It’s a crude and obvious joke, but what do you do with all the extra kinda-crappy chair parts and chunks of waste that are piling up in your shop? Make stools. Ever since I began making chairs, I also began designing and making a lot of stools using the leftover chair parts. While simple vernacular…
Read moreWe have now opened the floor for woodworking questions this morning. Every Saturday, I post a new blog entry that calls for your questions. You can write them in the comments section below. I’ll do my best to answer them. Please read the following before you post a comment. I reserve the right to ignore…
Read moreAfter carving 106 of these spell panels for “The American Peasant,” Megan painted all of them with three colors of Allback linseed oil paint – Holkham Green, Old Red and Old Blue. The stuff takes 24 to 48 to dry. And we let the panel sit around for a full week to really harden. The…
Read moreThe July floods in Eastern Kentucky that devastated communities also tried to erase part of the area’s history. Audio tapes stored at Appalshop were soaked with floodwaters and later covered with mold. Appalshop has been salvaging what they can, and have been digitizing some of the gems they have unearthed. This is an expensive process,…
Read moreKatherine has just posted about 32 jars of Soft Wax 2.0 in her store. She wishes it were more jars. Production has slowed because the lipstick making machine she normally uses has gone on the fritz. The switch that controls the heating element and temperature control has failed. Replacing it is beyond my skills –…
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