The daily dribble from my workshop. Saturday, May 16, 2015. Another exciting Amana hand tool event and so for it has been much bigger than the first one. This one is so big that it is spread out over three buildings. I got there at 0915 and the line to get into the barn was out to the road already. I started here with Jarrod Stone. What could be more fun than watching a guy make a drinking cup on a pole lathe? Another windsor chair maker.

This week there are about 20 different pieces of writing floating around my brain and four of them are actually open in windows on my computer, each in a different state of progress. One is a set of notes on something I am researching. One is resting, and one old project keeps tickling my brain asking for me to return. So, using everything I know about writing a.

Blue Spruce Chisels, Nice Tray. Robert sent me these pictures of a nice chisel tray he got round to making for his set of Blue Spruce chisels. The woods are curly maple and Pau Ferro which was a close a match as he had to the lovely cocobolo handles. Wednesday, 14 March 2018. Monday, 12 March 2018.

Sculptural Woodwork made by Chris Wong in Vancouver, BC. 30 Things Not To Say. Subscribe to my blog using the form at the bottom of this page to be notified when new items are released. Click on any image for information and additional views.

Random thoughts on software and metal fabrication. All my personal blogging is now at mcglynnonmaking. Recently I had several job interviews, some for a Rails developer role and some for management roles. It was an interesting experience and there were a handful of things I noticed.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018. The tenons were all made with hand tools, sawing the shoulders, chiseling off the waste and refining them with a shoulder plane and a router plane. Because the mortises are so accurate and uniform, it goes quickly. Monday, April 2, 2018. Chris Schwarz made one for a Popular Woodwo.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014. God bless you all for being his family. Wednesday, September 10, 2014. And that new obsession is spoon carving.

Saturday, July 4, 2015. Cherry logs have started turning up at the log dump in droves over the past few years. Some are diseased, but others are in beautiful condition. The cherry street trees in Vancouver are not the well-known black cherry of eastern Canada and the US, or commercial cherries grown for fruit. Rather they are are almost entirely cultivars of Prunus serrulata, Japanese flowering cherries, grown for their outstanding blossoms.