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My friend Chela loves chickens. She loves them so much that the first few weeks after they arrived (in the mail, if you can believe it) she hosted them in her bedroom. But then the chicks grew so [...]

ALL  TUBES DO COME IN HANDY ? WHY THROW AWAY ? DO YOU HAVE IDEAS FOR EMPTY TUBES????…

Now that I had my thick-walled hollow wooden form built, I had to draw the curved outline of the finished shape onto two adjoining faces of the form. The process is very straightforward. The [...]

  A few months ago I blogged about the advent of India-made premium planes. I said that I will try to get a hold of a shoulder plane, a clone of the Record No.311, and run a [...]

THESE ARE THROWN AWAY EVERY DAY . SO WHY THROW ? WHY NOT RECYCLE WASTE CARDBOARD TUBES??? NO USE TO ANYONE ? BUT TO ME IDEAS/ DESIGNS ??? BASIC TOOLS AND GLUE REQUIRED…THE ROUND SEAT?? [...]

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The Way Wood Works: Birch This affordable wood is great for both high-end and utilitarian cabinetry. By Tim Johnson Birch is a hot item at the lumberyard these days, and birch veneer is the [...]

School’s Woodworking Awards: Mark Greensburg, KS Tornado Recovery Lavergne, TN – In his own words, Industrial Technology Instructor Peter Kern was blown away when his students at Kiowa [...]

Wrench/spanner through wood  a bigger than normal spanner/wrench.As always no joins /cuts . This one took 5 hours to perfect and has amazed a few people here in the UK. Timber is 12 inches x [...]

The Way Wood Works: Reading Grain Direction By Tom Caspar “Going against the grain” is a familiar phrase. It means doing something the wrong way.When you’re talking about wood, [...]

Selecting "Best of Show" awards at the San Diego "Design in Wood" exhibition on behalf of Woodwork and American Woodwork was a challenge. As I described in my last blog, the [...]

  The dedication sign reads 1983 because this was the year that the couple who commissioned the chest had met. With acrylic and black india ink I painted their [...]