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A Tale And A Trail Of Toolboxes

March 8, 2009 No Comment

I mentioned in a recent post that it was a long time since my son and I worked on a project together. A few years ago we decided to build a toolbox to house his growing collection of woodworking tools. He had just recently started in the construction trade and needed something to carry his [...]

A Site Map Added For Navigation

March 8, 2009 No Comment

I just added a sitemap to Woodworker’s Guide to aid in the navigation of the now over 200 woodworking related posts. It was getting pretty hard to surf easily to many of the older ones. This, I’m sure, will make it a bit more enjoyable in quickly finding and accessing these past posts. The link [...]

A Winter Woodworking Vacation

March 5, 2009 No Comment

I just got back last Friday from the ultimate winter vacation! Was it in the Caribbean?, Florida?, the Bahamas? Nope, it was in the West Kootenays of British Columbia! Yep, high up in the mountains with the snow, snow and more snow! Those who know me know that I don’t do snow very well so [...]

A Rockin’ Robert Sorby Tool Demo

March 4, 2009 No Comment

The other night I went to a Robert Sorby Tools demonstration at our local Busy Bee Tools store where Sorby sales representative Chris Pouncy, from Sheffield, England, demonstrated several tools from the Sorby product line. It was one of the most entertaining presentations that I have ever went to. Seriously. Chris kept a patter going [...]

Contemplating The Recent Competition

March 2, 2009 No Comment

Well, I finally got a chance to sit down and reflect on the 2009 Nova Woodturners Woodturning Competition that was held last month. I entered two pieces in the competition, the Ash Bowl With Flanged Rim and the Cocobolo And Ebony Lidded Box. The Ash Bowl was entered in the Face Plate Category and the [...]

The Bowl Of The Longhorn Ash

February 26, 2009 No Comment

Inspired by the pattern on the Ash Bowl With A Flanged Rim which reminded me of a longhorn steer I decided to turn another and try to capture even more of this unique shape. If you look closely you can see (hopefully) the shape of the ‘cattle head’. The bowl is made of Ash, about [...]

Olivewood And Tigerwood Pens

February 17, 2009 No Comment

Here’s a couple of pens I turned recently. The one on the left is made of Olivewood and the one on the right is made of Tigerwood. The Olivewood was given to me from a friend of mine from the AWA. Apparently the tree came from his father’s property in Ottawa, where at one time [...]

Finishing Your Project At The AWA

February 11, 2009 No Comment

You know that old saying that you can never get too much of a good thing? Well, it’s true! Last night’s meeting of the Atlantic Woodworkers Association featured Kevin Hurst from Lee Valley with his presentation on finishing and the variety of products available. Although I caught his ‘show’ at last month’s Nova Woodturners Guild [...]