In and Around the Woodshop

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CD’s Now Available

a boy called fish

I had a few inquiries about when and where you can get ‘a boy called fish’ in CD format. Good news is they’re finally in and if you’d like to order a copy then you can do so here. Just click the paypal button below…

One more for the Road

by Lucas Stein

Hi Tom,
I thought I should share with you my toolbox that I made based on reading your book. Although my joinery skills need some work, I learned a lot and had a blast making it (especially using dowels). Black walnut is definitely my favorite type of wood, the colors and grain patterns are simply divine.

the de-construction stages

update

a quick update -
it was a productive weekend of fitting drawers and finalizing door hardware options..
two more drawers to make today- then tomorrow it’ll be the doors.
a few interesting design options developed – the best part of all of this right?

The Event

Lie Nielsen, ~ Canadian Style ~

My first Lie Nielsen Hand Tool Event-
what can I say?
in one word-
fabulous.
If you’ve never been then you should really try to make it out to one- it was a great two days

Side Rabbet Plane(s)

From Lie Nielsen Tool works

a week of ‘processing lumber’
3 days of joining and panel work,
2 days of dovetails…

Hand tools may or may not save you any time in the woodshop…
but they may just save your soul.

A Blast from the Past

Lee Valley Tools Newsletter

The new newsletter from Lee Valley Tools is now available and for me it was a nice surprise… The trestle table you may remember seeing buried under the heavy oak timbers while I worked my way through the exterior heritage door project last year or…

House Cleaning

Tuesday, March 23/2010

Just a bit of house keeping I wanted to take care of… especially for readers who never journey past the first page- a little bit of Spring cleaning perhaps? First off is in the Readers Gallery We have a new project from Chris Paluch in…

FRame to FRame

out like a lion

in like a lion and out like a lamb ? we had some light snow the other day- 1st day of spring my arse! dimensioned the stock for the side table- ripping, cross cutting and resawing by hand- lots and lots of wood shavings but…

A few of the Curly Details

A Laminated Tale.

I had some comments about the laminated top and thought I’d post some more pics of the process. The strips started a little better than 1 1/4″ square; I laminated them up in smaller ‘batches’ ending up with four larger pieces between 6″ and 8″…

I think I can- I think I can…

Finishing off the table top

Curly maple table top- when I designed this piece I originally thought about using three large maple planks, flat sawn and about a days work to finish. Quick n’ easy with a pleasant enough look it would only be three boards to work after all….