Thin, Good Looking & Strong – Micro Plywood Splines, Part 2
It is very easy to install thin plywood splines in mitered corners of boxes and frames But, to do so successfully, you will have to design the placement pattern of...
Thin, Good Looking & Strong – Micro Plywood Splines, Part 1
While designing a 9th-grade box project, one thing kept bugging me: How should we reinforce the miter joints at the corners of the boxes? After cutting the miters and gluing...
Tool Lubrication & Asher’s First Eggbeater Hand Drill – Part 2
Giving a toddler an open-geared eggbeater hand drill is risky business because the gears can pinch their fingers and ultimately scare them away from woodworking tools for a while. Therefore,...
Tool Lubrication & Asher’s First Eggbeater Hand Drill – Part 1
Asher, who turned two last week, shows a promising appetite for woodworking tools. He is a frequent visitor to my home shop, where he examines the tools that he can...
Shape a Mallet Out of a Branch Part 2
After cutting the branch to length, sawing around the neck and chipping away most of the wood around the handle, the time comes to grab a half-round rasp and begin...
How to Shape a Mallet Out of a Branch
To initiate our fourth graders into woodworking, we offer them a branch and show them how to shape it into a mallet. The branch-mallet is a great project to introduce...
Live Edge Waterfall Coffee Table: Conclusion
Drilling a mortise, gluing and finishing a live-edge waterfall coffee table. A few months ago I began telling you stories of the furniture built in the live-edge class that I...
Reinforcing & Gluing a Waterfall Miter Joint
Once you finish creating a nice miter joint, then comes the time to think about making the joint stronger. As glue alone will not suffice, adding splines or keys in...
George Nakashima’s Furniture: A Documentary by Danielle Ohad
It is by mere coincidence that as I am about to wrap up my recent bundle of blog entries about live-edge design, my friend Daniella Ohad is releasing her highly engaging documentary about George...
Cutting a Waterfall Miter on the Table Saw: Two Live Edges
When both edges of your slab are “live edge” you can’t rely on them for crosscutting or sawing off accurate miters. This is because tucking a live edge against the...
Cutting a Waterfall Miter on the Table Saw: One Live Edge
There are a few ways to cut a waterfall miter on the table saw. To determine which way suits you best, you first need to determine whether your furniture is...
Creating a Waterfall Joint With a Portable Circular Saw
In continuation of the story of our live edge waterfall coffee table, today I will show a way to accurately cut a miter joint on a live edge slab with...
