I made a 6-piece burr puzzle. The design is named “Torture”, an apt name for this thing the requires 26 moves to disassemble. I saw a 2-page profile of a master puzzlemaker in Wood Magazine. In that article, there was a picture of one of the puzzles he makes named “Torture”, and it’s 6 pieces. …
This is a 4′ diameter round table I made for my dining room in 2004. This is the first major furniture project I made. The base is based off an oval-shaped coffeee table I saw in the book “Modern Furniture Projects”. I increased the height, changed it to a circular table, and designed a matching …
Tonight we (the combined woodworking clubs of Austin) got to spend an evening with John Economaki from Bridge City Tools. He was in town for the Lie-Nielsen hand tool event this weekend. I was the one that set it up, honestly I didn’t know what to expect. He gave me a lot to think about, …
It took longer to convice myself that all was ready than to actually do it – I glued the front part (about 5 boards or so) to the rest of the top. Now it’s even harder to move around and won’t fit in any jointer I know of.
Dry fitting the workbench base. These are all doubled up southern yellow pine, ripped from 2×10 boards from home depot.
When I was doing the owl house project with my club (Woodworker’s Club of Austin), the wildlife rescue place brought one of their owls for us to see. It’s such a small but alert little creature.
Dry fitting the tail vise to the bench front and side. I found an error in the plans, an extra 1/4 inch in the height of the movable vise. Since it’s glued up and the holes are drilled, I have to modify things to move it up.
When you have a friend with a 16″ jointer and you need to flatten a benchtop, is it really cheating to do it this way?