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Today Conrad is going to show you how I flattened my workbench.

Its important to have a flat work bench when you’re making furniture for two reasons, first because it acts as a reference surface for you to determine how flat your furniture parts are, and two you need a solid clamping surface that will [...]

My dad picked up a nice 6 inch bench grinder at a yard sale for me last year, thanks Dad!
Grinders, of all kinds, are deceptively dangerous tools in the shop. The wheels spin at high RPMs and they can grab and throw the work at you. If the work happens to be a [...]

I’m finishing up the shaker table that I started last year. It’s not so much that it takes me a year to complete a project as it got too cold to work in the garage after I finished the legs, and then I got distracted by blacksmithing projects until late spring.
So this summer [...]

Some people have been asking questions about how I fit all the hobbies into my extremely tiny house in our residential neighborhood.
Well, the hobbies only take up a 2 car garage, and is lot more low-tech than most people might imagine. To give you an idea of just how low tech it all is [...]

Stuart King is a woodturner and contributor to Woodturning magazine. On his webpage he has several fascinating articles about the history of turning. In particular his details about two of the last bodgers in England.

Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the world, and conducts a great deal of archaeological research into the practices and methods of colonial American work and craftmanship. They have large functioning blacksmithing and woodworking shops that even act as part of the daily life of Williamsurg. For example: If the [...]

This is awesome. This guy built a row of built in shelves and one of the units opens to reveal a secret room!
Secret Room Bookcase

Last week I showed you an easy way to make a four sided tapered leg on your bandsaw. This week we’ll take that leg and make it an elegant and attractive eight-sided taper with a stopped shoulder detail.
Step 1: Cut the Shoulders

On each corner at the start of the taper mark in 3/8″ and [...]

Derek Andrews at Seafoam Woodturning has posted a links to woodturning videos on YouTube
Seriously, this is why I love the internet.

I recently needed to cut some legs with a taper on each side. This is a little trickier than it sounds because after you’ve cut off two faces you run out of flat edges to reference against a face.
After doing some reading I came up with an easy way of doing this at the [...]