Working on tool storage for my shop. Gonna make some clocks. Then a few dovetail boxes for nail and screw storage. A pie safe for my wife, and a fancy jewelry storage unit. A toy box for a great niece.

I’ve had some medical issues and just getting back into woodworking. I’d like to start the clock project, but first I have to make a few planters, a couple of window box planters and a couple for the porch. I promised my daughter last fall that I’d have them before spring. Just bought the western red cedar today.

I’ve also been cleaning up my garage workshop. Since I haven’t used it in a while it’s become a general storage area.

I am making a Paul Sellers style work bench. Done the lamination work on the aprons and top, and also the well board. Hope to glue up the first leg assembly today. That will go in my new and improved workshop. Then there are shelves which I started and need to complete, again a la Paul, but adapted to be larger. As the man said, so much to make, so little time!

It’s good to know that I am part of a community of like minded souls.

I’m building a new office/shop. It’s a pre-fab 3x5m cabin that’ll be going at the end of the garden. The current (40-year-old, rotten and mouldy) shed is now emptied and I’ll be knocking that down this weekend once the electric is cut off. Then it’s a case of building the foundation and assembling the cabin (it’s being called the ‘man house’), getting electric hooked up again and moving my desk (day job) and workbench in. The next few weekends are going to be busy but at the end of it we’ll have our dining room back (the bench is currently in there) and free up the second bedroom (desk is in there).

Once it’s all sorted I’ll be able to do woodwork whenever I like! Living in a Victorian mid-terrace house with my bench in the dining room I can’t make much noise in the evenings and currently have nowhere for timber or tools. I’ll also be able to get myself a bandsaw which will be a huge bonus. Can’t wait until it’s all complete!

George.

Hi Jørgen!

http://video.pbs.org/video/2178721004

This might help.

Florian

Iv’e just finished work on my traditional English shave horse.As well as cabinet making i’m interested in green woodworking and so this is the first piece to help me start construction of a windsor chair.It’s mostly made from bit and pieces ,chestnut stakes from the garden to form the vice and legs and a plank of oak given by a friend.The next job is making a pole lathe so i can turn up the spindles for the chair legs.

Ken, that shave horse is sweet.

I’m just finishing a very large desk for a friend (44″ tall, 6 foot long, 3 foot wide). He needed an inexpensive standing desk, so I made it out of the cheapest stuff I could find. It is made of regular boat wood. The top is pine, legs are 4×4 cedar, and the skirt and stretcher are just regular 2×4’s. Although the material is cheap, it should last a long time. I used mortise and tenon joinery and it is the first project I completed using only hand tools. I had never chopped a mortise until now. The first one took me 30 minutes, and by the 12th one I was completing it much more cleanly in a little less than 10 minutes. I found the tenons much easier. I initially used a tenon saw only which worked great, but I found it mortise efficient just to start with the saw, and finish with the chisel. Plus, I don’t particularly love sharpening my saws, so I wanted to save it. It was fun. I was disappointed with the top. I didn’t have any clamps that were large enough to do it in one piece, so I joined two smaller panels and then joined those together. I clamped two clamps together (if that makes sense) when I joined the two panels, but I had serious issues. Something wasn’t right, and so now there is a gap. Oh well. After I finished the project, I ripped a few boards with my table saw for another project. The noise drove me nuts. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to return to machine work.

Thank God for Paul and Joseph Sellers, and the wonderful methods they are teaching.