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...

One thing about the online woodworking community you notice after being around awhile are trends.  Projects, tools, and techniques tend come in waves, and the current wave washing up is all about benches...

For those who have followed my progress on the Greene & Greene style hand plane set, I have finally finished.  In the last post I had finished putting together the last two of the three planes and...

One of the things I have enjoyed most about writing this blog and staying active in social networking with other woodworkers is the chance to get to know, learn from, and hopefully share some of what I...

This is a guest post by Dyami Plotke of the Penultimate Woodshop. It originally appeared at penultimatewoodshop.com. Feel please check back there for post relating to Dyami’s woodworking ramblings. So...