
Lock Miter Master Jig
When making boxes I use a number of joinery methods depending on the look that I want. The joinery most often ends up being part of the design and look that I am trying to accomplish. Dovetails give...

Another Year at Fine Woodworking Live
Last weekend I traveled up to Connecticut for Fine Woodworking Live. This was the second year of the conference and have to say it was even better than last year. For any of you that have attended...

New Band Saw or Rebuild the Old One?
I have an old 14″ Delta band saw that has been in my family since I was a kid. It is an ok saw, but resawing was impossible. It was just accepted that this was an old saw and never going to...

Renewed Energy and Great Friends
This past weekend The Woodworking Shows were in Atlanta. I spent the entire weekend at the show talking to people at the Modern Woodworkers Association booth and have to just say WOW. Last year...

Blue Spruce Mallet
This past October I had a chance to visit Pasadena, CA for Woodworking in America West 2012. Myself and several other of my fellow Modern Woodworkers Association members went out to see the show and run...

Old Woodworking Books… That are Still Relevant
Hear we are for the second year of Get Woodworking Week. Last year my good friend and fellow MWA admin Tom Iovino of Tom’s Workbench started Get Woodworking Week as a way for woodworking bloggers...

Izzi’s Table Finished – Milk Paint
A while back I wrote about building a table to hold my daughter Izzi’s doll house on. You can read more about the build here: A Simple Doll House Table. The build was a fun one day project that...

Dragon Box
One of the things I enjoy most about woodworking is designing and making something for someone else. I freind of mine is a very talented tattoo artist name Matt Greenhalgh of Only You Tattoo. Matt...

A Simple Doll House Table…or Maybe not
Like most of us I have a tendency to over do things. A few months ago my wife asked me to build a table to hold our daughters doll house. My intent was just to build something quick and easy. So this...

Chainsaw Carving?
As many of you know, I spend a lot of time up in western North Carolina where my family lives. We visit about once a month and about a year ago a place up in the north Georgia mountains caught my eye. ...