bko

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Current Power Tool Area

Jul 7, 2011

My current power tool area

Shop Layout

Apr 18, 2011

Tried the shop layout tool--a bit slow and cumbersome but this is where I got to.

Cherry Screwdriver

Feb 20, 2010

I made this screwdriver from an off-cut from some 2x2 cherry table legs. I turned the cherry block on my drill press using the hanger bolt adapter shown. The ferule is a plumbing part I found and the...


Recent comments


Re: UPDATE: DVD Giveaway: Fine Woodworking 2011 Annual Collection

Looks great--I'd love to have it!

posted: 2:00 pm on December 19th  

Re: UPDATE: Building Small Cabinets by Doug Stowe

Looks like a great book and I would love to win it!

posted: 8:40 am on November 1st  

Re: UPDATE: Building Doors & Drawers by Andy Rae

Looks great! Love to win it!

-Brian

posted: 4:46 pm on September 26th  

Re: Fine Woodworking Magazine Goes Digital

I would prefer PDF's (like some of your competitors do). The new format is not really very easy to navigate, nor is it portable to. PDF solves both problems.

posted: 1:05 pm on June 29th  

Re: UPDATE Caption contest: Win a CommandMax Sprayer

I love this new trac-one-million multiblade razor!

posted: 11:00 am on June 7th  

Re: We're Giving Away Grooving Planes!

(You know the tune!)

Groovin' on a workshop afternoon.
Really, couldn't fit that drawer too soon.
I can't imagine a fit that's better.
The world is ours whenever we're together.


--Brian

posted: 5:05 pm on April 11th  

Re: At Last... FW Videos on the iPad

This is great news! Thanks for doing this.

posted: 9:44 am on March 12th  

Re: UPDATE: Book Giveaway: Carving 18th Century American Furniture Elements by Tony Kubalak

Looks like a great book--I'd love to win it!

posted: 11:44 am on February 14th  

Re: UPDATE: Book Giveaway: The Frugal Woodturner by Ernie Conover

Looks like a great book! I would love to have it!

posted: 5:29 pm on January 11th  

Re: UPDATE: Book Giveaway: Making Wooden Chess Sets by Jim Kape

This looks like a great book!

posted: 7:40 pm on November 21st  

Re: UPDATE: DVD Giveaway: Surface Preparation and Staining by Hendrik Varju

This looks like a great DVD and I would like to enter!

--Brian

posted: 9:38 am on October 11th  

Re: A Brand New Bench Video!

I agree with the other comments that workbench design, and Roubo-style workbenches in particular, have been thoroughly explored in my "other favorite" woodworking magazine. It would be nice to see FWW cover other, less well plowed territory.

posted: 1:59 pm on May 6th  

Re: UPDATE: Book Giveaway: Civil War Woodworking by A.J. Hamler

I would love to have this book! It looks great!

posted: 12:21 pm on February 23rd  

Re: iPad and Woodworking?

I remember getting the early black and white FWW issues and the B&W only Kindle seems like a step back in time that would not be good.

I like the PDFs FWW puts here now--they work fine on my iPod touch.

I wish this site would move from Flash based video to HTML5 or other iPod/iPhone-friendly movie, but flash works great on the desktop. It has always seemed funny to me that FWW seems worried about copying videos and so uses Flash, but nicely has PDFs here for the magazine content.

Having a small screen optimized (iPhone/iPod etc) mobile version of the site would be great too! I know others are doing this!

posted: 12:10 pm on January 29th  

Re: UPDATE: Book Giveaway: Make Your Own Walking Sticks by Charles Self

This book looks like a good one! I would love to be able to make sticks like these.

posted: 2:04 pm on January 25th  

Re: UPDATED: Giveaway and Poll: The Most Requested Woodworking Gifts of 2009

The Lie-Nielsen stuff is great! Tom L-N has been a great friend to the woodworking world by making it possible to keep the hand-tool tradition alive and prospering. With L-N, would you have had a tablesaw vs handsaw tenon shoot out?

It's a wonderful woodworking life!

posted: 12:29 pm on December 23rd  

Re: UPDATED: What Tools Are on Your Holiday Wish List?

I am going to the Lie-Nielsen mini-show outside of Boston this weekend to look at the inlay tools.

One thing already in Santa's bag is a new chopsaw, but I am still figuring out which chopsaw blade to buy. Forrest is great but $$$, so Freud looks like the value winner so far.

posted: 5:12 pm on December 2nd  

Re: Bench Cookie Giveaway

I would love to try out these bench cookies! They look yummy for routing edges.

posted: 12:46 pm on October 12th  

Re: UPDATE: DVD Giveaway: Jointer and Planer Secrets by Hendrik Varju

Count me in too!

posted: 9:56 am on July 27th  

Re: UPDATE: Unlocking the Secrets of Traditional Design

Looks like a great book, revealing the "secrets" of good design.

posted: 6:01 pm on May 11th