I have been doing wood working for some time now and one thing I have learned is that the saying you can never have enough clamps is absolutely true. The issue is that while there are a lot of awesome clamps out there they can also be very expensive. There …

So sometimes social media can be good for something other than making you want to pull your hair out at all the political post and cat memes. While on social media the other day I wound up in the middle of a discussion asking the question of is a Track …

Ever wanted to just try to make something weird? I feel that way all the time. I want to make something that someone will look at and wonder not only how it was made but why it was made. There are loads of chairs, pens, bowls and finding something new …

Pizza who doesn’t love pizza. I mean come on even turtle in a sewer love pizza! Not to mention they are ninjas. If that doesn’t make pizza cool enough for you I don’t know what does ha ha ha. Pizza does have one draw back though. It has to be …

V carve inlays are something that the people who do not know who they are seem them and wonder how people got the inlay to look so clean. How the builder got the inlay to look so clean and how they got it seem as the inlay even though it …

Just because you need a specific tool or item for your shop does not mean you need to always spend a ton of money on it. While yes things like your power tools or saws does make things much nicer to have a bit better of a setup something as …

Sometimes you just need to make a quick project to clear your head. In this case I thought I would make a very quick project while some other projects were curing or glue was setting. For this I wanted to try out the Rockler Travel Mug kit. This kit has …

Sometimes you must make a project that you feel presses your skills as a maker. This can be trying a new technique or to try a new piece of equipment or even a process or project that might feel like it is outside of your skill set. To improve your …

Recently, I decided I wanted to try to build a lathe cart for my shop but I wanted to challenge myself to do this in a bit of a different fashion than what I normally do my builds. For me the first step of a project is usually to get …