During the period of time when I made furniture on a full time basis I was not much of an enthusiast about turning. Basically I did what tur...

I enjoyed putting together a collection of dovetail saws by nearly all of the contemporary saw makers over the last years. It was my way of ...

I mentioned in my last post that I intended to paint my shop floor a light gray color. The floor is now gray. We have red clay soil where ...

The brown paper backing on the insulation batts reduced the efficiency of my light fixtures a great deal. When I first constructed my sh...

A customer asked if it was possible to have a wooden storage box made for his plane. In this case the "Willie Davis" plane. I...

Every once in a while you get a request to make something out of the ordinary. I have resisted the idea of making one of a kind planes becau...

The first of the Olive Wood Winter Smoothers is complete and on the way to it's new home. I looked forward to the completion of this too...