Well, in spite of feeling like I am not getting enough shop time lately I must be finding some because the new items keep accumulating. I noticed that my pen stock was looking a bit picked over lately with the number of empty spots in my pen case so I did a small run of …
A few months ago I was making a batch of travel mugs out of wood. On one of them I realized after I had finished it that I had made the walls too thin in one spot and that it would never stand up to any use. I could not quite bring myself to scrap …
Someone gave be the branch from a plum tree recently and it was just the right size to make goblets from. I have never worked with plum wood before but in general fruit and nut woods are supposed to make pretty good turning woods so I was excited to give this a try. The first …
This was an idea that came from talking with someone I was taking a first aid course with. Originally he was interested in getting a box to hold pictures as a gift for his wife. As we talked about it though we eventually came up with the idea of a wooden photo album and gradually …
Recently I came across a discussion about shaving on a woodworking forum that I check out sometimes. Something that caught my interest was that some people were using old fashioned double edge razors, the kind with just a single blade and that use actual razor blades, rather than the modern cartridge type razor and these …
