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Paul Marcel demonstrates the difference really well within this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y7-sBONk_QIon his blog. Before I saw this video, I thought that I knew the difference, but I found that I did not. :o Now, I do know the difference. :) The video is...

In early 2010, I built two pairs of walnut doors and inserted stained glass panels that I made into the doors. I described that project on-line but it seems that I did not describe it in the Family Woodworking forum. If I did, I certainly can't find it here. For a description of that project...

Since mid February, I have not owned either a jointer or a planer. See the thread: xxx While I was working as crew on a small sailboat in the Bahamas for most of April, my long anticipated Hammer A3-31 jointer/planer arrived in Canada from Austria. On Monday, I drove over the Felder/Hammer...

I have resisted the purchase of both these ggodies for my vacuum for a long time but, this week, I finally succumbed. I have owned the vacuum for over eight years, Today, I assembled the Festool boom arm and workcentre. The instructions were sparse, but in a couple of hours with a few false...

As of right now I own 31 systainers and storage space for them has been a problem. As of last week, I had appropriate locations for 22 of them, but half a dozen or so were constantly getting missplaced where they were either in the way and/or I couldn't quickly find the systainer that I needed...

This week I am installing new tiles in the main bathroom in our house. I installed the old tiles about 25 years ago and used construction cement. Boy, do they stick! I guess that 25 years ago, I thought they would be on the floor forever. Here is a photo of the tiles being removed very slowly...

In the thread http://familywoodworking.org/forums/showthread.php?26385-A-major-reorganization-of-my-woodworking-shed-is-underway&highlight=reorganization, I said that if my workshed reorg did not work I would attempt to sell my jointer and planer and replace them with a combo machine. I gave it...

Yesterday afternoon, I was in the final stages of completing a hickory bow. The stage that I was at is called tillering. Tillering is an iterative activity where stretches the bow using a tiller board, then removes the bow and removes a bit of material off the front surface with a cabinet...

Comments about the appropriateness of the mug given to me by my granddaughter Isla have made me wonder about what mugs others are using. Hence this thread. So, here is my new favourite mug: This was my old favourite workshop mug:

Here is the floor plan as it has been for about the last four years: That layout was somewhat cramped but OK until 2011 when I added stained glass making to the types of work that I undertake in the shed. Now, that place is away too messy and unorganized. This morning I decided to try a...

Usually, the majority of presents that I receive at Christmas are woodworking related. This year, I only received one such gift, but a good one, and that is a new Leigh R9 Plus Joinery Jig. The gift that I was most surprised and happy to receive was a Lego VW bus kit. I really really wanted a...

The Christmas Canoe This is a (ostensibly) Children's story written by Shelly Posen and illustrated by Magdalene Carson. The setting is a lumber camp in the vicinity of the Ottawa River in the late 1800s. Last week, I discovered a great U-tune video where the audio is of Shelly reading the...

(part 1 of 2) Sunday Dec 4: I started to make yo-yos for three children on my Christmas list but ran into a snag. With luck, they will be finished tomorrow. Lee Valley sells a kit (catalogue number 88K161) that can be used to make a very good yo-yo and one needs a lathe for the project. Mack...

My nine year grandson Ethan would like a b-b-gun, knows that his parents will not allow him to have one until he is 12. In the interim, we decided to build one out of wood. He has spent the last two PD days off from school in my workshed with me working on a model built from pictures of a real...

With either of these two operating syatems, when I try to respond to a post or to start a new thread, the area into which one is supposed to key text flashes white very briefly then turns tan and the cursor will not go there. This has been the situation for at least a week. An example screen...

One of my many current projects is making a lamp (as described in the thead http://familywoodworking.org/forums/showthread.php?25711-Oak-floor-lamp-with-stained-glass-shade-Build-thread) About an hour ago, I finished routing and chiseling the rabbets into which the glass pieces for the shade...

I seem to be at the stage right now where lots of the next generation, that is nieces, nephews, and children of close friends are having new babies. I like to celebrate by them something a lttle out of the odinary. There are a few items sold by Lee Valley that inspired me to make some simple...

Oak floor lamp with stained glass shade -Finally Completed This is a project that I started earlier in the year and put aside for a while. Now, I am starting again and plan to complete the lamp and give it to Margaret (my wife) for Christmas.In this post I will describe the work that I did on...

This week, I successfully burned a pressed log that I made solely out of dust and chips collected in the woodworking shed. For a long time, I have been crerating more dust and chips than I can easily dispose of. The city doesn’t want them either in garbage or in garden recycling material. I...

(part 1 of 7) As described in the thread: http://familywoodworking.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25176, my brother-in-law Jeff and I installed a set of French doors in our log cabin this July. Not wanting them to be "mother-in-law doors", I next needed to add a small porch and a way to get from...