| This blog is written by NedB | 23 entries so far |
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Projects #3: Kitchen Island
Buddy of mine gave me a chunk of bowling alley earlier this year. I was going to make Something o...
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Projects #2: New Bed assembly complete
My wife updated our middle son’s bed from a twin on a ‘loft’ to a double be...
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Projects #1: Latest effort -Building a new bed
One of the main projects which I’ve done for literally everyone in my house, is to build th...
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Tool thoughts #18: New fangled Bench almost complete
Well the past two weeks the shop has actually warmed up to a point where I can be out there witho...
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Tool thoughts #17: New Pen Mills & I'm a glutton for Pen-ishment... a different swap underway
I’m a member over on the IAP forums, and they recently had a group buy which I took advanta...
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Woodworking with my Kids
First in what I’m certain will be an infrequent series about exploits with my kids I ha...
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Tool thoughts #16: New fangled bench part II
I’ve got most of the dimensional lumber cut to length now, as well as the pipes on hand, an...
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Tool thoughts #15: Drywall storage rack
I picked up several sheets of drywall, plus some cement board and even some pegboard in the past ...
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Tool thoughts #14: New fangled Bench
Add me to the list of fans of the Jim White Newfangled workbench. I stopped at my local lumber ya...
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They Honey-Do List #1: A sewing table
My family recentlly suffered a loss, my Mother in-law passed away after several years of gradual ...
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Tool thoughts #13: Wolvie Clone in progress
With my shop mostly completed, I have turned towards getting my tools in order, including setting...
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Tool thoughts #12: Lights, camera Sawdust!
I haven’t been out in the shop much the past couple of weeks, short of turning a couple of ...
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Tool thoughts #11: Look what followed me home today
pardon the crappy cell phone photo, my work camera was in the house, and I just wanted the proof ...
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Tool thoughts #10: All Moved in... now on to the sorting phase...
After nearly two and a half years in storage, I finally moved all of my stuff into the shop toni...
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Tool thoughts #9: One more load in the shop...
My youngest son and I spent the day together, and we loaded up the remainder of the short stock, ...
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Tool thoughts #8: Storage cabinet for the shop
Now I’m all for building my own cabinetry, but this one will be very tough to beat. ItR...
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Tool thoughts #7: Lumber Rack
Looted my storage unit today. I had this pile of wood in there… plus just a bit more ‘...
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Tool thoughts #6: Organizing continues
Picture your shop… now picture it packed into a storage unit for 2 years… As IR...
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Tool thoughts #5: First turning on my lathe
I glued a sacrificial block onto a chunk of Mahagony I found in my storage unit the day before ye...
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Tool thoughts #4: Lights, Camera, Bench!
Now that my shop is dried in, I’m making a conscious effort to make progress every day to g...
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Tool thoughts #3: Pondering the next Tool Purchase
I’m taking a few minutes during my lunch hour to think about my next tool purchase. I ha...
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Tool thoughts #2: Doors!
Howdy folks, got a little more progress on the shop this weekend. It’s been a long projec...
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Tool thoughts #1: The Beginning
For all of my new (at this point in time anyway) LJ friends, I thought I would take a couple of m...

















