Don’t Mix Brands

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Town Buildings

The river Thames flows deep in its current quietness, skirting the centre of the small town where I live. It somehow feeds life to the streets of Abingdon when my morning cycle ride takes me through the town for my morning exercise. Of course, it’s still much quieter than five months ago, and I like…

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Build

I found two plasterboard pallets (USA sheetrock) set aside and discarded. They were strong, heavily built from solid stock, in good condition. I retyurned with my trailer thinking they would make the roof and floor for my stud framer shed. I bought the studs and then used them for other things. A sandbox came as…

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How to Handle Your Plane

One of my COVID-19 lockdown efforts was to teach you how to make a plane handle without any machines. The video is out on YouTube here. My system is a knock your socks of way to a guaranteed quality outcome with just a few hand tools and an afternoon or so at the bench. You…

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Rethinking the Future from Past Experience

When I learned to sharpen a saw the first time the result was acceptable but mostly this was because my saw was new and it was a first time sharpening for me and it. The process seemed simple enough because it was a ripcut saw and the teeth are sharpened square across with the file…

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Eastern and Western Saws Part II

It’s hard to say who came up with the first saws for woodworkers with hardened teeth. I first saw it in the USA in a catalogue maybe two decades ago where the description said, “Lasts five times longer than conventional saws!” This was a Spear and Jackson catalogue. Since then came the stupid names we…

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Adventures in Hair

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Eastern and Western Saws Part I

I have considered this issue for a long time–a very long time. I always come back to the same place. In fairness to all, it is most unlikely that I would actually recommend new woodworkers to buy into and use Japanese pull-stroke saws. I think with good reason. Looking at the high standards of Japanese…

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Handling the Future Makes Us Different!

I have rehandled many planes in my time. Once, sadly, very sadly, I even used a power router to reshape the tote. I hated it! I hated the handle, the process, the method! I felt robbed, robbed by myself, I should never have done it, I binned it, along with the negative experience. I would…

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I’m Happy!

Occasionally I take a short break from blogging because it gives me time to renew myself. I love to blog, don’t get me wrong. What I don’t like to do is churn out meaningless words just for the sake of indulging my writing. Same on other platforms too but especially is this so in my…

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Ask Me Anything Question Time Live!

My next YouTube live will be a general Q&A at 14:00 (BST) on Thursday 16th July 2020. I hope you’ll join me and ask some questions! You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/FMtIRWc8GLI (edited)  I am looking forward to this so make sure you put it in your calendar, please! It’s an Ask-Me-Anything question time and I don’t want anyone to…

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Sofa Tray Table

Nothing is worse than sitting down in the middle of the couch to watch your favorite show and suddenly realize you’ll have to stretch across to an end table to set your drink or snack down.

Wouldn’t a moveable little tray table be the perfect item right about then? I did too, so I made one just so I can keep from pulling something while sitting around doing nothing.

Related posts:

1. This old sofa table
2. 493 Table saw sled
3. “Party Tray” for a good cause with WWMM

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Back Slap Bed

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Finally Sorted My Tools

The reality of COVID-19 is that I finally found a few days to work through many boxes of collected and gathered woodworking tools garnered from 55 years of daily woodworking. Many memories floated out from the cardboard boxes to waft into my nostrils with some of the most wonderful memories I can recall. Plough planes…

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Kids Library

We have a lot of kids in our neighborhood and Nicole thought it would be fun to put out a bunch of books for them to enjoy. She’s been storing the books in a plastic tote and has been asking me to make a nice water-tight library for months. Unfortunately, we left the books out there during a rain storm and everything got wet. She gave the the sad puppy dog eyes so I had to choice but to prioritize this build. It’s a simple build featuring outdoor-rated plywood, a glass panel door, and pocket screw construction.

While we put our library on a bench, you can absolutely mount it on a mailbox post of some kind for a more permanent installation. While we didn’t register our library with Free Little Library, I thought I’d mention that as an option for those who want to have their library placed on their map.

Stuff You Might Want

• Full Overlay Hinges
• Hinge Drilling Guide
• Hinge Plate Template
• Forstner Bit (35mm Long Shank)

Download the Free Plans!

• Sketchup File
• PDF/Cut List
• Metric Sketchup File
• Metric PDF/Cut List

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Words are Hard

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