Sturdy Garage Workbench With Top Pegboard, Cabinet and Bottom Shelf: Any craftsman, carpenter or hobbyist will tell you that a good workbench is the most important element of any workshop. Its construction, dimensions, characteristics are usually conditioned by the place where the workbench is located, but in general…
A chisel is a tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge of blade on its end, for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal
Wooden Cream Cheese Knife : Hey folks, do you have a bin of scrap wood that you've collected over the years that keeps getting larger and larger? Ya know, stacked with wood that is either too short, too thin, too small or too oddly shaped for most projects? Well, I have one …
Amazing! I never imagined that something so simple could bring so much joy to my 6 year old grandson, I just made him a wooden cart, and...
From Tree Bark to Comb: I found this tree bark from scraps. Normally, this kind of material will be thrown away. This time I gonna use it to make something cool. tool: bench planer chisels Japanese pull saw coping saw sandpaper (120/ 240/ 320)
Plain English Kitchens founder Katie Fontana's houseboat where a love of Pure craftsmanship & aesthetic simplicity reign supreme.
How to Make an Apothecary Cabinet: I built this apothecary cabinet last week in my workshop. And here is the video of the building process. It's a 400mm*400mm cabinet which has 9 small drawers and 2 large drawers. I used 4/4 beech to build the outside part of the cabinet. To make the…
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Booking Binding Press: In this guide, I show how I made this bookbinding press. It's a super easy project, so it's also quite a short video. I wanted to make a few notebooks for a while now, I usually have a few different ones and was fed up with buying them, so thought I…
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Scrap Wood Balancing Rocks - Tumi Ishi: Most woodworking projects produce scraps and off cuts. Sometimes these can be quite small and only useful for the fire pit. But there is new hope for these forlorn little pieces of wood, turn them into endless hours of stacking balancing fun! Tumi …
Israel Martin renovated an 18th-century stone house in the Cantabria region of northern Spain for his all-hand-tool workshop.
Booking Binding Press: In this guide, I show how I made this bookbinding press. It's a super easy project, so it's also quite a short video. I wanted to make a few notebooks for a while now, I usually have a few different ones and was fed up with buying them, so thought I…
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Sitting in FourBarrel Coffee on a cloudy San Francisco morning sipping coffee in her overalls, long hair flowing over her shoulders, Aleksandra Zee looks like any other hip Mission dweller — until she explains her vocation. “A lady woodworker is definitely tough as nails, because men are thought of as woodworkers,” says Zee, 29. Zee honed her craft as a full-time installation artist for Anthropologie for two years starting in 2008, building giant wood installations, tables, cabinets and light fixtures. In August, she had a solo exhibition, “Sea Salt,” at Rare Device. Zee’s artistic style is recognizable for its geometric designs and Southwestern-colored wood stains. “The desert is where I draw a lot of my inspiration — the color scheme and the textiles, artisans, the history,” she says. If people were tearing down houses, I have friends send me pictures of piles of torn-out construction. During the past year, Zee’s status as a sought-after artisan (and blog subject) has shot up because of her dreamy Instagram feed featuring photos of her artwork, road trips and an effortlessly decorated Mission apartment where she lives with her wild-haired musician boyfriend, Antrom Kury, and a dog named Jack. Zee grew up in the small coastal community of Dana Point (Orange County). After college she loaded up her Jeep, headed north and never looked back. [...] the increase in tech money has also meant new customers who have kept Zee busy with requests for custom pieces.
Comfort Birdie to Fly | Easy Wood Carving for Beginners: My friend died. It was a long time ago, probably 10 years or so. And my dad was trying to comfort me. While he was a woodworker, the only way for him to express his feelings was through wood. That is why he made a Comfort Bird for me. He said to m…
The good workman will never use poor tools when he can obtain good ones. The careless workman may, but such choice is an evidence of inferiority, and brands him at once as a man who takes little pr…
As to the ancient furniture of good English oak, of which wood Cobbett (though I should hardly quote him as a sterling authority on such a matter) says the furniture of an Englishman’s house …
Italian artisan Andrea Brugi creates handmade, organically shaped pieces that are both rustic and refined, using ancient felled wood he finds on his family
Got lots of sawdust sitting around your shop? Whether you burn it, compost it, or trash it, we’ve got some ideas on how to upcycle some of those shavings.
Make these DIY gifts to give Mom and Dad for Christmas or birthdays, handmade crafts for parents. Home decor, creative art, thoughtful presents.
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New to woodworking or having trouble with certain projects? Whether you are a beginning woodworker or expert, these tips from the pros will speed up and simplify your projects. Improve your DIY skills with these awesome tips that help you learn how to create perfect furniture, crafts, and home repairs. Lots of professional-looking finishes are
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How to make your own spoon butter to naturally recondition your wooden spoons and cutting boards. Petroleum-free, there's NO mineral oil in this recipe.
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The Woodworks Library has a bunch of PDFs of woodworking books, mostly public domain materials from the late 1800s or early 1900s. However, some of them
I’ve always loved seeing period depictions of woodworkers at work. To see the way their tools are stored, their posture while working, and even shop conditions brings these makers to life for me. I have for years been downloading images I found online when they were particularly interesting. It’s been helpful but I often lost track of where I got them. When I recently did a Google image search for an old painting, I realized upon clicking on it that it was hosted on Pinterest. I had never signed up for Pinterest because it seemed like there wasn’t much of interest to me. Lots of knitting and home décor stuff. But this time when I clicked to the “board” that this particular image was on (“pinned to”), I saw tons more paintings, drawings, and photographs of woodworkers that I hadn’t seen before. For those of you that don’t know, Pinterest is a website on which you can organize your favorite images you find online. After you sign up for a free account, you can view the collections of images from people with the same interest as you. For me, I’ve found a pile of pre-industrial woodworkers. I “pinned” them all on one board so that you can see them together. So, if you’d like to see this gallery of images, check out it out here. I don’t know much about Pinterest but I expect one of these days I’ll make a board of furniture images that I like. For now, check out these woodworkers.
About Woodworking Rustic Italian style meets Scandinavian design in this stunning collection of simple woodworking projects. Woodworking husband-and-wife duo Andrea Brugi and Samina Langholz invite you into their magical world, where their Scandinavian sensibility for clean design is balanced with organic and aged imperfection inspired by their Tuscan home. Discover some of their key woodworking techniques through twenty simple projects for useful and decorative objects for the home—from cutting boards and simple doorstops to benches and dining tables. With striking photography, step-by-step instructions, and information on the types of wood and tools required for each project, you’ll have everything you need to start handcrafting your own woodworking masterpieces that celebrate the beauty of uniqueness and combine modern design with rustic warmth. “Our ethos is very simple: do more with less; let each project unfold organically; always be open to possibilities; welcome mistakes and learn from them; let simple, found, and readily available materials embolden your design and decisions.”—from the introduction
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