Back At It (Roubo)
After a hiatus Michele and I are back at the Roubo grindstone. We are now looking forward to two or three or four years of near-constant work. Notwithstanding any reservations, we are determined to...
View ArticleWorkbench Wednesday: A Slab for Tim
When my friend Sam, a restoration carpenter, bought a portable sawmill he volunteered to practice on the walnut logs from the tree my pal Bob and I felled a few years ago (as a lifelong...
View ArticleTwisted
For the past week I’ve been undertaking a deep clean/archaeology of the barn required by the upcoming Historic Finishing workshop. Given that I’ve only had one workshop in the classroom in the past...
View ArticleWebmeister Tim’s Workbench – Day 1
I first met Webmeister Tim during my research for the H.O. Studley tool cabinet book, probably around 2012 or 2013. I got an email from a fellow who said, “Hey, I think I’ve got a vise like the ones...
View ArticleWorkbench Wednesday – Tim’s Walnut Bench Day 2
[Sorry, I forgot to post this yesterday — DCW] With the overnight gluing of the leg and stretcher elements successful, we undertook their preparation for the joint cutting to come. My little 4″ Makita...
View ArticleWorkbench Wednesday – Tim’s Walnut Bench Part 2
There’s actually a bit of overflow from Day 1 but this is mostly about Day 2 activities. The regions of epoxy/sawdust fills had hardened, and then flattened with a variety of tools like Surform,...
View ArticleWorkbench Wednesday – Tim’s Walnut Bench 3
Chopping mortises and fitting tenons. I am fairly confident that had Roubo’s contemporaries owned Shinto rasps, they would’ve used them That’s my story and I am sticking to it. That is all we did, all...
View ArticleFeatured and Hacked
During Handworks 2023 I was able to chat with Youtoobers Rex Krueger and James Wright about their channels (I am a subscriber to both and you should too). They were very encouraging about my ideas for...
View ArticleWorkbench Wednesday – Tim’s Walnut Bench Finale
Our plan from the beginning of Tim’s bench-building visit was to fabricate what was essentially a kit, since everything had to fit as individual pieces into his compact station wagon for the trip home....
View ArticleThe Starting Point
While undertaking some recent reorganization of my basement workshop in Elderbarndottir’s former house (she got married in November and moved to her husband’s house) I came across this nostalgic and...
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