Been busy with life and summer time tasks (mowing, outdoor maintenance, vacations, etc.) so haven’t spent that much time in the shop. Been selling fairly well at the markets I have attended, and I completed several commissions. So I needed to work on the items I feel (based on sales) that I will need to …
Saw this design and wanted to make this for a commission customer. Made of Mahogany, it has three small slots in the back with holes for charging cables, a cloth top for holding items (keys, glasses, etc.) and a pull out drawer for personal items. While the build was challenging, I enjoyed getting the work …
Sometimes, you just have to admit that the project is not going well, and just cut your losses. I was working on building a couple of 3-dimensional cutting boards, which are very pretty but very involved. There are a lot of steps (milling up, gluing, cutting angles, planning, ripping, re-gluing, etc.). If you mess up …
So my planer has been acting up lately, failing to start and losing power. After doing some evaluation and consulting folks on the internet and the company that made it (DeWalt) I determined that the probable issue was the brushes on the motor. This would be the first thing to replace and see if the …
I’ve spoken before about how I use one weekend a month to do shop improvements, to try to enhance the productivity and accuracy of my operations. So last weekend I set aside a full day to work on the shop. I sharpened and reset my shoulder planes. These are used to clean up tenons and …
Just got finished making a bunch of new product for the farmer’s markets, as sales have been pretty brisque on a lot of items. Finished a show on Saturday (26th) and while sales were very good, I still am in pretty good shape in terms of inventory. So its on to a project I’ve been …
No updates from the shop this week. I went to Vermont/New Hampshire, and did some backpacking in the White Mountains. Did a four day trip up to the top of Mount Washington (6,084 feet), staying in some of the AMC huts. A great time and a lot of exercises.
I was asked to make a pasta rolling board for a customer to a specific size – 30” wide x 24” deep. She had a few pictures and etsy links. The traditional wood used in Italy is lime wood (also known as linden or basswood). The wood is fairly stable, but can be cut or …
I wrote back in mid-May about a customer asking for a small, four drawer cabinet to store their homeopathy medicines. The medicine comes in small tubes, and she needed each drawer to hold three rows of 12 – so overall the cabinet would be able to store 144 tubes (4 drawers * 3 rows * …
As you would expect, life gets busy in the summer time. I’m still working at my engineering job, still taking time off for hobbies (just finished backpacking in New Hampshire) and doing work outdoors (mowing lawn, weeding, gardening, etc.). Woodworking tends to slow down in the summertime, and I am just as guilty as others. …
