Turning Some Stuff

I finally took a little time to finish up the box elder projects i had started, and had to turn an end grain cookie from the Jefferson poplar tree. All of these pieces had gotten small checks. As well, the big bowl had dried out and split almost in half so I sawed [...]

Woodworking in America Conference

Rick, a member of our forum and woodworking community shared with us his recent participation at Woodworking in America’s recent conference. Check out the recap on our forum. It’s a good read.

Gabbing with Marc and Tilt Top Table

Did my interview with Marc (Wood whisperer)…probably talked too much , it went longer than expected…feel sure it was me, it had been a long day, but I enjoyed it…hope the others did.
Here are some Photos of the tiger maple tilt top we did in the router DVD, and i did a pedestal for it [...]

Blind Woodworking

Last night I had the honor of speaking  via phone with an amazing group of folks…blind woodworkers, and I have had the occasion to view their work, it is mind boggling .
  I can not even begin to imagine how they accomplish what they do, but rest assured they do, they have talking tape measures, [...]

Still writing and taking photos….dovetails

Been working hard on this photo series on hand cut dovetails, today I show the “power cheats”,   I know,  but they sure work.  The object is to get the hand-cut look.  Being able to whip through them is pretty nice. using a table saw or router to cut the pins is pretty sweet… but then [...]

News Letter Day

Well, today I am writing the newsletter and tomorrow as well so we will catch up on blog stuff later in the week. The newsletter will have a focus on hand cut dove tails as well as a lot of other subjects. This is in response to all of the emails about hand [...]

Small dove tails and pulling plants

I basically took the weekend off, needed a break, started pulling plants in the garden, cleaned out the corn, in the freezers, pulled about 2/3 of the squash and Zucchini, as well all the beets are done, cabbage, peppers, broccoli, and pulled 15 tomato plants, the freezers are loaded , and the cupboards are full [...]

Pedestals Continued

The more I studied the feet I had made, the more I disliked them. They had too much sweep downward at the knee and extended too far from the pedestal. I had made them from the sewing stand but I just wasn’t satisfied with the extended foot and the large base. I [...]

Turning Pedestals

**Note:  for reasons unknown, the blog photos don’t seem to be loading for us as we’re looking at the published version, but when you click on any of the “spaces”, the photo does load.  We don’t know if this is a “Crystal” issue or a “wordpress” issue, but there are 7 photos attached to the [...]

Freud Premier Fusion Saw blade

Well  I needed a new tablesaw blade, ( maybe want is a better word) so decided to give the new Fusion blade a whirl, I have always like freud products and especially their blades,  believe me when I tell you I have about every make and model blade around, I mean after all these years [...]