Several years ago I made this little mule chest out of pine. Boiled linseed oil paint with black dry pigment, Horton brasses, and forged co...

I put together this quick and dirty prototype chisel box yesterday. It is adapted from one that John Wilson included in his final book . T...

  Note from Zach: As I work my way back into the shop and find interesting tools and techniques to share here, I thought I would bring fresh...

  Note from Zach: As I work my way back into the shop and find interesting tools and techniques to share here, I thought I would bring fresh...

 Many years ago, on a visit to coastal Virginia, my wife and I stopped at both Historic Jamestowne and Jamestown Settlement .  The former i...

  Note from Zach: As I work my way back into the shop and find interesting tools and techniques to share here, I thought I would bring fresh...

  After deep cleaning and reorganizing the shop, it was clear that my previous hardware storage solution, i.e. piles of boxes and bags of na...

 After a somewhat lengthy delay (OK, three years...), I'm back in the shop again. First order of business is deep cleaning, though I hav...

 I've made pretty good progress on my shop addition. It's a simple shed roof frame, nothing fancy, but will add another 50% in floor...

 I've been working in my 12x16 timber frame shop for the last five or six years. I love it but a little extra has always been high on my...

  I'm happy to let you all know that I'll have an article in Mortise & Tenon Magazine Issue 9 . I wrote for the very first issue...

I cannot recommend the  TA Outdoors  channel highly enough.  I've been watching these guys basically non-stop for several weeks now. The...

  My dad always used to wear a storm hat. It was a beat up, old, nondescript thing that he only ever wore when we were in for bad weather. B...