woodworking – 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.

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

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

A tenon and mortise shown together against a background of dry leaves.

6 November 20246 November 2024 Andrew

Wood: tenon

Silverpoint style photograph of mortising. A mortise is a square or rectangular hole cut in wood to receive a similarly shaped piece of wood called a tenon.

5 November 20245 November 2024 Andrew

Wood: mortising

Silverpoint photograph of the edge of a board of wood, with a square marked in the middle of it in pencil: four edges of a rectangular box 5/8" high (top to bottom) and 2" long (left to right), centered on a median line. The middle part of the penciled rectangle is scribbled out, and there are several punch holes in the space.

4 November 20244 November 2024 Andrew

Wood: Marking

black and white photograph of a wood vise-clamp holding two boards, with the handle of a smoothing plane in the background, and wood-shavings heaped around it.

3 November 20243 November 2024 Andrew

Wood: saw-bent

6 October 20246 October 2024 Andrew

Wood: Sawbench