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The Gift of Time: 8 Ways to Use Extra Time in the Shop
Time is the greatest of gifts. None of us knows how much of it we will have over our lifetime, and once it’s gone we can never get it back. That’s why I’m not much bothered by the prospect of … Continue reading
Posted in Kids, Musings, sharpening, skills, storage, teaching
Tagged cleaning, coronavirus, covid-19, deferred maintenance, maintenance, pandemic, quarantine, teach, teaching, teaching woodworking, time
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Why I Don’t Sign My Spoons
A lot of spoon carvers put their name, initials, or a maker’s mark on each spoon they make. I don’t. Here’s why. First, signing each piece would add time to the production process without adding monetary value. I know that … Continue reading
Posted in Carving, Wood and Woodwork, Woodenware
Tagged business, customer, economize, future generations, initials, logo, logos, maker's mark, production time, signature, value
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Cedar Cigar Box
When I was a kid, a cigar box was something you made other things out of, not something you made. But now I’ve gone and made a cigar box–by request. Let’s hope this cigar box doesn’t meet the fate of … Continue reading
Posted in Boxes, Wood and Woodwork
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The Card Scraper Wallet
Many woodworkers agree that the secret weapon of smoothness is the card scraper. But there are many different opinions on the best way to store a set of card scrapers. (If you’re unfamiliar with this tool, it looks too simple … Continue reading
Posted in Sewing, storage, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged card scraper, card scraper storage, card scrapers, scraper, scrapers, scraping
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Flattening Your Oilstone Is Really Easy
While sharpening some blades this afternoon, I finally got sick enough of my dished oilstone to actually do something about it. I’ve had this double-sided (soft/hard) Arkansas stone for probably 5-10 years and have never flattened it. The soft side … Continue reading
Posted in sharpening, Tutorials, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged Arkansas stone, flat, flatten, flatten stone, flattening, Klingspor, oil stone, oilstone, sandpaper
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Folding Outfeed Table for My Bandsaw
I don’t enjoy working with powered machines nearly as much as I enjoy working with hand tools, but I do rely a lot on my bandsaw for cutting down big pieces of wood into smaller pieces. My main bandsaw is … Continue reading
Posted in power tools, Tutorials, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged band saw, bandsaw, bandsaw table, outfeed, outfeed support, outfeed table, steel city
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Want to Carve Spoons? Use a Template
On a spoon-carving forum I read, the question of templates comes up frequently. A lot of spoon carvers say they “just wing it,” or as others put it, “just see what the wood wants to be.” Now, there’s no question … Continue reading
Posted in Carving, handicraft, Musings, skills, Wood and Woodwork, Woodenware
Tagged freedom, pencil, spoon carving, spoon template, succeed, success, template, templates, winging it, wooden spoon, wooden spoon template, work
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Why Make Your Own Drawer Pulls?
I had finally assembled this dovetailed, built-in shoe cabinet for my kids shoes, and it was time to consider the hardware. (This post is not about building the shoe cabinet, though I give a few construction details at the end. … Continue reading
Posted in skills, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged dovetailed drawer, drawer hardware, drawer knob, drawer knobs, drawer pull, drawer pulls, hardware, money, pulls, shoe cabinet, time
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One Last Bedstead
When my youngest child–my only son, R.–finally outgrew our old toddler bed (which I had originally built for his older sister, and which had then been passed down through the siblings to him, and which I eventually gave away to … Continue reading
Posted in Build-Alongs, Kids, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged bed frame, bedstead, handtools, headboard, lapped dovetail, mortise and tenon, shiplap, wooden bed frame
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A Beginning Woodworker’s Toolkit
If you want to begin doing woodworking with hand tools, it’s hard to know where to begin. There are so many woodworking tools on the market. A beginner’s tool kit need not be large, and you can do good work … Continue reading
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Tagged basic hand tools, basic woodworking tools, begin woodworking, beginners hand tools, beginning woodworker, beginning woodworking tools, essential hand tools, essential woodworking tools, handtool, handtools, start woodworking, start working wood, starting woodworking, woodwork tools, woodworking hand tools, woodworking tools
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