Frontier Carpenter

It just occurred to me today that I’ve reached a tipping point with concerns to power and hand tools. This afternoon I was replacing som...

I’ve been planning on making a treadle lathe for awhile now. The design I settled on will have the drive wheel off to the side to accommod...

I’m somewhat of a complicated guy, one part of me is interested in the Stone Age world the other the eighteenth century. I can make and ...

With the wooden thumbscrew finished I turned my attention to constructing a much needed adjustable mortise gauge. The style I decided on h...

Finished Product Threaded wooden screws can be incorporated into a multitude of tasks and tools. In an earlier post I showed a plow p...

My churn is 10" excluding handle by 5.5" Butter is not a bad word! Unfortunately those crazy scientist’s and medical doctor...

I came across this movie the other day produced by Ken Koons entitled Ore to Axe . I rented it at Amazon, but was so impressed with it I’m...