This past weekend I had the opportunity to do a tour of Fine Woodworking up in Connecticut.  While I was there Dyami of Penultimate Workshop and I spent some time talking about the future of Modern Woodworkers...

  A few months ago the founding administrators of the Modern Woodworkers Association were given the opportunity to review the new Rough Cut book from Taunton. It’s a companion to the first season...

This week is the first annual Get Woodworking Week set up by my good friend Tom Iovino of Tomsworkbench.com.  Often we talk about traditions and how we would like to have them carried on and this week...

    It has been a few weeks since I have made much progress on the Roubo bench as I ran low on 8/4″ boards for the legs and didn’t want to start on just part of the legs.  The local...

Last weekend while up in North Carolina visiting family, my dad gave me one of his old hand saws.  I can remember this saw being around all of my life.  Dad thinks that it is a Sandvik and is not sure...

I am very pleased with the progress I have made this weekend on the Roubo bench.  Right after I posted the last entry here my hardware arrived from Benchcrafted.  I am very hands on and wanted to hold...

As many of you know I am member of The Woodwhisperer Guild.  If you are not familiar with the guild, I highly recommend checking it out as it is a great way to help challenge your skills as a new or...

It is that time a year again.  When as woodworkers we have been spending the past month not only buying Christmas presents but making a few also.  For my projects I ended up with 6 end grain cutting...

End Grain Cutting Board   Last week was my father’s birthday and I decided to make him an end grain cutting board.  This has always been a project I have wanted to build but just never...

Over the weekend I spent a few hours in Woodcraft with fellow MWAmembers after our monthly Atlanta meeting.  As usual, I migrated to the hand planes isle and couldn’t help but notice on the other...