Downstairs Handcraft

Hmm - Knots

A real downside to using the cheap SPF construction material for this project is the simple fact that the wood is low grade. In addition...

After a long hiatus, I came back to this project, picking right up to clean the tenons and then cutting the double-shoulder tenons for ...

The design has an interesting use of single-shouldered tenons set in opposing directions. Normally, single-shouldered tenons are less sta...

Image is property of the Woodwright School The August 2016 edition of Popular Woodworking has an article by Roy Underhill , on buil...

So, dried coffee grains in hand, 2-part epoxy at the ready, time to give this a whirl. It really makes quite a mess, but I guess the ide...

The Fine Woodworking Winter 2013-14 tools and shop issue (#237) had a short article about turning a carver's mallet. While I don'...

Perhaps I am stretching it getting three posts out of reconditioning just one chisel, but because it was a side project it ended up taki...