The Renaissance Woodworker

As a follow up to last week’s podcast on thicknessing a board by hand, I wanted to illustrate how I add a radical curve to my Scrub and Fore plane irons. I’ll walk through creating a template of the curves, roughing out the shape using sandpaper or a grinding wheel, then finally hone it to [...]

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Hey everyone, I’m back after a week off in Mexico and this week I want to play show and tell and highlight some of the cool tools that have come into my shop lately. I also take another look into the wood stash and discuss some uses for my treasures. The blog of the week [...]

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This week I dig into my wood stash and pull out two examples of the hoarded treasures I have laying around the shop. I also take you through several tips from relative measurement to splitter information on my table saw. The blog of the week is Fresh Shaving run my Muddler Mike at http://freshshavings.blogspot.com Don’t [...]

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This week is a lot of little things rolled into one episode. Also I premier the first video edition of Tales from the Hoarde. Don’t forget your entries for the pen of the month giveaway next week. I’ll be giving away a Penn State Majestic Jr. kit complete with drill bits, bushings, barrel trimmer sleeves, [...]

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It’s time for another installment of Hoarded Treasures Exposed! This month I am pulling another beautiful piece from the wood turning pile. Often called the woodturner’s gold, Amboyna Burl or Pterocarpus Indicus, is hard to equal for color and figure. This wood grows in southeast Asia with the most ocurrances in Cambodia and Myanmar. I [...]

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It’s time for another volume of Hoarded Treasures. This month my selection was inspired by Kaytrim over at Kaytrim’s Kustoms. Kaytrim recently posted about his return to building custom joysticks and his excitement over a beautiful piece of Narra. Earlier this week there were some exchanges on Twitter about some more Narra up for sale [...]

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It’s been another month and it is time for another installment of Hoarded Treasures exposed. Last month I actually did something with the Lignum Vitae I posted, but this month I am at a loss for what to do with this fine specimen. This is a 5x5x14 inch block of Grenadillo. It has been waxed [...]

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So last month in my Tales from the Hoard post I highlighted a chunk of Lignum Vitae. After my recent foray into carving I decided to put that particular piece to use and turn a new carving mallet. I thought this might make a good post on typical spindle turning. Let me warn you though [...]

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So as promised here we are another month later with a peek into my wood stash. I chose this month’s piece because I think I know what to do with it and wanted to share it before it becomes something else. As some of you may remember from one of my earlier posts, The Pack [...]

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So a typical Sunday afternoon brought some shop time and some yard work. While I was letting my Windsor chair dry after wetting it to raise the grain, I went out back to take care of some long over due yard tasks. We have 6 Japanese Yew bushes flanking our house. They provide a lot [...]

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