Author name: Enthusiast

With all the talk of nailed furniture, you will need something to fill those nail holes plus any cracks, voids, knots and other irregularities.  And the traditional method of making putty is very simple: boiled linseed oil and whiting [calcium carbonate or chalk] mixed to the consistency of putty. I use stand oil or sun […]

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to alert you to a new threat to the craft of woodworking we love so well. They are not as canvas- and perspective-deprived as the dreaded saw painters. Nor are they as destructive as the “make these moulding planes into lamps” crafters. But they are a threat nonetheless. Today

I am pleased to announce that ShopWoodworking.com now sells “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” a book that took me two years to write. And the process of writing this book so changed my perspective on the world that I stepped down as editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The book has its critics, and I imagine you’ll

I have made a couple of small patterns for casting in silver and one in brass but this is my first patterns for casting steel.  Steel shrinks 1/4″ per foot when it is cast, these are built to the exact size of the drawings, and because they are small there will be little shrinkage. The

Though I like to work out of a full-size tool chest (38” x 24” x 24”), it’s obvious that a chest like that would be too big for a job-site carpenter or for someone who needs to do only household repairs. So during the 18th and 19th centuries, ironmongers offered a range of tool chests