Hello and welcome to my blog! Â This post completes a series in which I’ve built a Tea House garden bench of Honduran mahogany. Â This bench will be used outdoors and preparations have been made to help this bench endure the elements. Â I’ve detailed the steps taken to ensure that it …
Hello and welcome to my blog!  This post begins a series in which I will build a sitting bench of Honduran mahogany.  The Tea Garden Bench will reside along a winding pathway of the tea house garden and will provide a place to sit briefly and take in the surroundings. My goal in …
Hello and welcome to my blog! Â In this post I will detail the process of creating a live edge shelf to be wall mounted. Â Those of you who have followed along with my blog may recall a very similar build recently. Â For this build I will be making the steel …
Hello and welcome to my blog!  In this post I will detail the process of restoring a single iron small kanna referred to as a ‘ko-ganna’.  This plane is a vintage market find that had been used very little or not at all.  Unfortunately some modifications and mishandling happened along the …
Hello and welcome to my blog!   The process of tapping out, known as ura-dashi, is unique to Japanese tools and most commonly used on plane irons.  This post will focus on the efforts I’ve made to chase after an effect of careful ura-dashi maintenance known as Ito-ura or thread edge. Japanese …
Hello and welcome to my blog! Â This post completes the tea house table and chair series in which I’m building a low chair and table of Honduran mahogany for an outdoor tea house and garden. Â In the previous post the tea house table neared completion and I left …
Hello and welcome to my blog!  This post continues a series in which I’m building a low chair and table for installation in a tea house.  The tea house table, a trestle table design which will reside outside, relies on wooden joinery without the use of glue.  While I have …
Hello and welcome to my blog!  In this series I will detail the process of building a table and chair for use in an outdoor tea house.  The seating arrangement will be partially exposed to the elements and so I’ve chosen to use Honduran mahogany, a wood that can survive the …
Hello and welcome to my blog!  This post continues a series in which I’m building a wall mounted media cabinet of American black walnut.  In this post I will detail the process of building the sliding doors, specifically focusing on the changes that I have made to the design of these …
Happy New Year, and welcome to my blog! Â Last year on my blog I wrote a series entitled ‘The Floating Credenza’ in which I detailed the design and build of two cabinets, completing one and leaving the other unfinished. Â In this series I will complete the wall mounted media console, …