Because we don’t want to waste any of God’s bounty, we’ve made some end grain cutting boards from the left over pieces that are too small to use in a furniture project. Because these are end grain, they will not dull your knives. Move over Boos, there’s a new cutting board boss in town! ha
Here are the final pictures from the reloading workbench progress. A write up is forthcoming.
Gather around the fire, kids and let ole Woody tell you a story … well, fake fire… this is a woodworking shop after all! My goodness! Who would use hardwood for a fire? The workbench has been delivered and our customer is a happy camper. However, we still owe you build updates. Here is the
Hopefully you’ve been following us on Instagram or Twitter (@FromTheHCWShop) or Facebook and have seen more frequent updates. We’ve been devoting all our time in the shop & getting our taxes completed, thus the delay in getting out an much belated progress report. There are a handful that need to be finished and uploaded. Tonight
Look at those gams! <insert wolf whistle here> In this post we’ll show how we’ve attached the front two legs, added some blocking around the vise and attached the apron with a cut out for the drawer. As you’ll remember from the previous post (here), the legs have an “L” attached to provide some
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For this update we’ll be showing you how we’ve blocked the table top to correctly space and accommodate the bench vise, laminated Mahogany for the legs and created shoes to properly attach the casters. Our customer wanted a vise that wouldn’t get in the way of the table top. Quality vises are heavy. That’s
A beautiful multi-functional workbench is our next project. As most of us do, our customer needs their workbench to wear different hats. It will be used for some DIY home improvement projects, ammunition reloading & other general workbench type stuff. Our Customer provided a website as a starting off point (much as one would
Here are the final photographs of the mantel clocks (please see the construction post & photos here). They are all 100% wood. No mechanical fasteners. no plywood or MDF. These are heirloom, will to your grand-baby quality. They are easily worth $400 -$500 each. We’re offering them for well under market value because we realize the
We tripped across some beautiful Peruvian Curly Walnut, Spalted Cherry, Tiger Maple and Birdseye Maple that just cried out to be made into beautiful mantle clocks. We brought it to the shop & set our sights on creating 8 clocks that would be sold at Christmas and hopefully make someone a really nice gift. We