For a while I have been contemplating getting a smoothing plane to add to my slowly growing arsenal of hand tools. The Queen Anne Side Table project that I’ve been working on caused me to revisit this idea. The issue I was having with the smoothing plane decision was which one to get. There are [...]
Recently, there was an ad placed in one of our local papers about a sale of tools and lumber from a woodworking shop. Given that the address listed in the ad was not too far from my home, I thought I’d make the short trip there to see what was available. So, early last Saturday [...]
This past weekend I had a few simple tasks left to complete on a sofa/hall table that I’ve designed an built (more on that in a future post) before starting the finishing process. What I needed to do was to simply cleanup the edges of the table top and then to put a small chamfer [...]
Sometimes you do something and wonder: “what took me so long to do that?” Well, yesterday was one of those days for me in the workshop. For years, I have been working with the standard table on my drill press. As you can see in the picture, I simply clamp a straight board to the [...]
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I buy virtually all of my lumber for furniture projects in the “rough”. By rough, I mean that the lumber has not been processed in any way since it was sawed into planks and then dried. The bark is gone, but the faces and the edges are rough and in need of surface and edge [...]
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