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 this final post I will be completing the toolbox! Where …
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 this post I will be completing the internal supports, fitting the …
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 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 …