Fast Easy Mortise Making!

I am putting together an outdoor sink. I decided to practice my mortise making.

Here is what I want to make;

To quickly make mortises first I drilled a big hole in the center and four smaller holes at the corners. This is easy to do with a brace.

Then I cut into […]

July 25th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Tutorials, Woodworking | 9 comments

Toolmaking Resources VI; Rob Hanson's Evenfall Woodworks

Rob Hanson, Evenfall has been kind enough to all of us to provide a large collection of books, resources and his own observations. His website is a delight. His Library of online books is also quite amazing. Evenfall is a regular contributor on the WoodNet Handtools Forum. His responses to questions there, are often articles […]

July 24th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Power Tools, Tool Making, Tools, Woodworking | One comment

Toolmaking Resources V; Gary Roberts' Toolemera Press

Gary has kindly organized, digitized, and given us access to a delightful library of tool and wood working documents. In his Book library, for example is the book, How to make woodworking tools. In this book alone are examples of tools that cover most of the range of hand woodworking.

Bob

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July 23rd, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Tool Making, Woodworking | 5 comments

Human Blindspots

Think back about the non-fiction books where the lead female is not dramatically gorgeous. You are amazingly well read and have a good memory if you can come up with even a handful. Male leads, can indeed be ugly.

They usually need to be clever, brilliant, smart, compassionate, brave, funny, determined or even ‘destined for […]

July 22nd, 2008 | Category: Injustice, Speculation | 5 comments

Toolmaking Resources IV; Stephen Shepherd

Stephan Shepherd has long maintained and compiled one the first resources of woodworking information on the net. If you go to his website and then click on Alburnam’s Archive, you will find this resource. Here you will find the motherload. There is more information, tips, methods, recipes and history than can be read in a […]

July 21st, 2008 | Category: Chemistry, Hand Tools, Metalworking, Recipes, Tool Making, Tools, Woodworking | Leave a comment
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