So Many Projects, So Little Time...
It is more than 8 months since I completed my Joinery bench. I have cut a lot of joinery from dovetails to dados, tenons, and miters. I have been practicing my carving a lot lately and that has all happened on this bench too. Basically as any small shop woodworker knows, if you have a [...] Read more »
I finished up the Joinery bench just in time to make a few test cuts then pack it up in the truck for the trip to Woodworking in America. I’m still considering this design to be a pseudo prototype and need to spend more time working with it before casting a final verdict. Thanks to [...] Read more »
I decided more than a month ago that the Joinery Bench I am building specifically to take to WIA would be a prototype. As I am drawing to the end of the build, I will amend that statement and call it a quasi-prototype. I really like how it is coming together and I only have [...] Read more »
Bench building is more like timber framing than furniture making. The size of the timber and the joints makes your 2″ paring chisel feel small. These monster components mean that often tasks have to be done by hand because the machines in the average shop don’t have the capacity to handle them. Whether you are [...] Read more »
The first steps in my Joinery bench build entails laying out some rough cuts and selecting which pieces will be best for the top and legs. While this Douglas Fir is very clear, there is an errant tight knot here and there and I would rather not (pun intended) have one on the top surface. [...] Read more »
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the potential of using a slab of African Mahogany for my joinery bench top. This turned out to be a lightening rod topic that spawned a great deal of email about my poor upbringing, IQ, and what I might be smoking. It was really quite fascinating to see [...] Read more »
From the very first day I started the Hand Tool School, I have gotten requests about building a bench. It seems that despite my epically long Roubo build on this blog and gigabytes worth of data all over the net that we still cannot get enough of bench building. So, I admit it, I’m caving [...] Read more »
