The Renaissance Woodworker

The fall is here and that means cooler temps and fewer excuses to get out into your shops woodworking friends! Rick Waters and Neil Lamens are at it again with the latest Sawdust Chronicles Build Challenge. In the initial 30 day challenge in the Spring of 2009 I won a bunch of finishing products from [...]

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I was flattered and honored to be a guest host again on Wood Talk Online last night. I guess Marc and Matt didn’t trust me enough to be a part of show #69 for fear I might get them in trouble with bad title number jokes. Anyway, it was a great time and the show [...]

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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 has [...]

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In the last year I have started to see some stunning in lay work coming of the lathes of craftsmen around the world. In particular there have been some amazing inlaid pens with all manner of images and exotic woods put together in an intarsia like approach and then turned round and used as a [...]

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This may not be news to some of you galoots out there, but I recently stumbled across an outstanding blog called the Logan Cabinet Shoppe. Run by Bob Rozaieski, this blog focuses entirely on period furniture construction and hand tool only usage. What I like most is that there is a nice mixture of lofted [...]

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