Chicken Coop

I made a tall coop for keeping a few chickens in. It has lots of perches that they can hop up on. The chickens have to hop a foot or so up and over to climb, but they seem to like it. I have made an effort to line up the perches so that they […]

July 9th, 2008 | Category: Chickens, Woodworking | 4 comments

Garden Cart

I got a garden cart kit from the North Houston Woodcraft store. They had one put together, and it moved perfectly, really quite manuverable, so I was quite interested, the box was open, so I started to count the parts. The salesmen assured me they had looked over the parts, it was all intact, and […]

July 3rd, 2008 | Category: Tool Making, Tools, Woodworking | One comment

Flush Cut Plane

This is one of the least common and most useful, simple planes,

This is a pretty simple tool. all you need is a plane blade, such as you can get at most hardware stores.

You don’t need a rare earth magnet this big. Two or three glued into drilled holes on the bottom […]

July 1st, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Tool Making, Woodworking | 2 comments

OWT

This is an old time tool called an OWT. Old womans tooth. It was what woodworkers used to clean out gouges and the like. Basically and old time router. I made this one to use a chisel, so it took up less room int the tool box.

Here it is with the chisel set […]

June 27th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Tool Box, Tool Making, Woodworking | 2 comments

Sawhorse

Everywhere you look someone has a different version of a sawhorse. This sawhorse is just a bit different, just like all the rest.

It is quite stable and quite light. It also has a few extra nifty qualities.

The sawhorse grips a 2×4 or 2×6 when you use it.

Here it is without […]

June 26th, 2008 | Category: Tools, Woodworking | 6 comments
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