in the wood holding the mortise, and then drill an …
So I’ve been continuing my work on the joinery bench. The idea of the bench is to get a smaller bench which sits taller, so doing careful furniture joinery work (dovetails, carving, etc.) It’s higher up, with better visibility, especially for someone whose eyesight isn’t as good. Like most workbenches, the joinery here is large. …
One of the challenges of working in a small shop is the need to apply finish to a project in an area that is covered with dust. Every time you walk, you stir it up, and it ends up on your finish. Large shops typically have a s completely separate room for finishing, and often …
