In the mesmerizing video, master wood turner,Yasuo Okazaki, turns  Kokeshi dolls  These exquisite Kokeshi dolls are turned and painted using just a few tools.
[twentytwenty] [/twentytwenty] We don’t watch a lot of TV, but we do like to watch those Fixer Upper shows, due mainly because of the ideas they inspire in us, and February seems to be a good month, in this part of the world, to work inside on house...
After yet another fridgid  blast of Winter this weekend and the path to the woodshop thigh deep,I took to using a new medium to create seasonal garden furniture.  Note the small side table.
Two additional, specialized, planes to add to your tool chest – – the Scrub Plane and the Toothing Plane. The Scrub Plane (Stanley No 40) is used to remove large quantities of wood in a short period of time. Working diagonally or across the grain. It is...
I am not a handtool purest – I use power tools when needed, but there are many traditional hand tool only woodworkers out there, perhaps the most well known is Roy Underhill of the Woodwright Shop. But this week I stumbled upon Chop with Chris. Chris is a...
