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The magnetic on/off switch that came on my table saw is so small that it is a safety hazzard to turn it off. The last thing I need while cutting a large sheet of plywood or whatever…..is to divert my attention from the blade to fumble around with the on/off switch…..oops! there goes a finger! I...

Made some kitchen cabinets out of floor boards from a haymow. Most boards are elm, with some birch, red oak, white oak and maple. The boards were in the haymow as floor boards for around 80 years. The carcasses are made with 3/4" birch plywood. The drawers are maple with finger, dadoes, and...

You can find my 4-part blog here: http://lumberjocks.com/HorizontalMike/blog/98002 I hope you enjoy it… PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!

This is a custom four string electric bass guitar I built this past year. It is for sale, you can purchase by clicking here to go to my Etsy Store -------------------- -------------------- Project Story: more to come later….... Here is the first guitar I worked on with my neighbor...

I had two goals for this project. First, upgrade our keychain holder that hangs by our front door. Second was to store and hide my handgun when it isn't in my pocket. Goal #1 was accomplished by building a 12×18 x 5" keychain holder made of cherry. It is finished in a couple coats of Deft...

As my planes have been multiplying, I've finally gotten around to upgrading the plane till I put together for them. The first thing, as you see in the first picture, is that I had to expand over. I grabbed a No 5 1/2, 4 1/2 and 8 off of ebay in the last few months, and I still hold hope for a...

This is a wearable wooden ring made from a solid piece of Leadwood lined with Oak. The tricky thing with these rings is getting them the right size. My method is to wrap the thin strip of lining around a stepped ring mandrel and measure that diameter with calipers. I then bore out (using the...

I bought Michael Cullen's book "Tops: Making the Universal Toy" a few months (years?) ago, and have wanted to turn a bunch of them ever since. Opportunity knocked in the form of a demo request from my wood turning club. The first request was to turn the parts for one of the Model T cars I've...

Big shout out to Ed Stiles and his awesome box joint jig. I need organization and storage space in the little corner of my 1-car garage I call my 'shop'. So there are a lot of drawers in my future. Figured I needed a jig and after research - Ed nailed it. His video easily convinced me his jig...

hi fellow LJ here is another little bowl with a lid and a Celtic knot on the knob timber is mahogany purple hart and wenge it s 8 3/4 inches tall it s 6 3/4 at the wides point it s 4 3/4 with out the lid finish is 7 coats of denish oil all comments welcome branch

This is the 'jewelry' box I was working on and made reference to in my blog about neighbors that don't like woodworking. Unfortunately, it is still not complete because I'm debating a do-over of the lid. In my ignorance, I executed an ill-conceived design. That said, it's square in the...

I created this out of necessity because the old brownstone we live in is lacking sufficient closets. KT and I have a good deal of open-air space and high ceilings but we sacrifice storage space. The loft has a small 5 foot wide (only 22" deep) closet augmented by an unfortunate particle board...

Broke my finger and have to wear a splint for 4-6 weeks. Quickly tired of the clunky metal splint digging into my palm and bumping the "enter" key on my keyboard all day. So a scrap of cherry and an enjoyable hour in the shop made a big improvement. Does a wooden finger qualify me for Pirate...

Box joint / finger joint jig Single blade table saw. I finally got to make my self, one of these simple box joint jigs, actually for no other reason, than the fun of it. I was planning to make some boxes on the Festool VS600 I bought a year back and never got to use…, but were only in my...

Made a finger splint when I broke my finger couple years ago, worked great, so when I sliced a finger deep working on a car last week and needed to keep it straight to not open the cut while it healed, I made another splint sized for this finger and the wound location. The reason I made a...

Today I went to a Finger Joint Class presented by the Mason-Dixon Woodworkers Club, with my Dad. First we watched a video on making finger Joints on a router Table. Then we got to make our own. All the boxes were made out of cherry wood. 3/8" sides and 1/2" top and bottom. There were ten people...

---------------------------------------- My work on this antique Conformateur & Formillon consisted of: Building all new wooden "L" Shaped Ebonized Walnut finger keys Building one new brass Push Pin on the top, and doing a thorough calibration and cleaning. Replacing one broken...

A few years ago, my wife asked me for a curio cabinet for her tea cup collection. A week before Christmas I asked her to come out in the shop and see what I had made. She shook her head and said "Curio cabinet, not china cabinet!". Needless to say, I also had the curio cabinet done by Christmas...

Here are some more bentwood rings I made recently, featuring inlays. The first is Walnut with crushed turquoise, the second and third are Maple-lined Walnut with Maple inlay.

I entered the 2015 Kitchen Utensil Challenge and made this utensil holder with my new spline jig. i wanted to try something different so I cut diamonds. It was my first attempt so I went very slow and everything turned out well.