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A Tribute to My Father: For the Love of Wood
housewears | December 30th 2009 by Jillian
Bolier's Rosenau Stateside Chair Dear readers, it is my sincere hope you are enjoying time with family and friends during these holidays! It is with great sadness I must tell you - a very special part of my life, my beloved father, has passed aw read more
Wood Sculptures That look Like Anything But. The Work Of Ricky Sw…
If It's Hip, It's Here | December 30th 2009 by laura sweet
above: Come together. Below: detail of Come togetherAustralian born sculptor and painter Ricky Swallow has many talents. Only one of which are his realistic wood carvings made with Jelutong, English Lime, Walnut and Pear wood.Although he has wonderfu read more
Plywood and Cork Laptop Case Slides To Stow [Cases]
Gizmodo | December 29th 2009
With their innovative furniture design, Charles and Ray Eames showed the world that plywood could be both beautiful and functional. Brian Kelly's plywood laptop case is at least one of those two things. While I'm not quite sold on the idea of pulling read more
Display table
junkblossoms | December 28th 2009 by Ron & Pat Harris
Today's project started with this square "bowl". I bought it at another yard sale. Can you see how much of a junker I am yet? I buy things others would toss and yet we have the best time using these things. So here we have a square bowl. And I have R read more
New Etsy Shop – The Scripture Store -Wood Carvings
Chuck-E-Byrd Wall Art | December 28th 2009 by Chuck Cobb
This is a great new store just loading up the shop as we found it on the first day they opened. But what we found so far is just beautiful, so much so that we bought the first item in this new shop. When it arrived it is beautiful, much nicer than th read more
Preview: Rockler’s New Pock-It Hole Clamp
Toolomonger | December 24th 2009
Several different clamps exist for holding a pocket hole joint together while driving the screws, but they either require you to clamp the workpiece to the table or are large and unwieldly vice-grip like contraptions. Rockler’s new Pock-It Ho read more
A Simple Woodworking Project: Gift Idea
Choosing a College | December 24th 2009 by Donna
With peg legs that extend horizontally from the body by approximately 4-inches, a small hand-towel can be hung here. Positioned on either side of a curtained window, the curtains can be drawn-back by stuffing each one respectively between the legs o read more
A Simple Woodworking Project: Gift Idea
Choosing a College | December 24th 2009 by Donna
With peg legs that extend horizontally from the body by approximately 4-inches, a small hand-towel can be hung here. Positioned on either side of a curtained window, the curtains can be drawn-back by stuffing each one respectively between the legs o read more
Free Tool Shed Blueprints – Only Use The Best
home improvement center | December 24th 2009 by welly
When you tackle any woodworking job, it goes without saying that a set of blueprints for the specific job you are about to undertake will be a huge help, and get your project off to a dream start. The fact is that tool shed blueprints vary a lot in p read more
Podshaving (the craft of cricket bat making)
Craft Videos | December 23rd 2009
Julian Millichamp still makes cricket bats the traditional way. read more
The carpenter’s jig
Otis Regrets ... Or Not | December 23rd 2009 by Otis Maxwell
In my town lives a master carpenter named Chris. He donates his time to serve on the town historical preservation board, and he donated his time last fall to supervise a bunch of Saturday amateurs who volunteered to help rebuild a dilapidated but bel read more
Kreg’s New Router Setup Bars
Toolomonger | December 22nd 2009
Should you turn in your brass setup bars for a set of Kreg’s new precision router table setup bars? Probably not, but they are an interesting alternative for setting up your table saw, router, and other tools. While brass setup bars are just read more
Register Your Leigh Products, Win $300 in Tools
blog.Tools.com | December 21st 2009 by Jamie Belsky
Recently we wrote about a promotion going on where you could win Bosch tools by registering your tools with Bosch. We just found a similar deal. Woodworking tools manufacturer, Leigh Industries, holds a drawing every 2 months where the randomly selec read more
Shop Update: crunch time 2.2
vaporlife | December 20th 2009
So it was a short weekend as I had office hours this Saturday and we had a lot going on but I managed to get most of the work done on one of the two projects that needed to be done by Christmas eve. Here you can see the cherry trash bin almost button read more
Blowout Sale at Laguna Tools!
