Hello my name is Jim Chrisawn and I am a fourth generation woodworker and have been a woodworker for the past 40 plus years. I have built everything from custom homes to custom furniture during this time. I moved to Wyoming in 2012 and gave away my workbench to a dear friend and woodworker before […]
I just bought the hardware for a new Benchcrafted Glide Leg Vise from Highland and I am working on getting it installed in my workbench. I have a workbench which I made myself out of rock maple about 30 years ago. The plans came from Tage Frid’s books on woodworking and the design is Danish or […]
The holiday season is here and with Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Thankful Tuesday now past us…it is now time for our brand new December 2014 Issue of Wood News Online. Every December we publish our Holiday Gift Guide within Wood News! This month we’ve got some great gift ideas from books […]
A continuation of Adrian Burleigh ‘s Show Us Your Woodworking column from our December 2014 issue of Wood News Online. This endeavor all started when my neighbor decided to cut down his 80+ year old mahogany tree. It was early one Saturday morning that I was roused from my morning cup of Joe, the growl of chainsaws breaking […]
No Southern-fried Southern boy wants to be called a Yankee, but we share the characteristics of shrewdness and thrift. Thus, each month we include a money-saving tip. It’s OK if you call me “cheap.” Sticking with the dust theme from Tip #1… The inside of your dust mask can become very wet, owing to the […]
Those of us who write for this Blog crave comments. We celebrate when one appears and we hold our breath until we see what the reader has to say. My personal record is the entry I wrote several years ago on The Zombie Apocalypse. That one got upwards of 160 comments and I was ecstatic, […]
For this month’s Wood News Online we received the following Ask the Staff question from Tom Rose: Why are wood bench plans that I have seen not over 5 feet long?? Read our answer in the comments below and feel free to leave your own answer in the comments section!