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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I am introducing a new segment this week called Hand Tool Tips. I capture a lot of footage when I’m working in my shop. A lot of it really isn’t relevant to an ongoing topic or a specific project so it just gets filed away under miscellaneous tips. Hence the birth of [...]

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This week I wrap up my chest of drawers project by fitting the drawers, adding drawer stop blocks, installing hardware, and applying the finish. Then I severely screw it up and apply the finish again.
I hope you enjoy it!

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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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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Renaissance Woodworker. As with every year, I was hard at work at my lathe turning out all the little gifts for friends, family, and clients. I haven’t done a turning episode in a while so I thought I would bring you all into my shop and [...]

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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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If you think you have a lot of saws then think again. Ron Herman probably has more saws than anyone alive. What’s amazing is he uses everyone of them and uses them well.
Enjoy this episode full of gratuitous vintage saw footage.

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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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Adam Cherubini gave an entertaining presentation on the typical joinery planes found the the 18th century Joiners tool chest. Here are a few clips from that presentation and a bonus look at Adam cutting dovetails in the hand tool olympics.

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