Tag: maker

  • Shop Tour 2020

    It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a shop tour, and much has changed. While I did a live stream a few weeks ago, I thought it would be a good time to do a more structured tour. Thanks for watching!

  • I Did a Livestream Recently: “Social From Afar” – Hang Out and Informal Shop Tour

    So my first live stream had some tech glitches. This was a very informal shop tour, and being live stream is a little rough around the edges. A more produced one is coming! At the end the YouTube chat didn’t refresh for me so I wrapped up thinking no further questions. Thanks John and Josh…

  • Happy Holidays from The Wood Lab!

    Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year from The Wood Lab!

  • Simple Sawhorses

    Sometimes everyone needs to do some shop builds. I used to have four of the plastic sawhorses, but I killed two of them when I built my workbench. I decided that my next set would be ones that I built. For these ones, each sawhorse gets three pieces of 2×4 cut to 32″ for the…

  • Sushi Cutting Board from David Picciuto’s ‘Make Your Own Cutting Boards’

    As a wedding gift, I recently made the Sushi cutting board from David Picciuto’s book Make Your Own Cutting Boards: Smart Projects and Stylish Designs for a Hands-On Kitchen. This cutting board really has an elegant design with an Eastern feel. The hard maple and walnut contrast nicely on a smaller project like this. Sometimes,…

  • Shop Tour 2015 & What’s on the Bench

    It’s been quite some time since my last video, and even longer since my last shop tour. As mentioned in my last post, 2015 hasn’t seen much shop time until just the last couple of months. A lot has changed in the shop in that time. Now that I’ve been getting back into the shop,…