Although I hate to admit it sometimes, I like math. For some reason a few weeks ago, I got the crazy idea to build a mathematical woodworking project. That was the starting point for this insane fever dream. These are called Borromean rings, and I carved them all out of one solid piece of wood.… Read more If You Liked It, Then You Shoulda Put a Ring on It
When I wrote my last post and said that I would have another project done in time for this one, clearly I hadn’t checked the due dates. Whoops! So this post will have to be another general discussion of woodworking. I would like to tell you about the way that I got interested in the… Read more Back to the Beginning
There’s been a problem. I’m temporarily out of woodworking projects I’ve done. I’m working away on a super cool one that should be done in time for the next post, but I decided to take this one to discuss one of my favorite aspects of woodworking: all the different kinds of wood there are. Not… Read more Pines, Poplars, and Persimmons
Wood can be really annoying. It splinters, splits, warps, tears out, burns, and breaks. So sometimes, I need a woodworking project with as little wood as possible. Thus was the origin of one of my favorite projects I’ve done, this powder horn. My dad is friends with a lot of guys who are into historical… Read more Little Jack Horner Sat in the Corner…
Building a cutting board is simultaneously one of the easiest and hardest projects for a beginning woodworker. Easy because the premise is plain as day: cut some boards to length, make the edges fit tightly, glue it all together, and polish it with some mineral oil. Hard because each… Read more Slice and Dice
Besides woodworking, one of my other favorite hobbies is reading. The problem is, I kept buying books until they no longer fit on my shelves. So for my final project in Advanced Woodshop in high school, I built this set of bookshelves that now sits in my room. For the most part, not much appears… Read more Shelf-Actualization
Over the last week of winter break, I was bored out of my mind and decided it was time to pick up the saw again. Thus began the two-week saga of building this toy crane at a furious pace. I had had this project in mind for some time, but didn’t get the motivation to… Read more I Lift Things Up and Put Them Down
Woodworking has fascinated me for years—it has always enthralled me how a tree can become anything that the craftsman desires it to be. In this blog, I will look back over several of the woodworking projects that I have done over the years and examine what went right and wrong, and what I have learned… Read more Pillars of Salt, Pillars of Sand