Tools and Workspace
Workbench Height and How to Set It for Your Body
Your lower back aches after an hour of sanding, or your shoulders burn after a session of hand planing, and you assume it is...
Woodworking and tools writer
Otis builds furniture in a one car garage workshop and teaches a weekend joinery class on the side. He writes about wood the way he teaches it, slower than most guides and honest about the cuts that go wrong first.
Tools and Workspace
Your lower back aches after an hour of sanding, or your shoulders burn after a session of hand planing, and you assume it is...
Woodworking
You glued up a tabletop that was dead flat on Saturday, and by the following month it had cupped, a joint had opened or a...
Tools and Workspace
Your tools live in a drawer, and every project starts with five minutes of digging for the small square or the right awl.
Woodworking
Your first mortise and tenon joint will probably wobble, gap at the shoulders, or split the mortise wall when you tap it home.
Woodworking
A dull chisel does not cut end grain, it crushes it, and then it skids off and heads for your hand.
Upcycling
Every week someone in a maker group posts a photo of six pallets stacked behind a hardware store with the caption "free wood".