Thursday, October 31, 2024
Buffet table part 4
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Making a sliding dovetail router guide Buffet table part 3
A simple joint SD 480p #woodworking
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Building a buffet table part 2
Designing straight from the wood
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Handscrew vise
Friday, October 25, 2024
25% off sale on my Etsy site
I am having a 25% off pre-holiday sale on my Etsy website. https://dougstowe.etsy.com
Using a Microjig 360 sled #woodworking
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Routing cleanly to a stop
Making Lucy's off to college tool box SD 480p
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Cutting small parts safely on the table saw sled
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
where to put your own stuff
These will have wooden hinges, and the lids are being made with breadboard ends to keep them flat despite the tendency of wood to warp this way and the other when exposed to changing seasons.
It helps in using this technique, that the roof sections are small and the amount of expansion or contraction is limited. Note that I sanded the edges slightly where the parts come together. That gives greater definition to the separate parts used in its making.
Make, fix and create... Assist others in learning likewise.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Making a veneered walnut valet box
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Making a vacuum veneered box SD 480p
Friday, October 18, 2024
Fitting a bottom in a box SD 480p
an explanation
I've received some push back on my videos that I've been posting on youtube. I realize they are not the best quality of video or editing, but I decided that the content would be worth sharing and I'd prefer to spend my time woodworking and not tweaking videos to get things just right. My point is to inform, not to entertain, so if you look at any of my videos on youtube, which can be found @MrDougStowe, please forgive the lack of entertainment factor, and study the content and techniques which I learned and refined over my last 48 years of woodworking. Assess whether or not they have value to you. If they have value, use them and share them. If not, scroll on.
I've noticed that most of the folks that watch my videos (as is the case with most viewers of youtube) drop off to watch other things well before the end. It's the times. Folks have diminished attention spans. It is far better learning from real life, as I have done. And I get that.
Make, fit and create. Get thee to the woodshop.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Cutting a lid from the body of a box SD 480p
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Making miter keys SD 480p
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Making a walnut and maple table SD 480p
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Making a wooden hinge SD 480p
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Tape Measure Magic SD 480p
Making a Viking Style Chest SD 480p
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
Viking style chests
I'm having a great time at ESSA guiding the making of Viking chests. Five students have finished the wooden part of the project while the other five have been making hardware in the blacksmithing shop with master blacksmith Dale Custer. Today the five from the metals shop will join me in the wood studio to do the woodworking portion of the project. On Friday we'll put all together as a group of 10.
Sunday, October 06, 2024
Making an inlaid walnut box
I've been going through some old photos and beginning to compile some articles for YouTube. This one is about making an inlaid walnut box and was featured in Woodcraft Magazine in May 2005.
Coming in two days
My new book, Designing Boxes comes out in two days and can be purchased through this link at Amazon.com
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Hurricane Helene and the crafts.
This photo from Spruce Pine, a community near Penland, shows the severity of what they've faced.
Over the past 30 years, one particular political party has made a particular point of denying human responsibility for climate change while also fighting against disaster relief funding. Some in that particular party still claim climate change to be a hoax.
The magnitude and disastrous effects of modern hurricanes had been anticipated by science and political obstruction has allowed things to get much worse. In the meantime we seem to be having an early fall in the Ozarks. The leaves are turning brown, perhaps as much from drought as from seasonal effects.
There is an open house today at the Clear Spring School, celebrating its fiftieth year. It is a great time to learn more about hands on learning.
Make, fix and create...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Robyn's Bench
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
My ETSY shop pre-holiday sales sale.
I'm holding a shopwide ETSY 25% off sale from October 1 through October 30 as a pre-holiday sales event. Supplies are limited and many of my objects are one of a kind. Use this link and the coupon code SAVE25 between October 1 and October 30.