Hey everyone, it has been awhile since my last post so I thought I would share my latest. I have a 4 yr old young boy and he has been obsessed with airplanes lately. I made some shelving out in the garage and had some left over 3/4 inch and 1/4 inch plywood, so I decided to use the scrap and have some fun. What was not fun was the fact that my scroll saw, lathe, table saw, and power sanders are all in storage. This was done with small peices of sand paper, a skill-saw, hand saw, and a wood shaping file, and a drill. What I came up with was a Tri-wing airplane. Kind of fun, a pain to paint and sand due to the plywood! Thanks for checking it out!

So a few months back I bought a set of chisels by Irwin that were chrome vanadium and found they didn’t hold an edge very well…Since then I have been watching ebay for a set or partial set of older chisels with decent steel. Well, I got two lots of chisels and in them had a nearly full set of Witherby Warranted chisels (not all of them are the same style, but they will work for what I am doing with them). When I first opened the packages, they were all in pretty rough shape. Handles are made out of oak with copper ferrules. Steel was derusted with phosphoric acid then wire brushed down to bare steel then cold blued for rust prevention. Wood is covered with 3 coats of tung oil. All glued together with plenty of epoxy! Thanks for looking.

So I realize that Chisel Handles aren’t that exciting…nor are they a big project, but I thought I would post this for people to review…I picked up a bunch of old chisels (this one is a Witherby) and they all need handles. I AM LOOKING FOR TIPS AND STYLES HOW TO DO IT BETTER…caps for those that are just skimming the content here:) The handle is oak with a copper ferrule on it. Thanks for looking!

Well I made a cutting board a bit ago and had a bunch of scraps sitting around.  The wife wanted a lazy susan and I hadn’t turned anything on the but replacement knobs for old planes (I work with a shopsmith not a wood lathe).  Here is the result.  The wood is white oak, red oak, purpleheart, with a sliver of bloodwood on each side.  15 inch diameter total…all coated with 3 coats of the General’s salad bowl finish.  Thanks for looking!

I watched the wood whisperer was inspired to do an end grain cutting board of my own.  Unfortunately I didn’t have big enough lumber to do his version…nor did I have purpleheart.  This is made out of 5/4 maple and 3/4 walnut.  Final dimensions was 15 X 14X 5/4 .  Finished with the General’s Salad Bowl Finish.  Thanks for looking!

Hey all, thought I would share my adventures in hand planes.  I just started woodworking and thought I needed a set.  I went to a few garage sales and picked up a #4 and two #5’s.  Shown is the best #5 and the #4.  I derusted with phosphoric acid on the #4…and due to the gray color aftewards I decided to cold blue it…it looks great, just not traditional.  The #5 I used electrolysis and left the metal natural.  All of the handles were either missing or cracked to the point of trash so I made new handles out of walnut and bloodwood (knobs are from scrap walnut, totes are both woods laminated like plywood to keep it from splitting).  Not only my first rehab projects, but my first turning project (knobs) and carving (totes).  I have put 3 coats of tung oil on the handles. Enjoy, if anyone has any suggestions on em, please let me hear it!

This is my first real project. I glued it up last night and viola…here it is. My son needed an upgrade from his crib (he is turning two here soon) so I made him a toddler bed. A couple of months ago I bought the book Woodworking Basics by Peter Korn and this project was based around me practicing a lot of mortises and tenon’s by hand! The wood is all poplar except for the platform my slats sit on (inside the rails) which is oak. Stained with an IKEA stain :( the wife wanted it to match a dresser she bought…and the finish is several coats of oil pased poly. Unfortunately I didn’t have the tools available to do bed bolts so it cannot be dissasembled unless you break it or saw it!