I’ve given this a couple of tries, so I figured I’d report on it. My wife gave me a small starter CNC router for Christmas. I wanted to try it out and see if it was something I would want to expand on. With something new like this, I won’t get a whole lot out …
Month: February 2020
So just to prove I have power tools in my shop, here’s a picture of a quick project from tonight sitting on my Grizzly bandsaw. Honestly, I had a little time after everyone else went to bed, and worked on something that most certainly was not anything greenwood related. After a hour and a half, …
A few days ago, I closed out my post on greenwoodworking with a spoon blank I roughed out of a crook from a Bradford Pear tree. I finished that spoon this weekend as I was waiting on the finish to dry on another project. I thought I was done a couple of days earlier, but …
One constant across every workshop, no matter the craft, is the workbench. Some are metal, some are wood, some are a mix of materials, but every shop has one. Before I built my shop, I kept my tools in a little hot water heater closet off of our garage. I had room for a small …
One of the projects on my current list is to refinish our kitchen table top. When we moved into this house six years ago, we put this table in our attic for storage. We recently brought it down to use, and found the damage from previous use was worse than we remembered. The attic environment …
My whole family takes a trip to the beach every summer. I greatly enjoy the time with my loved ones, the good food, and the chance to recharge and relax. I’m not one to just sit on the sand and watch the waves, however. A few years ago, I grabbed a few small of chunks …