After taking a couple of days off from writing, I find it is time to get back to it. I was feeling a bit poorly this past weekend and I didn’t accomplish a great deal. I don’t get sick often, and I can’t even say if this was som...
I make some benches to be used with our kitchen table.A fun project that is not all that difficult. The benches turned out very sturdy and look great! Please watch and comment. Would love to hear what you all think. Thank you!
http://youtu.be/n...
So, it is time for my boys to get their own room. They are getting too big for their cribs, and I need to finish that spare bedroom for them so they can have their own space. We have a small cape cod home, originally 4 bedrooms when we moved...
To those of you who are too closely following my blerg , you can see substantial progress in mymodifications so far to this $ 15 find from CL . Did some cutting and rearrangement as you cansee . Going to try this walnut top on it . Then I wil...
robcastle made mention of my blog and did some polishing on his Paper Towel Holder.I mentioned I’ve polished rough sawn material.I couldn’t find any photos, so out to the shop…I grabbed a piece of curly maple left over from a cus...
I finally managed to find the plan I have been looking for, so a new build from me will be featured soon, but to give you a heads up on what is coming, the Shop Notes Box Joint Jig. I finally found out what issue it is in…
Vol 11, Issue #...
Yes. Well. I’m going to have to relent and show you the plan. I looked at all the progress pictures and whilst I understand where this is going, no-one else will. Here it is
It’s all in millimetres ( like most of the world I us...
After finally starting to feel like my tiny one car garage is a shop I’ve started working on improving the shop. The used Ridgid 4510 table saw I have didn’t come with the riving knife, apparently the previous owner tossed it with the...
This entry will serve as the documentation for the condition of the workbench as I received it.
Here she is in the shop – with obligatory plane on top.
Rear:
Condition – the bad:
There are few things that will need ...
I don’t have a long bench. I have two short benches owing to going from a space rich environment allowing two 7 ft benches to a space sparse environment, not allowing.
Gave one away, cut the other in half (some reconstruction involved), ...
Last Friday was the fateful day that my stomach began to churn – it was letting me know that it and the beef and bean burrito I had for lunch were having a strong disagreement. So off I go. Why am I telling you about my serendipitous bowel m...
anyone have an idea on how to train your shop to be like this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPL3kJPsVdA&list=UU3_VCOJMaivgcGqPCTePLBA&feature=share&app=desktop
I ask for your comments and suggestions about a opportunity (problem) with a couple similar bowls. Both made from walnut and maple. One about 11 1/2” other 13”. History—have been doing segmented bowls for just over a year with th...
You may have seen a Project Paper Towel Holder I made for No 4 Son Toby and his Partner Ashlee.Well after reading all the great comments I trolled through the website to catch up on all the great posts I may have missed.
Well I found a post by ...
Thought I’d ask if there might be a technical type LJ who may have repair information for an older C type 18 inch scroll saw.
I have parts and operator manuals for the type 1 and type 2 saws. Looked on net via Google but maybe no such cr...
I have been wanting for such a long while to do some truly higher end pens, made with some higher quality kits. I have neglected doing so purely for financial reasons. These kits are not cheap, and there is no guarantee I’ll be able to s...
Sometimes I just want to make something. I get the woodworking bug so bad I just gotta do something and it doesn’t matter what.
Am I alone in this?
Luckily, I’ve been able to do a few woodworking things lately. I made lumber ra...
Let me start by saying that I was having a really good day. I had to replace my pickup and winch for hauling logs. My old pickup and winch however were undersized for what I was doing. I stumbled on to this pickup
It’s ugly but the e...
I’ve been back to doing a lot of pens at once lately. This will be the first of two posts just showing a lot of what I’ve been up to. I am going to separate the ones in this post according to style..
Tec-PensThis is a bolt action te...
After dry fitting the case together, I start making the frame and panel solid maple back. All the measurements are taken directly off the case.
http://youtu.be/RqQ4jotRhic
Picked up a fun, folding-duet-chair thingy yesterday at auction that had a bum leg. Supposed to look like this
But one was this instead
Some cuts with the gent’s dovetail saw (in creative clamping get-up) squared things up.
