I am a hobbyist woodworker, looking to sharpen my skills (and my planes) and have some fun along the way.
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[Medal Chest] Router Inlay
*Note to my readers—this is the secret project I’ve mentioned a few times. It has consumed my shop time since February. That’s why it’s been so slow on the blog for the last few months. Now that it has been … Continue reading
[Medal Chest] Fitting it all together…
*Note to my readers—this is the secret project I’ve mentioned a few times. It has consumed my shop time since February. That’s why it’s been so slow on the blog for the last few months. Now that it has been … Continue reading
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Tagged chisels, dovetails, dry fit, hand plane, mallet, maple, sharpening, walnut
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[Medal Chest] More dovetails!
*Note to my readers—this is the secret project I’ve mentioned a few times. It has consumed my shop time since February. That’s why it’s been so slow on the blog for the last few months. Now that it has been … Continue reading
[Medal Chest] First dovetails…
*Note to my readers—this is the secret project I’ve mentioned a few times. It has consumed my shop time since February. That’s why it’s been so slow on the blog for the last few months. Now that it has been … Continue reading
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Tagged backsaw, chisels, coping saw, dovetail, hand plane, leg vise, mallet, maple, Saw skills, walnut
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Shoptime and dovetails…
After what seemed to me (someone who’s lived in a state where winter was 3 months–Jan, Feb, March—Florida, where there is no winter and Texas where winter lasts from Jan to Feb) an interminal winter, the garage finally warmed up to 40* … Continue reading
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Tagged basswood, dovetail, Japanese saw, leg vise, mallet
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Light plates: the carving.
More progress on Jim’s light plates has occurred lately. Here’s the update: I took the piece of siding that he gave me and measured out where the crests and valleys were on the back of the wood and went to … Continue reading
Kroktskaft….or, how Mjolnir died.
Ah, it’s good to be back in the shop. Took a break there for a while to go on a trip to the Bahamas with the family. We had a blast but the only woodworking I did was reading about … Continue reading
Mjolnir (part 3) or, A Lesson in Sticking With the Plan
As the title says, things didn’t go exactly as planned with the hammer the past couple days. I tried my best but it just didn’t work out as I imagined. Here’s what happened. Best pull up a chair and get some popcorn. It started … Continue reading
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Tagged chisels, clamps, coping saw, drilling, dry fit, glue up, hammer, hickory, mallet, Mjolnir, Oops, pilot holes, rubber mallet
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Mjolnir (part 2)
After finishing up the leg vise, I had a little bit of time leftover and decided to get cracking on Mjolnir (yeah, it thinks a lot of itself!). I finalized the design and drew it on the handle. It has … Continue reading
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Tagged coping saw, hickory, laminated, mallet, Mjolnir
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Mjolnir (part 1)
At long last I have begun construction of my first mallet! I’ve been seeing all these great pounders, thumpers, whackers, and smackers that everyone has been displaying on the internet and on TV shows and finally could take no more of the bounce-back prone … Continue reading
