Around the Shop

Preparing to head to Kelly Mehler's for Peter Galbert's class I picked up this sweet maple log today to rive up into leg stock fo...

I love this chair. More than that I love the process of making this chair. I never stop seeking new opportunities to learn new processes to...

I just returned from Indiana with the second load of timber for the garden tool shed. We got cut short from rain moving in but we made a lo...

 I love trees. Wow. Really? You didn't know that? I wish I could have seen the massive trees that my great grandparents took for grant...

The sill plate timbers are complete. I cut the tenons on the 2 short side sills. I used the draw bore method for the peg. This is simply dr...

This morning after coffee and the usual chores that go along with owning farm animals I felt it necessary to dig out the old timber framing...

Lately all I can think about is rocks for the garden tool shed foundation. Today was a warm sunny day and it was rock stackin time. Rocks a...