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It was late at night and I heard a ruckus, so I ran downstairs to see what the fuss was.  Imagine my surprise when I see a Workshop Gremlin building stuff at my workbench!   Here he is holding a shoddily constructed birdhouse.  Workshop Gremlins aren't known for their craftsmanship. If you can successfully catch a Workshop Gremlin - no small feat - he's bound by an ancient agreement to

Base Frame complete. Leg Mortise & Tenons done. Done!  (just needs poly) 2 coats of Water-based Polycrylic + Paste Wax I think this took 2 weeks total.  Not too shabby for me.  I usually take a lot longer to make stuff, but Christmas is fast approaching. The leg joint is really tricky to mark.  Wow.  What a pain :P  Took me a couple days to get the four legs fitted into their

More or less. All parts rough milled and ready for the machine shop. Tenons, Mortises, Final Lengths, and Final Thicknesses.  Done. Now I need to clean out the waste on those benchtop mortises, cut the shelf planks and shiplap them, mark and cut the tenons on the tops of the legs and assemble.  Maybe one more weekend at this pace. The best part of this is that it's going to be the

I've spent the past 4 weekends helping build the foundation for the house my brother is building.  I do not enjoy foundation work. Now that the walls and pad concrete has been poured, he's onto thinking about framing the first floor.  He asked me to take the measurements with him and put it into SketchUp so he can have a cutlist to work off of. This.  Took.  Forever.  OMG.  I didn't know how to

We have a pepper and salt grinder on our dining table.  They have a bad case of dandruff, shedding salt and pepper onto the table all the time.  Annoys me.  So I'm making a box to put them in, to contain and hide the dandruff. It's sized to hold standard 6.5" x 6.5" paper napkins on the flat, a bunch of wooden drink coasters, and the salt and pepper mills.  That's it.   3/8" thick walls and