Here are pics of the completed Plane cabinet. I haven’t forgot the issue that was raised in the comments section related to “ramping” the mortis I will get back to that when I have something intelligent to say. Here are some “learning points” I got from finishing this project. I had a problem installing the …
John is at it again. We just finished a brutal month of traveling and teaching and John has got back in the shop! There is a certain order or Karma to life, and when you violate this flow events let you know.Like the time I saw this woman and said “when are you due” to …
Diagram and description of John Cram’s fan chair, 1786. American Philosophical Society. The American Philosophical Society was founded in Philadelphia in 1743 by Ben Franklin to “promote useful knowledge.” Before the U.S. Patent Office was formed, one of the functions of the APS was as a repository for plans for inventions and devises for …
Bridge City SS-2 Saddle Square I try to keep my tool kit as small as possible. So if I don’t use a tool for a few years, I try to get it into someone else’s hands so they can use it. Sometimes that means selling it or giving it away. Back in 2010 I sold …
I was able to get a resource for the ramped mortis I used when installing hinges on my plane cabinet. As you recall I ramped one side of the mortis to accomodate the non-swaged hinges. This of course was not an original idea of mine and it generated some great thougths on the blog. Below …
A Southwestern chair by Lynette Breton and Ann Flannery As a woman who has been building furniture and cabinetry since 1980, when there were so few of us in woodworking shops that we prompted stares and questions (“What’s your real job?” “Did your husband teach you how to do this?”), I have a sense of …
Fig. 6.8 Here is the pin, snaking its way through the offset holes. This joint is a testament to the great strength of oak – that a thin piece of hardwood like this can hold these joints together for centuries. It pulls the tenon into the mortise and never lets it go. When people ask …
Furniture maker Phil Lowe once showed me two 55-gallon barrels filled with clear stuff that looked like sand. He got the barrels from a factory that made gummy bears (I think he said the factory went out of business). Anyway, he used the stuff in the barrels – gelatin – to make his hide glue. Since …
A three-legged stool before I level its legs. It’s a crude and obvious joke, but what do you do with all the extra kinda-crappy chair parts and chunks of waste that are piling up in your shop? Make stools. Ever since I began making chairs, I also began designing and making a lot of stools …
It’s 5 p.m. on Sunday, and almost all of the students in my “Precision Handsawing” class are packing up their tools to head home after two punishing days of listening to my drivel while trying to perfect their handsawing. But in one corner of this picturesque Kentucky classroom, Michael Rogen refuses to stop laying out …