Hello and welcome to the continuation of the Japanese Tool Box build, part of a series in which a Japanese Tool Box, inspired by Chris Hall of The Carpentry Way, is created as a gift to my son. In part IV of this build I will be attaching the caps …
Hello and welcome to the continuation of the Japanese Tool Box build, part of a series in which a Japanese Tool Box, inspired by Chris Hall of The Carpentry Way, is created as a gift to my son. Where we left off I was working on the center supports for …
Hello and welcome to the continuation of the Japanese Tool Box build, part of a series in which a Japanese Tool Box, inspired by Chris Hall of The Carpentry Way, is created as a gift to my son. Where we left off the mortises had been cut in one half of …
Hello and welcome to my blog, this post begins a series on building a Japanese Toolbox. This box will be a gift to my soon to be one year old son, for now a place to store his toys and odds and ends, and hopefully something that he keeps with …
Hello Again and welcome back to my blog. This is the final post in a series detailing the build of a pair of medicine cabinets in white cypress. In this post I will be fitting the scissor hinges and catch to the cabinet, then finishing the cabinet in shellac and finally …
Hello and welcome to my blog. This post is a continuation of a series in which I am building a part of medicine cabinets in white cypress and currently working on the doors. Today’s post will revolve around the cut out of the upper door rail, detailing of the frame …
Hello and welcome to my blog, today I’m continuing with the cabinet door. This post will start off much like the ones before it…..with a large Disston saw ripping white cypress. I find it important to lead my cut by working at an angle such as this and by keeping …
In this post I will detail the mortises and tenons required to attach the left side stile. To chop mortises I first layout my lines with a mortise gauge. The mortise gauge scribes lines with a cutting edge and helps reduce the change of damaging the mortise landing. I then …
This cabinet, which features scissor hinges, is not conducive to a typical frame and panel door, to my eye. And so I’ve been moving toward a design which minimizes the appearance of the frame work, first by putting it flush with the panel (the panel will not be recessed) and …
Hello and welcome again to my blog. In this post I am in the beginning stages of building a door which will enclose my medicine cabinet. I’ve chosen white cypress for this cabinet and have continued along with white cypress for the door as well. This door may like quite …