I was sidelined for about 2 weeks due to a back/hip injury (sciatica). Makes it difficult to bend over, lift and manipulate items, plane wood, etc. So my spouse made we relax, stretch, and do mild exercise – and stay out of the shop. Very agonizing…. Well, feeling better now (not 100%) so its time …
Back in the shop, working on end-grain cutting boards Read More »
Been selling a lot of the phone stands lately, to the point where I am down to only one remaining. Time to make some more. Process, while simple, involves several steps of gluing and cutting which slows the process down somewhat Cut strips of wood to width, roughly 30” long (enough for two phone stands) …
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: …
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 …
In making mortise and tenon joints, one of the challenges is to make sure the tenon fit into the mortise so that its tight, but not too tight. There are all sorts of jigs and methods to do this on the tablesaw, with a router table, with hand tools, etc. In this case, I’ve got …
Several months ago, I redid the storage setup for my wife. We pulled out the old setup, and installed a corner cabinet for shelf storage, which helped solve that pesky “what do you do with a corner of the closet” problem. It was a fun little project, and it helped to save money vs. having …
I put the finish and hardware on the jewelry cabinets. I’ve made two of them for my two nieces getting married this year, plus a couple of extras to sell. The cabinets are made out of cherry, with hard maple drawers. It is based on a design from the Philadelphia Furniture Workshop, and consists of …
One of the more stressful parts of making wood projects is the glue up part of the project. You have all the joinery cut (in this case box joints) and you’ve done some test fits to make sure everything works. You have gathered together your glue, clamps and cauls (wood pieces to help apply pressure …
So I’ve got the boards milled down to the proper thickness, cut to length and width for the cabinet top, bottom and sides. Then I cut box joints in 2 of the cabinet sets, and then 45-degree miters for the other 3 (trying two different methods). Added dado (4 of them) in each side for …
