My shop is housed in my garage. I live in Colorado and the winters here can be pretty cold at times. When it is super cold I just don’t do any woodworking in my shop, it’s too nasty out there. Yes, I have a heater, but sometimes the cold overcomes the heater. Enter my workbench […]

Every woodworker that is worth his salt HAS to make a Tool Chest!! That is just the law of woodworking. Well, I have put it off for several years, but finally got around to doing it recently. Recently meaning doing this project over a period of two months or so. I used regular Red Oak […]

OK, this is NOT fine woodworking. But, what a cool idea! I do not know why I did not think of this before now. I was reading an article in Family Handyman magazine and discovered how to make a whiteboard (dry erase board) for your shop. You have to shop around for the parts, but […]

I got a wild hair to make some Cheese Boards for Christmas presents this year. OK, not the most practical thing to do, Christmas time is almost totally insanely busy. But I was able to persevere. A Cheese Board is a small cutting board for serving cheese and crackers. I did not have any real […]

I have wanted to build a wine rack for the last few years and finally got around to it. The plans, from Woodcraft Magazine, were very well done. I made the five shelf version (there is a two shelf version) out of Red Oak. The plans call for some MDF templates and a couple of […]

I saw the plans for this planer stand in the October 2011 edition of Woodworkers Journal. This stand fits my limited space shop perfectly, it has a very small footprint when everything is folded up to it’s smallest size. As you can see the stand has wings that fold out for stacking your lumber while […]

After completing the shed and moving my wife’s “stuff” into it I had more room for tools. Yippee!! I have had a Delta spindle sander for a few months now. It is billed as being “portable”. Yeah right. The thing weighs 80 lbs. I needed to build a tool stand to mount the sander. And, […]

I am NOT a construction carpenter!! After completing the Wall Mirror I wanted to build a shed before Winter arrived. Definitely don’t want to be building a shed in -10° that is for sure! I got the plans for the shed off Amazon. They were fairly well done, but left a few things to the […]

I have always wanted to make something for my daughter. I saw the plans for this wall mirror in Woodsmith magazine (great source of plans by the way). Also, I had a yearning to make something out of mahogany. This was a really fun project, but it sure took a while to build. I ordered […]

I haven’t been working on the blog for about a year. Oh, I have been doing projects alright. Just didn’t have time to do any blog articles. However, I am going to try to get back in it. Hence this article on the 3 panel screen I made a few months ago. The difficult thing […]