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Home Brew Mash Paddle
I am getting ready to make the move from brewing beer with malt extracts to brewing with all grain. The key step in the process is mashing, which is where you steep the malted barley in hot water to...
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End grain cutting boards
With the Christmas craft show season in full swing, I decided to make some end grain cutting boards to add to my inventory. I’ve made several using maple and walnut, two of my favorite woods. I’ve also...
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Pine 6-Pack Carriers
The leaves are just turning colors and I’ve already got a jump start on Christmas projects. I’m usually putting the last coat of finish on my projects late on Christmas Eve. LOL. Since Christmas is...
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Curly maple and walnut dovetailed box
About a year ago, my cousin asked me if she could borrow one of my boxes to use in her wedding. She was looking for something that she could set out for people to put cards in at the reception. I...
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A Pair of Dovetailed Cherry Boxes
I made these two boxes during the Christmas building season. I had already finished my shopping, but my kid wanted to make a box for his special lady friend for a Christmas gift. It made sense to me...
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Pretty Good Maple Plane
About a year ago, Jonathan S. from the Alaska Woodworker and I taught a Krenov style plane building class for the Alaska Creative Woodworkers Association. We had a dozen or so guys in the class. We...
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Wood Veneer Hammer
I made a veneer hammer patterned after the style Steve Latta uses. I have a commercially made all metal hammer, but as Steve explained to me, a metal hammer gets too hot. He sets his hammer in a...
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Dovetailed Router Plane Box
Once a year the Alaska Creative Woodworkers Association hosts a weekend event called Tools and Techniques. As president of the club, even I am not immune to doing demonstrations! I was asked to...
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Norris Style No. 6 Smoothing Plane
This is my interpretation of a Norris No. 6 smoothing plane. I built it with a steel sole and brass sides. The infill is Honduran rosewood. The iron is a 2-1/4” x 5/32” A2 Hock iron bedded at 50...
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Steve Latta's Inlay Bench
In one of Steve Latta’s many inlay DVDs, he discusses the design and construction of his inlay bench. I built mine to do federal inlay work, but I have found it to be a very useful bench for other...
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Birch burl bowl
A couple years ago a fellow woodworker gave me two burls because I mentioned that I enjoy carving them into natural form bowls. This burl was still green when I got it. I would work on it every now and...
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Inlay Tool Chest
I built this tool chest to hold my Lie-Nielsen inlay tools. It is made from walnut with a cherry raised panel lid. The dovetails were cut by hand and the panel was raised by hand. The hinges are 95°...
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Sculpted Birch Burl Bowl
I found this birch burl laying on top of my brush pile. I have no idea how it got there because I thouroughly screen the brush for stuff like this before anything goes on the pile. The burl is probably...
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Veritas spokeshave kit
I made an ebony spokeshave using the Veritas spokeshave hardware kit. The ebony wasn’t too difficult to work with. It planed and carved nicely. I was able to see pencil lines if the light was coming...
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Hand cut dovetail box
In October, our local woodworking club hosted a class by Texas furnituremaker Frank Strazza. I put the last coat of finish on it late on Christmas eve, and gave it to my wife as a gift. The class was...
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Moxon twin screw vise, times ten
Several months ago when Chris Schwarz posted his blog about building the Moxon twin screw vise, I filed it away as something our woodworking club (Alaska Creative Woodworker’s Association) needed. Next...
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Veneer sanding jig
Necessity is the mother of invention. After resawing the side blanks, I needed a method to thickness sand thin strips of wood for a Nordic tine. Using my planer was disasterous when tearout caused the...
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Hand made 2x10 T&G Flooring
This should probably go on the HomeRefurbers side, but I think of it as more of a woodworking project. I needed about 800 square feet of 2x decking to span the log joists on 48” centers in my log...
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The obligatory first pen project
My 13 year old and I got our first lathe this week. He made the pen and letter opener on the left using bocote as a mother’s day gift. I already sent out my mother’s day gift, so I made the birdseye...
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Sockeye Salmon relief carving/woodburning
This is my first attempt at a “real” relief carving. It was a good learning experience. I’m thinking about making another one to refine my techniques.
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