it’s been pretty busy around the wood shop and i’m getting closer and closer to some new projects i’m looking forward to sharing with everyone -
something soon i hope !
from saw benches to wood classes, magazine articles and new CD promotion followed with another wave of wood classes and magazine articles and new…
My six year old son Nelson and I completed his project yesterday after my wood class with Rob- ( thanks again for the Cinnamon – Pear preserve !! ) Nelson has been working on ‘ wood-E’ for the past while and finally decided to call…
38 days of winter to go ?
c’mon, that’s nothing.
we’ve got it licked- spring’ll be here before you know it…
just-a-saunterin’ back through the inner city slumber … sure i get it,
some mornings feel like those halloween eyes and cracker jacks winkin’~
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…
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.
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?
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
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.
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…
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…
