Larry | September 30, 2009
Back in the late 90s I discovered Roy Underhill and his “The Woodright’s Shop.” In those shows Roy advocated “beer-powered” woodworking and his skills and personality presented a way of creating things from wood that was peaceful and gratifying.
At the time, though, I was marching to the Norm Abrams (The New Yankee Workshop) drum where [...]
Larry | September 28, 2009
I live in Quebec, Canada. Most people here speak French, and people like me try, mostly without success. I was wandering the dollar store and my eye saw the word “entonnoir” on a label associated with a round hunk of plastic with a great big wonky hole as its “funnel” part. Like a [...]
Larry | September 23, 2009
I’m a lucky guy! The postman just arrived and I’m the proud owner of an original, “don’tcha wish you had one” t-shirt from The Sawdust Chronicles. In case you’ve been off living on a desert island and haven’t heard, The Sawdust Chroniclss is a woodworking podcast/blog by Rick Waters.
While I’m talking about Rick I should [...]
Larry | September 18, 2009
Have you ever been working, picked up a piece of scrap, incorporated it into a project and then discovered that it wasn’t scrap at all? Maybe it was rail stock for that set of doors you were building. Maybe it was a block that matches the 3 others that were going to be feet on [...]
Larry | September 17, 2009
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Larry | September 14, 2009
I’ve talked about how I use hide glue when building miniature furniture and I’ve discussed the reasons why it is superior to the typical yellow or white glues most use. More recently I’ve talked about Stephen Shepherd’s new book that is a complete treatise on all aspects of animal (hide) glues.
I hope this helped at [...]
Larry | September 13, 2009
Recently I talked about the new 1/8″ foot available from MicroJig for its Grr-Ripper table saw accessory. This is just a quick note to point you towards a new video they’ve posted from a guy who uses it on his small table saw to make train parts. I thought some of you might [...]
Larry | September 11, 2009
Do you ever wish your hobby involved wheels? Maybe it’s while watching a NASCAR race. Maybe the lastest extreme skateboard event is on TV. Guys like wheels.
But while many woodshops have noisy, spinning objects, the wheels in a woodworking world are pretty boring and not worth mentioning. But, at my house today, four of them [...]
Larry | September 9, 2009
It’s understood that woodworkers can never have too much wood. I’ve made this claim myself. It’s also a fact that one can’t have enough wood storage but most of us come up short in that category, or at least I do.
I have places for sheetwood and long boards. I even have a cabinet in which [...]
Larry | September 7, 2009
We woodworkers are pathetic when faced with nice wood. We can’t help it. It’s in our genes. We caress it, we make loving sounds and we’ve never got enough of it. As a miniaturist as well as a full-size woodworker, I have a real twisted view in addition to my love of wood. I can’t [...]
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