When we built the shop in 2008, I included radiant floor heat in the design. It's a premium ...

It's nice to see a check mark by this to-do item. As I become more retired, I want to do more ...

When I built the shop in 2008, I installed a Clearvue dust collection system. That system has ...

I know. It's a small thing. And I still get a kick out of it.

In 1982 I was 40 years younger, and had (apparently) about four times the energy that I have today.

Celebrating my 69th birthday a bit early, I acquired a new Sawstop tablesaw. The Sawstop is known ...

A singer sewing machine is not a piano. But I accepted the challenge of restoring a sewing machine ...

I've always "liked" my Rikon bandsaw. Now, I just might learn to love it.

It was a warm summer day and my brother Bob and I were trying to convince our parents that we ...

She’s an expensive dog, and worth it! Now complete is a new walkway to the shop, and concrete steps.

Yes, I can.

It's done. Steps for the east side of the deck. The deck was completed 5 years ago. Pandemic = ...

You might say that I've been thinking about building some steps on the east side of the deck for a ...

Quarantine Project: the Bebop fence. For years, it has been known, "You can't have a dog. We don't ...

I bought a collection of quick change driver bits: square, phillips, hex, torx, and straight. Some ...

Yesterday I got an oops text from my wife:

I work in wood.  But for years I've wanted to get into the machinist's world too.   A few months ...

My bargain shopping wife found a large "workbench" -- a collection of solid cabinets mounted on an ...

This morning I installed smoke detectors in the shop, which are interconnected with detectors in ...

Yesterday found us in Loretto, Tennessee, where my great-grandfather John Henkel immigrated with ...

I started the day with a sheet of plywood.  I ended the day with a much needed and very useful ...

The past few days, the woodshop has been put to work on a project that is not a piano!    In ...

I've refined the design of the tablesaw outfeed table to include details for the router table and ...

I recently took the time to re-learn Sketchup. I'm still inefficient with it, but its capability ...

We're gearing up for deck building this summer.   Sketchup has been invaluable as a design tool.  ...

When the neighbors built a white vinyl fence along the north property line a triangle of land was ...

I recently decided to upgrade from the crude key leveling blocks I had been using, and enjoyed ...

Erin designed a coffee table that we built in the shop in August.   This weekend was the next road ...

The shop really isn't large enough for the new band saw to have a permanent location on the shop ...

I said I'd buy it, if it ever went on sale.  I guess someone at Woodcraft heard me.    It came ...

I posted photos of the foundation pour 18 months ago. In the last month, I've made a pretty ...

Ev was OK with that, but he did think that the boss fell a little short of the mark when he bought ...

In my early years of woodworking and cabinet building, I spent a lot of time assembling things on ...

Admitting my amateur status, woodturning is new to me! I'm going forward boldly, and I can see ...

My friend Jim has been busy with his new mini lathe making pens and other turnings. His enthusiasm ...

Last week I went to the Davis School District surplus sale hoping to find some cabinets for the ...

I keep plugging away. After hanging ceiling drywall and fifteen light fixtures, I'm pretty good at ...

My shop is too big! OK. That's the last time you'll hear that. Though the work continues it seems ...

A milestone! I finished the rough-in electrical last night and had the inspection this morning. ...

I got out to the shop early this morning to work on wiring. But it was about 37 degrees, and hmmm, ...

Well, the door is hung, and winter can come. I just need to do the weather stripping, and we ...

I figured that the new shop should have a fine door that speaks to what goes on inside. Sometime ...

To complete the exterior, we just need the overhead and entry door. I'm working on the entry door ...

Well, it's not done, but the space definitely exists now! Todd Thurgood was the framer. Who could ...

The permit was issued, and last week, the site was excavated and footings where poured. The ...

I had once dreamed of building a timber-framed woodshop, but time and locale prevent it. Design ...

In September, I posted here observations about a barn in Menlo, and the thoughts it spurred in me. ...