Did you know April is National Woodworking Month? An entire month dedicated to the celebration and sharing of this amazing craft! Rockler's Celebration of National Woodworking Month: http://www.rockler.com/nati... Clips shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/pla...
I needed to set up the foundation for the slabs that will be sawn from the silver maple log that I picked up in my urban logging video and I've received many questions on drying outdoors and settin...
A common question I receive is where do I get my logs from. So in this video I share my process for the urban logging that I do from what I look out for, how I find out about them, and how I pick ...
Last fall, Donavan had an elm tree removed from his yard that had died. The trunk was too heavy to be lifted out of his backyard with the crane that was used to remove the rest of the tree. We pl...
Setting up a flat base for stacking lumber to dry is and essential part of the drying process. It can be a tedious process and if the base changes or the stack needs to move, you have to level the...
This white oak log was the third of the big logs I hauled from a dump pile. It was the only log that I had assistance loading. Before I got to it, it was already being cut into firewood rounds so ...
Last spring, I saw a firewood posting on craigslist for some really large logs. The trees were removed as part of a street widening project. I was able to get 5 of them starting from the smallest...
Just having some fun, enjoying the outdoors, and getting some exercise. Still plenty of things to add to the mill but for now, it's just nice to get some use out of it. I'm working through my sma...
The more I got into making my own lumber, the more I really needed a trailer. For years, I had want my own trailer outfitted with a loading mechanism. After building the mechanism, including the ...
The more I got into making my own lumber, the more I really needed a trailer. For years, I had want my own trailer outfitted with a loading mechanism. This mechanism is an extremely low cost opti...
As part of my secretary desk build, I needed to turn and carve the ornamental urns and finials that sit at the top of the upper case. I haven't done much spindle turning in the past, so the urns w...
In this video I share an in depth look at my typical technique for dovetailing a drawer. My drawers are joined with half-blind dovetails in the front and through dovetails in the back. My techniq...
If you don't have a jointer or a planer or you need to flatten something large or difficult to flatten, building a simple sled for your router is a great solution.
Enhance your frame and panel construction with an integral bead detail and an arched top rail. Like this style of video? Check out my step by step instructional videos: http://bit.ly/1XRuNzi Produc...
For the secretary desk I am building, I needed to carve two fans to go in the top section of the upper case. These fans start out as a solid carving block and the concave profile is carved into th...
I recently made a set of goose neck moldings for the upper case of the secretary desk I am building. After going through the process I've realized that it's not a very difficult process, just very...
This time we go all the way back to a tree standing in the forest as we build the doors for the upper case of the secretary. There is a lot involved with the construction of these doors from the i...
These things are referred to by a few different names such as dutchmen, dovetail keys, butterflies, and bow ties. What they do is prevent a crack in a piece of wood from growing due to their doubl...
I wanted to try a water based finish for the maple top of my shop desk since I wanted the maple to retain it's natural color. After I apply the finish to the desk top, I show samples comparing the...
We had some beautiful weather so I was able to get outside and cut up the maple log and get started cutting the walnut that I had picked up a couple weeks ago. In the shop, I continued working on ...
Really getting into production of the highboy project. The lumber selection is out of the way and I'm on to working on the cabriole legs, which is a first for me but I've been wanting to make a se...
Let's take a closer look at my recent log acquisition. Back in the shop, I brought in the lumber for the highboy and applied finish to the porch swing. The highboy project: https://thewoodwhisper...
The frame of the swing is glued up and I am currently fitting the panels; the big maple crotch is all slabbed up; and I started pulling the stock for the highboy. The highboy project: https://thewo...
The long weekend threw things off a bit but the time away was great. Besides editing videos most of last week, I spent some time in the shop working on the porch swing and I prepped the maple crot...
Pretty full week around the shop. Lindsay spent some time over the weekend in the shop finishing up the cloud shelves that she started back in February and earlier in the week, I removed all lumbe...
Outside this week, I was able to get my stack of ash all ready for drying. The smaller log was temporarily stacked in my driveway after I cut it into slabs. In the shop, I worked on the porch swi...
A productive week outdoors. I slabbed up a goofy maple log and my friend, Jim, dropped off some logs and spent the day with me slabbing the big ash log. In the shop I started working on a porch s...
Finally back outside using the sawmill again. I've had the round that I cut off of the white oak log sitting on the mill for over a month waiting to be cut into cookies. In the shop, I started wo...
This past week was the Northern Woods Show put on by the Minnesota Woodworker's Guild. It was held at the Eden Prairie Center April 20-23, 2017. As always there were some incredible pieces of fur...
Max's surgery went well and I finished up JR's bed just in time for the Northern Woods Show. The 2017 Northern Woods Exhibition is being held Thursday, April 20, through Sunday, April 23, at Eden P...