The Renaissance Woodworker

I have completed all the functional aspects of my workbench and it has already greatly improved the quality of my woodworking. Now it is time to turn my attention to some of the creature comforts. I find myself crossing back and forth across my shop to get a bench hook or a shooting [...]

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to work on Roubo…

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I know there are a lot of sources on how to cut your dovetails by hand, but I figured I would try to add my own to the mix. It seems as if we can’t get enough dovetails tutorials. I know when I was learning I looked at everything so here is another [...]

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This was a piece that was commissioned at the end of summer and fortunately I caught most of the build on film. Granted it is all my old camera so the quality is a little lower than what you have been seeing as of late. I skipped most of the initial milling stages [...]

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Here is another edition of my Roubo saga. Been sitting on this footage for about a month now and finally got it edited and put out. In this episode I will rout the grooves for the sliding leg vise. But first I need to make sure all the joinery points on the [...]

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We are all busy and as the year draws to a close and the holiday frenzy spins up our lives obtain a fever pitch. It is during this hectic time that I like to steal away if only for 15 minutes to my workshop and try to obtain a bit of serenity. Many [...]

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For any of you that had questions about my poor description of how Chuck uses his table saw to make loads of stringing material when I mentioned it in my WIA recap post, you have to head over to Chuck’s blog to check out his first foray into video blogging. It sounds like Chuck [...]

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One of my favorite seminars at this year’s WIA in Valley Forge was Peter Follansbee’s look at 17th century carving. We learned a lot about the furniture of the style, the carvings, and how they were made. I got a great deal of footage during this session and it was really hard to [...]

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Welcome back to the show. I appreciate everyone’s patience while I took a few weeks off. My new job is going great but it has kept me very very busy. Add to that helping my wife at her school and attending all of the fall musicals and recitals that go with being [...]

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Another great seminar at WIA this time centered around traditional inlay techniques with Chuck Bender.
Make sure you check out Chuck’s blog for complete instructions on how to make your own set of Bender inlay tools.
Finally, a few points on Sulfur inlay that I forgot to mention in the podcast. When cutting the recess for [...]

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