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I figured it was high time I made myself a pipe. I grow my own tobacco, and my corn cob pipe has a plastic mouthpiece that pleases me not at all. I found a flawed chunk of mesquite and started work. I started the big hole with a one inch bit. Then I drilled the […] The Jointmaker Pro has gotten me thinking. When I was a child, I noticed no distinction, but then I was a child. A power drill was a hand tool, a drill was a hand tool. Now that drill is a hand drill or egg beater, the power drill is still a power drill or just […] In a previous post reviewing the Grizzly Japanese Chisels, I mentioned the repair of a Japanese Saw that had it’s handle broken. On the left is the new handle mortise being made. On the right is the broken handle. Note that the mortise on the new handle is smaller, in width and length. This […] Steven Shepherd has a really neat post on an 1856 hand cart. I really want to make one. It would be handy around the yard! Bob I have made an experiment of working outdoors. Three workbenches here. The one in front consists of two sawhorses supporting a four foot by ten foot frame. Sixteen foot long slabs of cedar make the table. The one in the middle is treated pine. It has to be covered because of the pattern […] |
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