Made by John

I needed to turn a utility item yesterday, and that got me thinking about finally putting my lathe up on a proper stand.  Right now, it live...

I didn't finish in time for Thanksgiving.  I got pretty close to having the structural work done, but the finishing took me another coup...

The support trestle is all made out of old Douglas Fir framing lumber that came out of our house, which was built in 1911.  Roof rafters wer...

Like everything else in the world, picking a new water heater requires an unreasonable amount of research and nail biting.  Here's a tas...

The two parts of this table that keep the top flat are breadboard ends and the two battens that also form the top of the trestles.  First I ...

Dividers were a mystery to me for a while, but they are a low-tech, elegant way to accomplish very accurate work.  I love stuff like that.  ...

Well, I got the top glued up, finally.  I sliced the base of my thumb up pretty good while disassembling a handplane, so there was a week of...