Buffet table part 4

This is part 4 of making a buffet table and illustrates routing dovetail shaped grooves for sliding dovetail drawer guides to fit.

Making a sliding dovetail router guide Buffet table part 3

This is part 3 of making a buffet table. In it I construct a router guide for routing the sliding dovetails on the underside of the top.

A simple joint SD 480p #woodworking

This shows a simple joint I'm using to connect the front and back to the ends of small chapel shaped reliquary boxes.

Building a buffet table part 2

This is part two of making a buffet table using a plank of spalted sycamore.

Designing straight from the wood

This video shows the very beginning of the design process, designing straight from the wood.

shed

 https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/discover/inspired-to-make/mens-shed/episode-one-1020677109

Handscrew vise

Woodworkers never start out with all the things we think we might need, so we exercise ingenuity and grow stronger and more creative in the process, making do with what we have. Lacking a real woodworking bench, this is how I started, and it's also a great way to get your kids started, too. Featured as a tip in Fine Woodworking #313, December 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

A friend of mine, Murdo Laird, created this short video that I'm very grateful for.

Using a Microjig 360 sled #woodworking

The micro jig 360 sled is a device you can make yourself, that can allow complex shapes to be cut for box making. In this video I describe its use in making the ends of chapel shaped boxes.

When routing up to a stop, sawdust will accumulate against the stop block and alter the length of the cut. A block lifting the stop block provides clearance to prevent the accumulation of sawdust that will interfere with the accuracy of the operation.

Routing cleanly to a stop

  A spacer block underneath a stop block can prevent the accumulation of sawdust from altering a routed cut.

Making Lucy's off to college tool box SD 480p

When my wife and I moved my daughter into a coed dorm for her freshman year at Columbia University, I wheeled her stuff up elevators and down the hall past boy’s rooms full of big screen TV’s and loads of computer euippment. 

After my wife and I got back to Arkansas, my daughter called asking for some basic tools. No one on her floor, boys or girls alike, had thought to bring a hammer or screwdriver. I sent off a quick care package and those tools were constantly being loaned out up and down the hall. I also knew what to make her for Christmas. This video is about making Lucy’s tool box.

Cutting small parts safely on the table saw sled

The table saw sled is one of the most accurate and safe means for cutting small parts as one might use in box making. 

There are a few extra safety measures to follow to keep you safe.

where to put your own stuff

I'm working on  small chapel shaped reliquaries,  and unlike my reliquaries of wood that contain samples of Arkansas hardwoods, these will be a place where you can put  your own stuff. Or is "stuff" the right word? Perhaps "sacred objects" might be a better fit. 

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.

Making a veneered walnut valet box

This is a box I designed and made for an article in Woodcraft Magazine for January 2006. It uses a Thin Air vacuum press and a mix and match veneering technique.

Making a vacuum veneered box SD 480p

This is about an article I had in Woodwork Magazine in February 2007 and features making vacuum veneered boxes using the Thin Air vacuum press. The box is assembled with rabbet joints and uses barbed hinges from craft-inc.com

Fitting a bottom in a box SD 480p

 This video shows a simple technique for placing a bottom in an already assembled box.

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.

Cutting a lid from the body of a box SD 480p

This video is about cutting the lid of a box loose from the sides, thus allowing it to open. A thin kerf blade gives the best results.