The two remaining side pieces that will enclose the drawers were finally completed. These will be held in place with pocket screws, as there is no way to drill mortises with the nails that would be in the way. …
The assembled blanks that I worked on yesterday are fully dry and ready to be assembled. First a few tenons have to be drilled in the desk legs and the front and back rails. This is the same routine as…
Temperature is dropping, just in the upper 40’s this morning. Have to work with the garage door down! I want to glue up the pieces needed to make the drawer rails and stiles. As with the previous glue-ups, I am…
We recently aquired a 2002 Ford Escape. It’s a good vehicle, and is in pretty good overall condition. One thing that we noticed is that the running boards had surface rust so we decided to remove both, sand down the…
With the tenons completed, the mortices were next. Same process as before, drill press and forstner bits. Once all that was completed, I dry fit the pieces together to make sure all was good. Since the sides are enclosed, I…
Work continued on the desk today, mortise and tenon work was on the agenda. Unfortunately I only got some of the tenon work done. Using a back-saw, I cut the tenons to length and then a…
Recently came across this card in my filling cabinet. Originally it was in the plastic with the magazine and CD on the newsstand… probably at Barnes and Noble (can’t remember). It’s slightly larger than 81/2 x 11. …
The simple desk works great, but the one drawback to the open design is there is no place to hide cables. I came up with a simple solution using 2″ PVC pipe. Take a length of pipe and cut 1.5″…
Take two… as I previously mentioned, the rails I milled twisted like a curly fries. Time to try another method, so for each rail, I laminated three pieces of 3/4″ pine and let them dry all week. Today, I surface…
My son received a set of Logitech 5.1 surround sound speakers for his birthday. They sound great, but for the full effect the rear speakers must be used. I wanted to avoid running wires through the walls and placing the…