Easy Square

Here is a real simple project that is pretty and well worth doing.

Take a nice block of wood and cut a slit in it deep enough and wide enough to hold a carpenters square. Then epoxy it in and make sure the face is square. This makes the square very convenient and pretty.

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June 25th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Tool Making, Woodworking | Leave a comment

My Forge

Here is how I built my forge. Inexpensively. The boards you see are treated dog eared pine picket fence that has been run through a planer. The supports are scrap 4×4 from old fences, cut with a 30 degree taper on two sides to support a hexagonal shape. Like a bee, a lot of what […]

June 20th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Metalworking, Power Tools, Tool Making, Tutorials, Woodworking | 6 comments

Testing Japanese Saws

I am setting up an outdoor sink. I decided to go ahead and try out Japanese Tools for making the frame for it. I will also try learning a few of the methods of joining that are classic Japanese. I will be going for simple and solid, nothing worthy of a temple builder here.

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June 18th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Woodworking | Leave a comment

Two Layer Milk Paint

Here is a method for producing a durable, weather resistant, and lovely milk paint. The secret is PH. Anionic and Cationic layers will cross link and draw to each other. Since wood is acid, first you start with the base coating. Alkali will tend to draw in and bond to acid. Then when the alkali […]

June 16th, 2008 | Category: Recipes, TEOTWAWKI, Toxins, Woodworking | 38 comments

Original Tool Tote Revisited

I am posting this to preserve for myself what I did to make it. This tool tote, is closely based on Kit Africa’s Hexagonal Tool Tote in Taunton’s Toolbox Book by Jim Tolpin.

I picked up the book, saw the tote and then had to have the book. I fell in love with the tote […]

June 13th, 2008 | Category: Hand Tools, Recipes, Tool Making, Toxins, Woodworking | 5 comments
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