blog.Tools.com | December 19th 2009 by Jamie Belsky
Woodworking tools manufacturer, Laguna Tools, is preparing for new 2010 products, so they’re having a sale to get rid of their 2009 merchandise. Laguna makes serious machines: enormous sanders, table saws, shapers. Laguna Tools manufactures in read more
The Best Ways to Organize Wooden Sheds
SEO Make Money Info | December 19th 2009 by LoveBlogEarn
If you own a wooden shed then you probably know how important it is to have everything in it well organized. Wooden sheds, by design, are relatively small and can therefore get filled up quite rapidly. If you have a new shed with nothing in it yet, n read more
TM’s 2009 Favorites: Skil 7500 Belt Sander
Toolomonger | December 18th 2009
I often refer to the Skil 7500 belt sander as the shop’s secret weapon. When things get bad or when bad measurement has reared its ugly head, I’ll reach for this first. With a 3” x 18”, forty-grit belt draped around the rollers, ther read more
Shop Update: crunch time 2
vaporlife | December 18th 2009
Ummmm... is Christmas really a week or so away? I better finish these shop projects. I don't know if you remember that dimensional cherry that I obtained recently, well its now been transformed into this solid wood bin. Sure making a trash bin from read more
Mitertite
Toolomonger | December 17th 2009
The Mitertite™ system cuts and fastens mitered casing joints. The patented system from Collins Tool Company uses a single pocket screw perpendicular to the joint driven through the edge of the mitered casing, as shown at the bottom of its assembly read more
How-To: Build A Crib — Part 1
Toolomonger | December 16th 2009
The Mrs. and I are expecting our firstborn in a few months. Your life changes in unexpected ways with the mere mention of this event. One of side effects of this experience is that money starts disappearing for baby stuff. There are tons of items yo read more
Dealmonger: WoodRiver 8-Piece Chisel Set
Toolomonger | December 16th 2009
Woodcraft has decided to give us a break and take the ridiculous $85 price tag off their 8-piece set of WoodRiver bench chisels and try to move some units with a $50 sticker price. That’s more like it. The set includes: 1/4″; 3/8″; 1/2 read more
Woodworking Inspiration
MLuxe - Distinctive Home Style | December 16th 2009
Today’s post is a guest contribution from Susquehanna Photo and co-authored by Mandy Arnold, of LightStyles, Ltd., a window, door and hardware distributor based in Carlisle, Penn. Many small towns often look inward for their sense of identity. The read more
Hand made tools
Blog of Sean Favero | December 15th 2009 by Sean Favero
I love tools but unfortunately have to be disciplined and make do at times. One of my classmates, who now designs for Coleman, did furniture restoration for a while during school. He loved this job as he said he got to be creative. Lack of tools a read more
Wood talk: Cheif Hiawatha:
vaporlife | December 15th 2009
I know a man named Lyle N. who is a woodworker who lives in the U.P. of Michigan. I was admiring his hand carved cane one day, and told him if he ever wanted to sell it to let me know. So he graciously carved me this one out of a solid branch that h read more
Projects: Dartboard Cabinet Rebuild — Part 3
Toolomonger | December 15th 2009
The dartboard cabinet restoration was coming along great. After a coat of natural Danish oil and a few coats of poly, the cabinet itself and the doors that go along with it were looking better than I thought they would. It was time for everything to read more
A1 Carpentry & Joinery - Carpenters & Joiners in Rocheste…
Touch Local Business Videos | December 15th 2009 by Touch Local
A1 Carpenters & Joiners of Rochester is a specialist joinery andcarpentry contractor based in Rochester and working across the Medwaytowns and throughout Kent. No job is too small. They specialise in cut& pitch roofing & trusses, 1st read more
A review of a grand wood worker!
U.S.W.G.O. Alternative Hybrid Press | December 14th 2009 by Brian Hill
Author: Brian D. Hill Source: http://www.isetehtud.pri.ee/blog/ Date: Unknown As I was going through this guys woodwork blog and noticed at first that his old woodwork blog is done as a static html page manually. I have noticed some of his work looke read more
A Diy Guide On Woodworking Jigs
Home Repair Guide | December 10th 2009 by spring
Woodworking jigs are a necessary part of any woodworking shop. They are great for repetitive tasks in many wood working projects. They make complex projects easier to manage and faster. You can buy pre-made templates or make your own. Although they a read more
Barlas Baylar and Hudson Furniture: Organic and Eco-Friendly
Five Star Life | December 10th 2009 by Renee Gardner
One may see there the evolution of chandeliers, tables, bed frames and their headboards. Metal, wood, glass, and stone have been reinterpreted to furnish civilization. Chain chandeliers with gently sinuous waves of metallic accents trace the descent read more
Hitachi’ Volt Combo Kit Review
Dompas Networks | December 8th 2009 by Syafrein Effendiuz
Power tools must provide you convenience in the jobs that you need to do. Imagine having all the tools that you need right in one bag. That would be great wouldn’t it? It can be pretty frustrating to transport tools from one place to another i read more
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