...
I know it’s been a while since I’ve added a post to this blog but between moving into the new house (and shop), holidays, work, etc. I just haven’t had a ton of shop time. I actually put off working on the new shop until after the first of the ye...
Well, I cleaned out the local thrifts shops supply of redwood drift wood.
I am surprised they lasted as long as they did but I am not complaining as this has been a real treasure trove for me. Out of one large root section I picked up a few mo...
I have a 1.75hp PCS Sawstop. I considered the 3hp version initially, but then balked at the extra cost and reasoned that 1.75hp would be more than enough. Fast forward two years and most of my woodworking involves thick 2” slabs…even w...
Well as my journey of processing wood for use in turning continues. I have been looking for a way to cut my own stuff using the bandsaw I have. it mostly works well enough but is not great at resawing. I came across Izzy Swan great channel on YouT...
Thanks for all the warm replies!Nice to know I’m such a big part of the community and not just wasting my time…
NOT!
313 VIEWS AND NOT ONE OF YOU COULD SAY ANYTHING?
NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE LEAVING ….
It is with a heavy heart that I write this today. My mother had been in the hospital facing back surgery today. I was planning on visiting her yesterday…
Got home from work on Friday morning and found out that she had passed away in the n...
Have you ever wished to scale something up or down, either from plans or from actual objects? Then, you looked around the shop only to realize you don’t have any convenient tool other than measuring with rulers and then trying to convert using som...
This is a real-time blog, that is I am blogging as I am working on the project. As it is my own design I respectfully request that anyone wishing to copy it waits until I have posted the finished project.
I am not showing the pattern, up front,...
I make some benches to be used with our kitchen table.A fun project that is not all that difficult. The benches turned out very sturdy and look great! Please watch and comment. Would love to hear what you all think. Thank you!
http://youtu.be/n...
Sometimes I just want to make something. I get the woodworking bug so bad I just gotta do something and it doesn’t matter what.
Am I alone in this?
Luckily, I’ve been able to do a few woodworking things lately. I made lumber ra...
After dry fitting the case together, I start making the frame and panel solid maple back. All the measurements are taken directly off the case.
http://youtu.be/RqQ4jotRhic
We built a triple bunk bed from aspen logs. The grandkids absolutely love it. The finished project is in the video. The last pictures are of a coat rack I made with the left over log.
You can go here for the video: http://youtu.be/-GjQ0wCP588
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This one is pretty self explanatory. A hold down jig that can be used for countless items. Joint one edge of pallet wood. Hold down hard to hold items to make angled cuts. Or anything else you can think of. There is a 3” x 3” grid of h...
For the first project of 2014 on JordsWoodShop we will be making a simple yet beautiful dining room table with matching bench seats.
In this video we make a solid base for our massive table top.
Email your project photos to: “viewersco...
Hello fellow woodworkers,
I love quilted maple and nothing is more fun than putting some finish on it….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaIzinaIhDs
Thanks for watching
Step 1- find a giant elm
FOUND ONE!
I believe it to be a piece of this one. I’m working on confirming it.
http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=ed5f1cca-2ff3-4a5c-a572-e59f074d0bca&sponsor
step 2 – find a giant ...
Weekly Woodworking Wrap-up Review is a video I release every Friday morning where we talk the the latest news and videos in the woodworking world. I also answer viewer questions and discuss what’s going on in my workshop. You can watch the latest ...
This was a simple project using left over end grain butcher block from a previous project! For this interested in viewing the build, check it out here: http://youtu.be/S38ByU6iZys
Thank you and Enjoy!!!
This project is coming along! In this video, I start making the cabinet from hard maple from the base up. All the joinery for the cabinet is held together with dominos. I then route the back of the cabinet to accept the solid maple panel back.
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I needed a new table saw sled for a different saw i’m using. I’m currently finishing a miter saw cut station I built & needed a sled to make small cuts. After having made a few others I notice how wooden sleds react to moisture con...
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