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For a Sleigh and a reindeer? out of 1/2" thick pallet slats for a sleigh? just some nails, glue, and an 1/8" dowel or maybe a scrap piece of 1×6...

Stanley’s Sweetheart socket chisels should be for sale in the United States in about six to eight weeks, according to a company product manager. The chisels are in the final...

Peter Follansbee and Mike Siemsen have cleared up the mystery of the pinwheel-shaped wooden nails. The pinwheel shape of the nails is caused by the shell or gimlet bit used...

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,”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Glue ups with some of the arms in place Parts, two top rails, a spindle shaped, a foot and an arm Fitted up, posts were turned on on my lathe...

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,...

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...

"Front View" "Dutchman" on bottom apron, covering an old bolt hole shelving:  center divider is notched to the middle shelf, just a slip fit in a notch in the shelf...