Hand Tool Headlines

The Woodworking Blogs Aggregator

With apologies, Norse Woodsmith articles and blog entries are not available online pending some work on the website. The feeds from other sites are all still available.  Also, there may be some graphic issues while I migrate the site to a new host, please bear with me.  Thanks!

Be sure to visit the Hand Tool Headlines section - scores of my favorite woodworking blogs in one place.

The Apartment Woodworker

Subscribe to The Apartment Woodworker feed The Apartment Woodworker
I do not need a microphone. My voice is f*cking powerful.
Updated: 6 min 50 sec ago

Beefcake!

Fri, 12/06/2024 - 12:31pm
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 […]

American Thanksgiving (2024)

Sat, 11/30/2024 - 5:30am
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, […]

Updated Tool Wall

Mon, 09/30/2024 - 9:49am
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, […]

Tenons for Angled Mortises

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 10:04am
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, […]