Miller Dowels Mini-XWhen things go wrong in the shop, one of the crutches I lean on are Miller Dowels Mini-X thingies. These are stepped and ribbed dowels that you install with a super-insanely-good stepped drill bit. How to use them: First drill a hole with the bit to reinforce a questionable joint. Then tap in…
Read moreWASA Red Kitchen ShearsThese kitchen scissors are part of a (perhaps imagined) memory. One of my grandparents owned the perfect pair of kitchen shears. Used to slice apart meat and bone, these shears are just perfect and balanced in every way. Eventually I found them – I think. The WASA Inox shears are like holding…
Read moreCastile Soap Cream for FinishingI advocate using Castile soap for finishing some pieces of furniture. It’s non-toxic, easy to repair and gives light-colored woods a whitish glow. Never heard of soap finish? I’ve written and recorded a lot about it. Here’s an introduction. The only problem people ever have with soap finish is making it….
Read moreJapanese ‘Bank Paper’I write a lot of stuff down every day on paper – sketches of future projects, notes on joinery, Megan’s lunch order, and dimensions, dimensions, dimensions. For the last decade I’ve mostly used the free throw-away pads that our lumber supplier would bring us every month for my scratchings. When the pandemic hit,…
Read moreWe are extending our free shipping offer until midnight Nov. 24 for one reason: It’s working. While most “inventory reduction” sales verge on bunkum, we are offering free shipping for one single reason: to reduce our inventory. Right now, the Anthe building is loaded to its maximum capacity (as per a report from our structural…
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