Like most families, we didn’t get out much last week. People are keeping to themselves as much as possible, which I guess is the right thing to do for now. But, these are strange days and everyone is handling it the best that they can. Our schools were closed last Monday, and they’ll stay closed …
My youngest kid has a complete lack of trust in the Sandman. I can’t say I blame him. I mean, the guy glues your eyes shut while you sleep. Overall, he’s cool with the Tooth Fairy though. So after a trip to the dentist resulted in the pulling of a loose tooth, he needed a …
Somethings you just can’t say no to. When your 5 year old brings you a board and says “You need a sign that says Dad’s Shop, let’s make one”, you make a sign. I taped over the board, and handed him the pencil. With a little spelling advice, we got the lettering done in his …
Mistakes happen, this isn’t even my worst one of the day. I went to make a handle for one of the little marking knives I made the other day. I turned the handle, drilled a hole for the tang, and fitted a piece of copper tubing for a ferrule. After a little sanding and a …
Blacksmithing makes great YouTube videos. Flames, red-hot metal, sparks flying, and all the beating and banging give visuals that I’m not sure any other craft can compete with. I’ve mentioned before, I wanted to give it a try. Today, I pulled out my little forge and anvil… I know it doesn’t look like much, but …
I try to make it by a local salvage/antique store once or twice a month. They always have a little bit of everything, including a few old tools. I had a couple of minutes when I was in the area today, so I dropped in to see what they had. The first thing I found …
Sometimes things come up and we have to walk away from a project and plan on coming back to it on another day. Two weeks ago, I wrote about stripping and sanding the top of our kitchen table. The next day, I got a little work done staining and sealing the top. Since then, with …
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 …
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 …