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Building a Moxon Vise
Why I wanted to Build a Moxon Vise Work benches are low. When I was first learning about traditional woodworking, I noticed how low my friend’s workbench was. He informed me that the lower benches...
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Roubo Workbench #1: Getting Started
The Predecessors One of the first projects that I made when I first started woodworking in 2010 was a workbench for the garage. All 2×4 construction with a 3/4” thick top of white pine. I made all the...
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Roubo Workbench #2: Choosing the Material
I considered a lot of different materials for my bench. At the top of the list were southern yellow pine, white oak, red oak, ash, cherry, maple, and beech. Really, I think you can get away with a...
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Roubo Workbench #3: Some Design Considerations
Plans—they’re useful I’m sure, but I hardly ever use them. Sometimes I’ll sketch a few things down on graph paper, or other times I’ll actually use plans from a book, yet most of the time I tend to...
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Roubo Workbench #4: Constructing the Top
My workbench does not have a traditional laminated top. Rather than gluing the main planks on their faces, I opted to glue them on their edges mainly because I didn’t have enough lumber and didn’t want...
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Pipe Clamp Woes
While gluing up my workbench top with pipe clamps, there was one part of the bench that didn’t want to cooperate and so I had to exert an extra bit of force to close up the gluing gap. It worked. All...
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Roubo Workbench #5: The Legs and Stretchers
I have neglected this blog, but I still have tons of photos of this build, so I thought I should post them. Since we all like pictures more than text, I have a good photo-to-text ratio. :-) Each of the...
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Chamfer Plane
I decided to make a chamfer plane by adapting an old Stanley 220 plane. Now before anyone gets on my case for ruining a perfectly good 220, I should note that it was a $2 garage sale purchase that was...
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Roubo Workbench #6: The Leg Vise
Before getting to the leg vise, just a quick note on the tenons on the top. I purposely made the tenons about 1/4” longer than they needed to be so that they would sit proud of the bench top. I did...
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Roubo Workbench #7: The Sliding Dead-man
I don’t think I’ve really covered the dead-man much in this series, so here’s a short blog on it. The purpose of the dead-man is to support longer boards that you have placed in your leg vise for edge...
View ArticlePortlandia - He's Making Furniture Now
My pastor sent this to me and I got a good kick out of it, so I thought I’d share it here.
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Dutch Tool Chest #1: Design Considerations
The topic of tool chests has been quite polarizing on lumberjocks.com. The benefits, some would argue, are that they protect the tools, efficiently store them, cause one to think about what tools are...
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Dutch Tool Chest #2: Building the Carcass
So I’ve manage to build the carcass for the tool chest. Its footprint is about 33” wide by 15” deep. In terms of height, the front of the tool chest is about 23” tall and in the back it is about 31”...
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Dutch Tool Chest #3: The Lid, Handles, and Casters
I wanted to make the lid a breadboard to keep it nice and flat. I started with two boards of eastern white pine boards which I glued together, then added a stub tenons on each side. And here are the...
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Dutch Tool Chest #4: Tills and Thrills
This is where we left off last time—- a basic carcass completed but no tools inside it yet. On a side note, do you prefer to spell it carcass or carcase? I’ve seen it both ways. So now comes the fun...
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Dutch Tool Chest #5: The Larger Saws
My goal on the Dutch tool chest was to incorporate a space for two larger saws in the design. Like Chris Schwarz’s Dutch tool chests, I was determined to locate the saws on the lid, yet what I didn’t...
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Dutch Tool Chest #6: Adding a Double-u on the Lid
Warning: The letter W makes a lot of appearances in this post. If, for some reason you don’t like Ws, then just move along. I knew I wanted to add something decorative to the tool chest and my first...
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Vintage Hand Tools #3: Tenon Saw Rehab
Here’s an old tenon saw that I purchased from Ebay some time ago. I hadn’t done anything with it for awhile so I decided it was time to stop ignoring it. The maker according to stamp on the spine is...
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Dutch Tool Chest #7: Maximizing Space with Drawers
It’s been some time since my last blog post on this tool chest, but I’ve been making changes and using the tool chest for the past month, really putting it to the test. I debated with myself for some...
View ArticleMaking a Longboard (Skateboard) Video
In this video I combine two of my hobbies—skateboarding and woodworking. Whereas traditional skateboards stack layers of veneer one on top of another (akin to plywood), this longboard is made with a...
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