Larry | January 7, 2010
In my last post on this subject I outlined my strategy to become as good a woodworker as Tom Fidgen. Having concluded, from studying his book Made By Hand, that he’s achieved his prowess by having a set of shop bents available to him I decided to build a set of my own, thus improving [...]
Larry | November 23, 2009
Sometimes I’m asked where I got the plan for this or that project. Most times I don’t have a plan but in this case I do. Here it is:
Bob Roziaeski, chief cook and bottle washer at the Logan Cabinet Shoppe produces some of the finest podcasts you’ll ever see on the use of handtools to [...]
Larry | November 11, 2009
We all know the expression – “Measure Twice, Cut Once.” If you work enough wood you also know that there comes a time when you don’t cut in the right place no matter how many times you measure. The mystery, to me, is why each and every time I make an error it produces a [...]
Larry | November 5, 2009
It seems I was a bit spartan in my word use in my asymmetric tenon post, leaving much to be desired in terms of explanation.
Shannon Rogers commented, “I’m a little confused or maybe I’m missing a step. After you cut the tenons and mortises then you then go back and run a rabbet on the [...]
Larry | November 4, 2009
A typical frame-and-panel door consists of a set of rails and styles held together with mortise and tenon joints. The center wood panel, whether raised or not, is held in a slot cut at the mid-thickness of the frame pieces. To do this cleanly one typically uses a haunched tenon.
But I found myself needing wood-framed [...]
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