The Devil's Bow-Ties: Today I have been working on the basket bottoms. They are made from 2 pieces with a glue joint down the middle. The wood is pretty thin, about 5 mm, so I want to reinforce them with bow ties, or butterflies as some call them. These can be......
Wood Selection and Layout: Work Bench Build #3 Wood Selection And Layout I got to use the bench to build a bench right away to lay out the boards for the top. But I removed the small face vise to put the benches together for space. So the leg vise will have to...
Mitering Basket Sides: I had big plans for lots of progress today, but I wound up doing a lot of chauffeur work instead so I didn’t get into the shop until late afternoon. I did manage to cut the miters for the basket sides and I will cover how I did that in this...
Tail Vise Fab and Mock-up: The building of the tail vise is not an easy accomplishment. I started to build the vise when I was invaded by the daughter and grand kids carving pumpkins, what a fantastic distraction , I was needing some time off to think about how I was...
