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Once the lid was completed I turned to instal its hinges. Using a utility knife I outlined the shallow sink where the hinges were to be embedded. I used narrow and wide chisels to excavate the [...]

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I always stress to my students the importance of "designing WITH the grain". By that I mean designing a piece with grain orientation in mind, not only for [...]

  Video Tommy Mac’s Dream Shop Video Convert a battery charger into a transformer for a wood-burning pen. Primer on Japanese pull saws. Pocket-screw joinery basics. 12 tips for better [...]

Early on when I started writing about the Hope-chest I mentioned that I used an old piano part for the lid. Here is a picture of the lid and its original frame. I have to admit that I tried hard [...]

In this blog entry I will show how the hope-chest case was glued together.  1. The sides were glued to the bottom and await the next stage: dropping on the two end parts. 2. Here [...]

The legs for my hope chest were made from old furniture discarded by Harvard University. Harvard has a place called "Harvard Surplus Center", or as we used to nickname [...]

Old one was getting a bit beat up, one grandBRAT needed a desk for HIS computer.   Decided to make a new bottomhalf, and just re-use the small hutch from the old [...]

      i needed a few planes for the shop.   Decided to go visit a few “thrift stores” in my area.     Found a few rusty, CHEAP planes.     Just needed some work to [...]

  Is underway.   i started with some old, nail-sick, UGLY beams from a garage that fell down, old age.    enough for four legs and some other [...]

The last version of the hope-chest was the one that both my clients and I loved the most. It called for a frame and panel construction and a lid that once used to be part of a [...]