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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...

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Workbench 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...

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Twisted

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...

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Webmeister 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...

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Workbench 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...

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Workbench 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,...

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Workbench 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...

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Featured 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...

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Workbench 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....

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The 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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