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Ok, Daughter wanted a small Dinette Table for the kitchen.    I had some old planks down in the Dungeon Shop.  Milled up an old Oak 2×8 into four leg blanks.This...

Let me say this first: You are welcome to put a holdfast hole anywhere you please. No one will think less of you. In fact, if you are questioned by...

A JOB LOT OF SLEEPERS £300 .SIMPLE IDEAS ARE THE BEST.AND YOU CAN HAVE CUSHIONS CUSTOM MADE. THESE SELL FOR £125 .BASIC TOOLS NEEDED . AND THESE ARE UNIQUE . 

MADE FROM OFF CUTS OF RECLAIMED TIMBER . THESE CAN BE OILED/VARNISHED/POLISHED. IDEAS ARE UNLIMITED TO WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THEM . EASY TO SELL FOR A FEW POUNDS/DOLLARS...

While we don’t yet have all the particulars nailed down for Woodworking in America 2013, we do know: When: October 18-20, 2013 Where: Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Ky.,...

I spent much of Friday in the shop, tuning up machines in preparation for an upcoming magazine project. The thing I will be building is rather small, but with some...

I’ve been turning for about seven years now and have completed hundreds of objects ranging from table legs to large bowls to tiny bottle stoppers. Yet I’d never undertaken a...

For the last three years I have been paring down my working tool set to the bare minimum by selling off or giving away many of the tools that I...

  In my last post I mentioned how I completed the piece and brought it to the gallery. The gallery owner looked at the teapot and seemed surprised, explaining that she expected a...

I’m in the midst of trolling through the deep dark past of Christopher Schwarz’s blog, as I gather information for a forthcoming book (assuming we can convince marketing that anyone...

I’ve been bouncing all around the Internet reading the many posts that are helping to get the word out about “Get Woodworking Week” – an idea conceived of and promulgated...

My last entry focused on the fortuitous way I found the raw material and tracked the design process. This time I will show how I created the teapot. First, I glued together the...