Advent 2023

Early on in my woodworking journey I made a bunch of tools, most (or all?) documented in this series of articles. Many, maybe even most, of those tools…

Dec 25, 2023 •

Some wood requires a blood sacrifice

Dec 24, 2023 •

Metal Collaborations

Some stories require metal. Some require other people.

Dec 23, 2023 •

A few months after I started this hobby Paul Sellers published a video about how to make your own router plane. I was completely transfixed, but almost…

Dec 22, 2023 •

I am proud of nearly all of the work I have produced. There is a single tip that you can use to have these kinds of good results: practice. I do not…

Dec 21, 2023 •

Sometimes you just need to hit things really hard

Dec 20, 2023 •

Dutch Toolchest

A place for everything and everything in its place

Dec 19, 2023 •

Workbench: Tooltray

Trojan Microwave

Dec 18, 2023 •

Workbench: Vise

From this point on nearly all the work I did, on the bench or otherwise, was done using the undercarriage. With the old Japanese Sawhorses the benchtop…

Dec 17, 2023 •

Workbench: Undercarriage

Legs that Go for Days

Dec 16, 2023 •

When I made my first Saw Till one of the most frustrating parts of the project was using a coping saw to cut a curve. Coping saws are fine, but they…

Dec 15, 2023 •

Be careful who you work with

Dec 14, 2023 •

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