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Workbench Build - Splayed leg French Bench #15: Wooden Screws - The Last Word
Ok you are probably as tired of hearing about wooden screws as I am of trying to make them. This will be brief. New method picked up on this blog. Pretty self-explanatory. This method has much less...
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Workbench Build - Splayed leg French Bench #16: Leg Vise Part 1
Welcome back to my blog series folks. Thanks for following along on this long journey of mine. It’s hard to believe I started cutting up the parts for my top in January. It’s taken me almost a year....
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Workbench Build - Splayed leg French Bench #17: Leg Vise Part 2
Welcome back folks. Progress has been slow but steady. I’m in the home stretch now. I need to finish up this leg vise, then the lower shelf and I’ll be ready for final assembly. A while back BrandonW...
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Workbench Build - Splayed leg French Bench #18: The Shelf
I’m surprised at how much progress I’ve made since the last blog, especially since this part was pretty hand tool intensive. The following is the process I went through the make the lower shelf. I had...
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Workbench Build - Splayed leg French Bench #19: Drawbore Assembly
Hello again folks. Here I am in the home stretch. I say that but I know there are still a bunch of details left. I decided to go with drawbored Mortise and Tenons with no glue. The splayed legs on this...
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Workbench Build - Splayed leg French Bench #20: Final Top Prep and Tool Tray...
Ok folks we have some momentum going here and have made some real progress lately. We’re getting close to the end. So the idea is, flatten the top, glue and bolt on the tool tray, then plane to tray to...
View ArticleBuilding Pharaoh's Chariot - Nova
Here is great show. Historians study the Egyptian chariot and then build it just like the original. Some pretty amazing ancient woodworking. It’s about an hour long and is free online. Enjoy!...
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Workbench Build - Splayed leg French Bench #21: The Finish
Hello again friends. Ok I know this bench build has been a little anticlimactic because you have seen the bench put together a million times. But this should be my final post on this bench build…...
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My Sharpening Process
Bigredknothead did a blog on his sharpening process recently and I thought it was a good idea; I enjoyed reading it and wish more people would do the same. So I’m following suit and hope that others...
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Bunk Bed Build #1: Glueing up and milling the legs
Hello friends, I invite you to join me on my newest adventure. I’m building some bunk beds for the kids. I contemplating buying them but after going to pottery barn kids and seeing pine bunk beds for...
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Bunk Bed Build #2: Cutting the Legs, Prep Rails, Cut Mortices
Wow I got a lot done yesterday. My wife and I also painted are bedroom in between woodworking sesions. She did the lower part of the walls, when she was done I’d go in and paint the top. I’m sore...
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Bunk Bed Build #3: Hand Cut Tenons for the Head/Foot Boards
Ok, here are a couple of more evenings of progress behind me. I need to cut 16 tenons total to fit the head board and foot boards on the two beds. This part of the project is going a little slower than...
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Bunk Bed Build #4: Plowing Grooves in the Rails and Posts
Hello again folks, the next step was to plow some groves in the stretchers and posts of the head board. The old Stanley #45 was the weapon of choice for this stage of the project which is a lot of fun...
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Bunk Bed Build #5: Panels, Long Rails, and Mounting Brackets
Hello again folks. Here is the update on my project. I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking. I experiment with new circ saw method. I just scored the first line and then eyeballed the second...
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Bunk Bed Build #6: Mortising Rail Brackets & Plowing Deco Grooves
Here is a little more progress on my build Installing the brackets on the bed posts: First I lay out the location of the Mortise with a mortising gauge. I need to get something better than this crappy...
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Bunk Bed Build #7: Panel Prep and Glue Up
Hello again friends and thanks for following. In this installment I prep each of the panels (Head bard and Food Board) for glue up. I’ve done a lot of work since my last blog but progress has been a...
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Bunk Bed Build #8: Finishing, Support Slats, and Twin Bed Assembly
Hello again all, I’m almost done with the bunk beds, At this point they are two twin beds. Here is the stain I used which worked out pretty well. I used Dark Walnut Transtint dye mixed with DNA. I used...
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Bunk Bed Build #9: The Finale: Railings, Ladder and Stacking
Hello again folks, this blog aint done yet, I still have to finish the railings and ladders and make this thing a bunk bed. I started a new job recently so I’ve been very busy, as a result, shop time...
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Loose Tenon Jig
I recently made a stone top table with Mortise and Tenon Joinery. I was thinking of making more of these tables, also ~3×3” legs with 1.5” thick aprons would make some pretty sweet work tables out of...
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Reshaping a Stanley Sweetheart #62 Tote
The other day I was working from home, I was bummed out because I had been to busy to do much woodworking lately, so I said “Hey, standing desks are supposed to be good for your, and my “joinery bench”...
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