This week I made my second edition of the self-centering doweling jig. I made one of these back in the day before I stated making youtube videos but there were some major drawbacks to my edition 1.0. The dowel jig works as shown in the gif below. (so cool!) To join two boards you first …
The re-arrangement of the shop is going quite well but there was one troublesome drawer left that was full of screws, dowels, nails and other various fasteners. Something had to be done and the solution was a french cleat shelf to organize the fasteners in various bins. The bins are the plastic bins that you …
With Christmas just around the corner, it’s time to think about gifts again.These fun little bookshelves are a great way to encourage your child to start a collection of his or her own storybooks, and is a good way to keep them neat and on display right in their own bedroom! (These will also serve …
This wasn’t really what I had planned to put out this weekend but sometimes you just have to make something you need! This reel was super easy to make and I will certainly have to make a bunch more to hold my other extension cords and Christmas lights. Check out the video below to see …
This is just a quick description to give a little more detail to the build video that I published on youtube this week. Measurements for a 1/2″ Dowel: From what will be the top of your jig mark a line at 7/16″(0.4375), 3/4″(0.75) and 1 1/16″(1.063) then mark a line down the center, the cross …
Today’s build video is a rustic bluebird house built as an entry into the summers woodworking creative birdhouse challenge. This was build out of a recycled pallet, finished with shoe polish and spar varnish to give it a rustic look. The house is a completely functional birdhouse built to look like an outhouse, the side …
Today’s short article and build video is the making of a few picture frames for my wife’s dutiful children picture series. In the video I talk about making 3 frames but actually I believe I made 6 with only a 50% success rate!! Terrible I know; one I cut the miter on the wrong side, …
My wife asked me to make some simple picture frames for her new dutiful children picture series that she is drawing, of course I happily obliged but I wanted to make a miter sled so that I would have perfect corners. One might ask why not use your miter saw, that is what its for. …
We needed to build and install a gate on the deck to complete the building part of the deck, still need to seal it (eke). Wanted a gate in place to keep the kids on and animals off. This was one of the few times that I did not draw up the work piece in sketchup …
We had always planned on building a picnic table as soon as we finished the deck but we were lucky that we had enough lumber left over to build the table right away! My wife and I have never been a fan of the typical picnic table with benches attached to it. I don’t know …
