Downstairs Handcraft

Cutting the Tenons

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...

I have a few pieces of apple scrap at hand, and found one that was just about the right size for the new handle. At first glance, it l...

Last of the ten practice spindles, so thirty coves of wildly varying quality cut. At first glance, I would say something has shifted, comin...

Really focusing in on riding the bevel and then starting the cut with a sideways adjustment rather than deepening the tip, and I almost imm...

Peter Galbert, the author of Chairmaker's Notebook as well as the sequence of FWW articles on turning that really got me to just star...

The last session really felt like I was improving, then hit a bump in the road. Somehow I am doing something different as I initiate th...

After I went back to read the Darlow book, I also read Conover's discussion of cutting coves in Fine Woodworking's Turning supp...