Monthly Archives: August 2010

Now that I’m back home, I’m continuing to work on my new workbench.  I’ll put up a post on that later, for now I’d like to show you how I built a small bench hook for my new sharpening stones. … Continue reading →

I had forgotten to bring anything to the Foundational Joinery class at Homestead Heritage to take notes, but fortunately Jeremy came through for me with some of his fancy Whitelines paper.  Since I was trying to take notes while listening … Continue reading →

I’m going to take the liberty of backdating this post for consistency – we left Waco directly after the workshop ended on Saturday for the 7 hour drive home, and this is the first chance I’ve had to sit down … Continue reading →

As titled, today was dominated by fitting the tenons we cut yesterday.  It’s a slow, painstaking, and very rewarding task. So we have our mortises (slots) cut into the legs, and the tenons are the narrower part of the table … Continue reading →

We rolled into Homestead Heritage very excited today, it’s about time to set aside the pine stock and move to walnut.  The table we’ll be making is very nice, though I have a feeling it may lack the inlay in … Continue reading →