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Elliptical Tables and More They might look the same but they're not, not quite anyway. When I made the small tables for the living room of Sellers' Home I experimented a little and made several shapes going from square to rectangular, octagonal and elliptical. At the experiment

I relax into most of the cuts, let the weight of my arms and the tool work ahead of me. My task guides, adjusts after withdrawals from thrusting cuts readies reengagement cut on cut. Two hundred saw thrusts take but minutes with two hundred withdrawals matched equally in number and

. . . it takes 57 years to perfect a dovetail. Of course, it doesn't take anywhere near 1% of that. I sometimes post a video or a picture showing a perfect joint I just made, a dovetail, a mortise and tenon, or a saw sliding and gliding effortlessly through the

It happened in a flash The grain crunched, concertinaed into a cram-jammed throat so tight it jarred me. Would it happen with a heavyweight? Some other make? A bevel up? York-pitch-frogged version? Most likely one and maybe not the other but then no one predicts its happening in time to

I contracted COVID sometime around 27 July 2022. From where I have no way of knowing. Over the previous week, I had travelled to Vienna and Saltzburg, eaten in restaurants and did the usual touristy things there as well as my usual inquiries into things wood culture and so on.

It does seem that those new to woodworking are a little intimidated by the thought of making the workbench they need yet they definitely need it to get started. My workbench is a dead simple workbench to make. I designed it in the face of the massive behemoths woodworkers in

I ordered in a piece of O1 flatstock 3mm (⅛”) by 15mm (⅝”) by 500mm (19 ⅝”) just in case. That way, when I need a piece of tool steel it's there ready. Today, I needed it. You never know when you might need a new cutter, customised 1/16"