Over Engineered

The next step of my hand tool journey was to make a traditional joiner's mallet.  The joiner's mallet is obviously used for hitt...

My wife and I give each other Christmas ornaments every year.  This year I decided to make the ornament.  This was my version of a desi...

I tuned up a seldom-used hand plane recently to give to a friend.  This was a plane that I had been sitting on a shelf for a number of ye...

I spent the last week or so cleaning up and repairing the free bandsaw I got a while back .  It's a 12 inch Craftsman bandsaw made durin...

I was walking in my neighborhood the other day and came across a decrepit roller cabinet that someone had put out for the trash.  It was one...

After building my workbench , I needed a few extra accessories to help out with various tasks. Holdfast Pads I bought some holdfasts f...

Last year I got a PiGRRL 2 kit as a gift and just recently assembled it.  Overall, I was pretty impressed with the kit. The instructi...

I finally completed my Knockdown Nicholson workbench.  I previously posted about my chicken-and-egg problems of building a workbench wit...