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. …
So I got the opportunity to sell at Moorestown Day for the second time. This is a craft fair/street fair in my hometown, and as you would expect, its full of food, craft vendors, kids and fun. A great time in small town America. In order to prepare for it, I had to replace some …
This Memorial Day weekend, I had the opportunity to start selling my wares at the Moorestown NJ farmer’s market. It was voted as the #1 farmer’s market in New Jersey ( ) so I am pretty honored to be celebrating my sixth year selling there. It is always a lot of fun talking with folks …
New Project: Small Cabinet with drawers: part 1 – design I had a client approach me with a request to build a custom small cabinet with drawers to store medicinal herbs they use. The drawer dimensions were very specific, as they had to store a certain type of container in a way they could be …
I wanted to further improve my hand tool abilities, so I took an idea from Paul Sellers (www.woodworkingmasterclass.com) an accomplished hand tool woodworker from Britain, with 50+ years of experience. He now teaches online, and does a great job. The tray consists of equal parts of Walnut and Maple. I could have used a wide …
I need to make new product for the 2025 Farmer’s Markets. So I needed to create some new end-grain cutting boards. The process for this one uses standard 13/16” boards, instead of having to get 8/4 (i.e. 2” thick) boards. The patters that it makes are pretty cool. I chose to make them out of …
As I have noted in the past, I typically put aside one weekend a month to do shop maintenance/improvement. This helps keep my shop tip top and ready to go, and helps to improve the efficiency of the shop overall. For this month, I had four things I wanted to do: The sharpening is not …
Well, I had all these plans this weekend to get work done, but I have come down with some sort of crud that has floored me. Pretty weak, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, etc. Its not the flu or Covid, but a really bad head cold. Wife had it last week, and apparently gave it to me. …
I wanted to build some more artistic style charcuterie boards for the new year. One of the ones I wanted to build was a three-dimensional end-grain board. There are a lot of process steps, and the wood is somewhat expensive, but in the end, it comes out with something beautiful. So you start off with …
I wanted to build something with just hand tools to improve my skills and demonstrate that I could do it. Many folks don’t understand that, if you are building 10, 20, 100 of an item, then machinery and power tools certainly help. Once they are set up, you can run the same part over and …
