Once again, it’s Woodworkers Safety Week for 2010. Because there is a lot of content about safety with other power tools and hand tools, I thought I’d cover safety with another tool in the shop that can sometimes be underestimated with respect to its potential dangers. So, in this post I’ll discuss the safety at [...]
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Last week my woodturning club (www.fingerlakeswoodturners.com) had the pleasure of hosting a demonstration by world-class turner, Al Stirt of Enosburg Falls, Vermont (http://www.alstirt.com) at our monthly meeting. Al is world-famous for his turned and carved objects including square and fluted bowls. For our demonstration, Al turned and embellished one of his signature square bowls. Before [...]
Well, now that the legs have all been attached it was time to start the shaping of the leg to seat joints. If you’ve been following along, you know that there was a good amount of material that at each joint location that needed to be removed and sculpted into the seat to be more [...]
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Next in the series of reviews of DVD’s from the SmartFlix Woodworking University, I’d like to review the DVD: Wood Finishing Basics by Michael Dresdner. This DVD is one of many DVD’s produced by Taunton Press for Fine Woodworking. Wood finishing is one of the areas of woodworking that seems to confound many woodworkers. It [...]
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Next in the series of reviews of DVD’s from the SmartFlix Woodworking University, I’d like to review the DVD: Basic Box Making by Doug Stowe. This DVD is one of many DVD’s produced by Taunton Press for Fine Woodworking. Doug Stowe is a woodworker from Eureka Springs, Arkansas and he has been known for his [...]
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