Makery – Page 2 – Wanderings in the Labyrinth

an outdoor woodworking shop, set up on a bed of gravel, probably under a deck or patio attached to a house. On the left is a low, Roman-style woodworking bench as described by Christopher Schwarz in the book INGENIOUS MECHANICKS; on the right is a six-board tool chest. In the background is a saw bench and a saw bent, for setting up boards for easy hand-sawing.

29 May 202529 May 2025 Andrew

Wood: mobile base

A stuffed toy ball of white felt and colorful embroidery, covered with astrological symbols, about 4-5 inches in diameter., It rests on the tongue of a wooden cutting board against a background of green lawn. The symbol for Sagittarius is showing.

27 May 202527 May 2025 Andrew

Sew / Embroider – Gonk

an outdoor woodworking shop, set up on a bed of gravel, probably under a deck or patio attached to a house. On the left is a low, Roman-style woodworking bench as described by Christopher Schwarz in the book INGENIOUS MECHANICKS; on the right is a six-board tool chest. In the background is a saw bench and a saw bent, for setting up boards for easy hand-sawing.

3 May 20253 May 2025 Andrew

Wood: fronting

an outdoor woodworking shop, set up on a bed of gravel, probably under a deck or patio attached to a house. On the left is a low, Roman-style woodworking bench as described by Christopher Schwarz in the book INGENIOUS MECHANICKS; on the right is a six-board tool chest. In the background is a saw bench and a saw bent, for setting up boards for easy hand-sawing.

2 May 20252 May 2025 Andrew

Wood: Goodly Progress

an outdoor woodworking shop, set up on a bed of gravel, probably under a deck or patio attached to a house. On the left is a low, Roman-style woodworking bench as described by Christopher Schwarz in the book INGENIOUS MECHANICKS; on the right is a six-board tool chest. In the background is a saw bench and a saw bent, for setting up boards for easy hand-sawing.

1 May 20251 May 2025 Andrew

Wood: case work

an outdoor woodworking shop, set up on a bed of gravel, probably under a deck or patio attached to a house. On the left is a low, Roman-style woodworking bench as described by Christopher Schwarz in the book INGENIOUS MECHANICKS; on the right is a six-board tool chest. In the background is a saw bench and a saw bent, for setting up boards for easy hand-sawing.

30 April 202530 April 2025 Andrew

Wood: Dovetails

image of a gray work surface, with twenty small-to-medium drawstring bags on it, made of various colors of linen: gold, green, black and blue.

12 January 202512 January 2025 Andrew

Bagging alphabets

A till is a sliding box in the top of a tool chest; and a tool rack is a board with lots of 1/2" holes drilled in it so that it can hold chisels, screwdrivers, marking gauges, hammers, and other small tools in a vertical position. Silverpoint image of an empty till in a wooden chest; with a tool rack just visible in the shadow behind the till, all within a tool chest.

17 November 202417 November 2024 Andrew

Wood: Till and Tool Rack

silverpoint photograph of an assembled saw-bent (a little wooden frame paired with a saw bench for hand-sawing boards of wood)

16 November 202416 November 2024 Andrew

Wood: Framing Up

7 November 20247 November 2024 Andrew

Wood: shave and fit tenon