Posts Tagged With: Wood

Wood…

One of the reasons I got into woodworking originally was the beauty of the material itself.  I remember making simple things in shop in 7th grade and being completely blown away by the wood after it had been sanded, stained and shellacked.  Today was a frustrating day at work, so I stopped on my way home [...]

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Woodworking With My Son – Making a Bird House

Hopefully this is the first of many posts on making stuff with my son. We’ve done a few projects together, the best was when we forged a knife together.  I had a few scraps of O-1 round bar, my son forged this to shape, ground it flat, cut out the brass guard, glued it up [...]

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I Can Do That (Too)

Popular Woodworking has been running a series of articles called “I Can Do That”, the premise being that with some simple tools anyone can make these projects.  I think it’s a great idea, although most of the projects don’t interest me personally. However the I Can Do That: Gent’s Chest from the December 2011 issue of Popular [...]

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The Studley Caliper

This is a short story about the Studley Caliper.  No, this isn’t a caliper for “men regarded as virile and sexually active”, it is a small caliper contained in the elaborate tool chest that belonged to H.O. Studley.  Christopher Schwarz blogged about this in “My Favorite Tool from the H.O. Studley Tool Chest“. First, the tool [...]

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