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The Apartment Woodworker
Beefcake!
If you follow the blog at all (or my new BlueSky handle: @aptwoodworker.bsky.social), you know I build a fair amount of workbenches. In fairness, it’s been a while since I’ve built one for myself. But I have some exciting news: I am making one more workbench, before hanging up my cleats forever. This new bench […]
Categories: General Woodworking, Hand Tools
American Thanksgiving (2024)
Suffice to say, it’s been a very long year. I lived through some serious renovations on the house, moved my workshop to another room in the house, and generally just had so much going on professionally and socially I did far less woodworking this year than I would have hoped. But even with all that, […]
Categories: General Woodworking, Hand Tools
Updated Tool Wall
In between my day job as an M&A attorney and my social responsibilities (which are legion), I have been slowly organizing the new workshop. Recently, this has included updating the tool wall that goes with my hanging wall cabinet. The tool wall itself hangs from the same french cleats the main wall cabinet hangs off, […]
Categories: General Woodworking, Hand Tools
Tenons for Angled Mortises
When last we spoke, I was walking through my process for laying out and cutting angled, rectilinear mortises through a slab top to make low benches and other staked leg furniture without the need for large boring bits and round tenon cutters. At the end, I promised to discuss my process for cutting the tenons, […]
Categories: General Woodworking, Hand Tools