The Renaissance Woodworker

I’ll be upfront and say that this post will probably get me in trouble but it is something that has been on my mind for a bit. I view fine woodworking to be in a renaissance of sorts as more and more new people come to the craft. It is exciting and somewhat nostalgic as [...]

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My Roubo workbench has given me so much joy that I finally decided to give something back and we became blood brothers last night. I guess I can say that I have finally broken in the bench with this sacrifice. It is still amazing just how much a little tiny cut can bleed. At least [...]

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I have always thought of myself as a pretty slow woodworker. I am constantly amazed by the time in which my fellows crank out furniture. I don’t attribute this to my penchant for hand tools either because I have seen some of my neanderthal colleagues tear through a project as well. I am not adverse [...]

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Hi everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that I have discovered a problem with the comments function on my blog that is not allowing anyone to leave comments. Instead the happy commenter is taken to a 404 error page. Apparently this has been going on for a while and I was unaware. [...]

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My first day at The Steppingstone Museum was an eventful one. I met the shop Master, Wade Whitlock about 30 minutes before the museum opened and we had some time to catch up on each others backgrounds. Wade has been volunteering there since 1992 and he is really “the rock” of the organization as he [...]

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Take a nondescript hunk of wood like this: Turn it into this with some resawing, crosscutting, joinery, etc… How can you not want to be a woodworker? Happy Memorial Day to my American friends, now let’s go get into our shops!

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It no secret that I am a hand tool zealot. I sometimes go out of my way to use only hand power when working on projects. Every now and then, it is time to re enter the 21st century and flip some switches and smash some electrons. Well it has been some time since I [...]

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The last few weeks have not been banner woodworking weeks for me. Not because of a lack of shop time…far from it. I have been furiously working to complete my Queen Anne Side Table. The less than stellar experience comes from my own mistakes. This has been a series of “nothing gone right” shop days. [...]

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I was breaking down a beautiful 12″ wide Walnut board for the Queen Anne side table I’m building for The Wood Whisperer Guild build. I got the wide board from the mill specifically for the top that will be 16 x 20. Once I removed the sap wood from both edges the 12″ board would [...]

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The piece I’m dubbing my Studio Table was the first project I have completed with my Roubo workbench completely finished. After investing so much time in building this bench it was a very affirming experience to build a piece of furniture using my newest and easily most valuable tool. Granted this little Stickley table hardly [...]

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