Dining Room?
“Hey Hon- what’s for diner ?”
‘Plywood sandwiches’ crosses my mind but my throat doesn’t summon the words. It’s a surreal feeling working through the big build these past two weeks- from paper to plywood…
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In and Around the Woodshop
Sharpening a Card Scraper
Jigs are your friends
In my last post I showed you how I apply a solid wood edge treatment to plywood panels. This is something I don’t do very much of and in a perfect world I’d be using solid materials in every project but sometimes design can dictate the materials needed and…
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Working (ply) Wood
Solid Wood edging
Working with plywood is an altogether different animal than with solid wood. Given the choice, I’d prefer solid wood but sometimes solid wood isn’t the best option. When I worked in the Set Design Industry we worked with plywood almost exclusively- these past few years however, in my…
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New Projects on the Rise
Cedar, cherry and curly maple
The wood shop has been busy these past few weeks with magazine articles and private wood working classes to new projects, designs and commissions on the rise.
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Turning Wood
By Mike Morrison
Of all the skills associated with woodworking and furniture making, there is an argument to be made that woodturning is among the most intuitive and, many would say, the most immediately satisfying
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CME Handworks Inc
Human Power
I’m going to make an assumption here- if you read my blog then you’re probably into hand tools and if you’re into hand tools then you’re probably like me and spend some time browsing the Internet looking for things like vintage planes and hand drills,…
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Spring Cleaning
Work Bench Re-Surfacing
After a long winter of work shop projects and now coming to the end of a wet Spring here in Southern Ontario it’s time to do a little ‘spring cleaning’ around the wood shop. I’ve been putting this off for far too long and before…
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More on Shop Made Tools
From the Unplugged Woodshop
In my last post I featured the new Large Spokeshave from Veritas tools here in Canada. The fact that I had an idea for a tool very similar in design to this makes me pleased that a company like Veritas is now manufacturing it. It’s…
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From Tool to Toolbox
New Tool from Veritas
Have you ever been working on a project and wished you had a certain tool to make your job easier or more efficient? More specifically a tool you already know does not yet exist? The ‘inventor’ side of most wood workers I know have this…
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A Note on Chisels
Questions and Answers
I got a letter today from a fellow wood worker asking my thoughts on Chisels. Thought I’d share my long-winded reply with you. Tom, Learning more every day. Question. I need a quality set of bevel chisels that will be passed down to grand…
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