But life has been a bit hectic around my house because of a woodworking-related accident. Life has a way of throwing me curveballs. I talked of the sudden need to remove two large pear trees from my yard in my last post.

Friday, March 23, 2018. The original hearth and chimney of the joinery at Monticello. One of many fascinating timberframe buildings at Jamestown Settlement. New work at the Settlement.

This blog is primarily about quality woodworking tools from the 19th-20th centuries. I also try to include information about the woodwork and carpentry trades from those times. Get Andy turning again! This post.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017. 10 years ago this month, I walked out of the North Bennet Street School. My chess table needed to be finished, which took a little doing, but otherwise, I was out, and ready to take on the world. Either way, something else has been happening lately. My second kid has passed the year and a half mark, and I re.

Chocolate, Pilates, Shoe Making, Woodworker, Jeeper, Coffee, all around jack of all trades. Every now and then, we like to release a book without a long preamble. Something beautiful, useful and inexpensive. Today we are accepting pre-publication orders for a reprint of the Stanley Tools No. You can place your pre-publication order here. Lever Pins for my Lever Espresso Machine. Lever espresso machines have the lever attached.

This is a low table, factory made, machine carved, it was built sometime in the first half of the twentieth century. It came in to the shop missing one leg otherwise in fair condition. One of the existing legs was split where it connected to the pedestal when someone drove a nail in to reinforce it. The split leg was removed and used as a pattern for the new leg. By clamping blocks to the legs.