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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â To chop mortises I first layout my lines with a mortise gauge. Â The mortise gauge scribes lines with a cutting edge and helps reduce the change of damaging the mortise landing. Â 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. Â In this post I am in the beginning stages of building a door which will enclose my medicine cabinet. Â 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 …