Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 10
I am closing in on finishing this cabinet. I gathered up all of the trim, that I milled for the sides, a couple of days ago. I sanded all of the … Continue reading
Adam’s carving
My son Adam has decided that he wants to carve. I have an entire shop full of tools and he wants to use the one thing I haven’t yet tried. At … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 9
Long day in the shop today, but I made a lot of progress. I went ahead and pinned all of the drawer corners with dowels, to help prevent the sides … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 8
After spending over three hours yesterday making the first drawer, I was able to batch out the other four today in about four hours. First step was to run a … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 7
A few days ago I hit my 1-year anniversary with this blog, and this is my 200th post. I wanted to post something really interesting today, but instead I made … Continue reading
Rob’s end tables – day 4
Due to bad weather and work, Rob hasn’t been able to come out and work on his end tables for a couple of weeks. He got a few hours to … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 6
I had a few hours to play in the shop yesterday, so I pulled the clamps off of the drawer faces, and planed them down to 3/4″. Once planed, I … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 5
I only had an hour or two to work yesterday, so I decided to glue up my drawer faces. Step one was to cull through my pile of wood to … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 4
The panels I glued up in the last post are dry, so I pulled the clamps and scraped off any glue squeeze-out. I ran the two glued up halves of … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 3
I didn’t work in the shop at all last week due to the weather. The ice storm took down the power lines for a couple of days, and it took … Continue reading
Shop cabinet
I am running out of room in my shop. I need to build a couple of large cabinets for St. Josephs, but I don’t have any floor space. So I … Continue reading
Wall mounted file rack – day 2
I have waited until I was ready to install this project before I put up a second post. Basically, I spent a couple days just applying coats of spray-on satin … Continue reading
Rob’s end tables – day 3
We pulled the clamps off of the legs, that we glued up the other day. Rob cleaned the large chunks of glue off of the sides with a chisel, but … Continue reading
Rob’s end tables – day 2
Due to the weather, and a few other obstacles, Rob couldn’t come over to work on the end tables last week, but the snow held off long enough this week. … Continue reading
Dining room table extension rails – day 3
I finally got a time slot to install the rails for the extended dining room table. Things didn’t go as smoothly as they could have, but a little challenge is … Continue reading
Wall mounted file rack
Here is a quick project that I designed and built in just a couple of hours today. It is a wall mounted file rack for my mother. She has one … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 2
I had the day off due to snow, so I decided to spend the day working on one of the more tedious parts of this cabinet, the cloth spindles. The … Continue reading
Altar cloth and storage cabinets – day 1
I am starting another project this weekend. Two more cabinets for Saint Joseph’s in Emmitsburg, MD, to match the large storage cabinet that I finished last month. These two cabinets will be … Continue reading
Rob’s end tables – day 1
The next project, being built in my shop, is going to be a set of maple end tables. Unlike most of my projects, I will not be building them. My … Continue reading
Dining room table extension rails – day 2
I pulled the clamps from the rails, after they spent the last day drying. To flatten out the edges, I ran my 2″ wide chisel down the face to remove … Continue reading
Midnight Woodworking 