Letters from the Chair

After my better half got home and after a little debating, we decided the spilt rail fence just didn't look quite right around the garde...

Well it's been almost a month since my last post and that about sums up how furniture making has been going. Pretty dead right now, but ...

 After browsing over my past videos uploaded to YouTube, I watched the one on Spindle Making. While I'm never happy with the...

I have always liked the look of painted antiques and how the paint seems worn (battered in some cases) and all the patina that naturally ...

After spending time and money to have my furniture photographed by a professional photographer, I decided I'd give it a try myself. I...

                                     I was impressed with using the Hot Hide Glue yesterday on my first big project, so I thought ...

After a ton of reading about and hearing about it from other woodworkers, I decided to try Hot Hide Glue. I bought a cheap little $10 crock ...

I have always been fascinated with a pair of hold fasts, the little bent metal tools you see everyone using in hand tool work. Seemed so coo...

I had been sitting at the shaving horse all day when my 3 year old daughter Lily, came out to see me. I stood up and walked over to the benc...

    Now that I am caught up for a week I have to try and get this bed knocked out. It's a bed for my 2 year old daughter, Lily. My wife ...

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Here is a video of how I go about carving the knuckles for my Nantucket Fan Back arm chairs. I have never been taught how to do this and d...

     I thought I would show how I go about making a glass door for my cabinets pieces. Instead of using a cope and stick router bit set, I o...

Here is a promo to my DVD on making a Bow Back Windsor. I use a few new techniques now but this is basically how it's done. There are a ...

There are times when you know you have to get a new tool. When one is broken, worn out, or not doing the job needed. Well this is one of tho...