Inspire and Empower Beginner Woodworkers
It’s not uncommon to find yucky, sticky sap or resin oozing out of lumber that you’ve just bought from the store for a woodworking project. Sap is especially common in lumber from spruce, pine, and fir (SPF) trees, the most common type of lumber found [read more …]
My wife and I both have fond memories of playing in a sandbox growing up. Well, for me it was just a huge pile of sand the contractors left behind after building my parents house, but whatever. 😏 We definitely wanted to our children to [read more …]
This playset is one of my most favorite woodworking projects! Our kids have enjoyed it for years. It has also been a major attraction in our backyard for our visiting friends and families. A high-quality playset (with swings, slide, and climbing wall) will cost you [read more …]
I was making a work station for my miter saw, and wanted the station to have a stop block sliding along a t-track. T-tracks are typically inserted into the a straight “groove” or “channel”, called dado, cut into the top surface wood on a miter [read more …]
After I built a temporary guest room in our house for the arrival of our 3rd baby, we decided to install a king-size bed in that room. Well, why stop at building the room when you can build a bed for that room too, I [read more …]