Coming Soon: A Lie-Nielsen DVD on Sawing
This summer Lie-Nielsen Toolworks will release a DVD on the basic principles of using handsaws and backsaws. During the video, I quote the Bible, cut all sorts of joints and am constantly menaced [...]
Welcome to the Early Bob Period
The dust collection on our shop’s cabinet saw sucks. Let me re-phrase that. It doesn’t suck. Zero suckage. Two holes. Tons of waiting. We have a big cyclone dust-collection system. We [...]
New Class: 'Sawing Secrets' at the Woodwright's School
For me, this is like the day I first saw my name in the phone book. I am somebody. This summer I’m teaching a three-day class at Roy Underhill’s school, The Woodwright’s School, [...]
I See a Red Door…
This morning I added a coat of pitch black milk paint to my sack-back chair. After you strain milk paint, it’s a lot more like adding a colored wash than it is like painting. (It’s [...]
A Little Bit of Red
Early chairs , especially American ones , look best when they are painted. Like any good woodworker who is in love with his or her raw material, I’ve tried to make stick chairs without [...]
Video: Moxon’s Bench Screw — Tweaked
As the finish was drying yesterday on my double-screw vise, I took a few minutes to turn a new handle for my bench screw, which pierces my crochet (which sounds dirty, but isn’t really). [...]
Joseph Moxon's Double-screw Vise
When I was a young nerdling, I loved the video game “Ultima” , not because of the raping and the pillaging, but because you spent most of your time exploring a huge map of the world. [...]
Registration Update for Woodworking in America
Fair warning: I have little doubt that we will sell out our Woodworking in America conference Oct. 1-3 in Cincinnati. We already have more people registered than we did for our first conference [...]
Odate Crowning Plate Sharpening Stones
Achieving a perfectly curved and polished cutting edge on your plane irons is an essential skill that many new hand plane users struggle with. A new type of diamond stone is just now becoming [...]
Registration Update for Woodworking in America
Fair warning: I have little doubt that we will sell out our Woodworking in America conference Oct. 1-3 in Cincinnati. We already have more people registered than we did for our first conference [...]
Windsor Institute, Day 5
“When newspaper reporters write about this school, some of them write, ‘And he builds chairs without using nails!’ That’s like saying: ‘And he builds automobiles [...]
Windsor Institute, Day 4
Chair classes are like soap operas. There are long periods where everything is reasonable and rational. And those are punctuated by brief forays into the bizarre, unreal or macabre. As we close [...]
