Rehandling a Chisel

For the last week or so I’ve been researching the science of smacking the snot out of things. I’ve been reading lecture notes from a Harvard course on “fracture mechanics,”...

Easy Furniture for Everyone

One of my favorite pieces of Arts & Crafts furniture is the Morris chair. Strong, comfortable (for reading or relaxing), ample seat area for one-and-a-half people, and generally not all...

Reclaimed lumber

Picked up some boards that were thrown away at a remodel project down the street and I needed a railing for a front porch and ripped a few boards down...

more from that chest of drawers

Details of the end panels and the top's frame the 'wood pile', from old barn siding, most of this went into the end panels Drawer construction, just dovetails on the...

Old water bed=new sofa table

glue-ups, end view Top and bottom shelf added All the parts, but the plywood shelf from water bed frames, to this Which's Brew Walnut stain.   Size is 16" wide(top)  by...

More on a chest of drawers

Drawer parts, awaiting dovetails, face frames screwed in place with plugs over the screws. with some finish on them Back side of the drawers, the screw is a drawer stop,...

More Dutchmans

In place, will be stained to match tool kit, this is mostly what I used Locations marked out, showing the defects to be covered up A single one on an...

How I build a chest of drawers

end panels web frames details of the frames face frames and drawers.  Top in place Details of top's frame, showing a center stretcher.  Plywood top sits in the rabbet around...