Frontier Carpenter

Whitwer Site This weekend I explored a cabin site built by Nicholas Whitwer an immigrant from Rohrbach Switzerland. Mr. Whitwer lived i...

I finally found a Conestoga wagon jack I could afford. I love these things because of their history, age, and the blacksmith skills it took ...

Came across this video on sash construction from the Arnold Zlotoff Tool Museum. Great video check it out at   http://www.arnoldzlotofftoolm...

My latest project is a smaller version of a Moravian spring pole lathe. I've seen pictures of this lathe in some of Roy Underhill’s boo...

Summer has kept me busy, but I am still making progress on my tool chest. All I have left to do is make the lid and finish painting it. Thou...

Over the weekend my family and I vacationed as we always do in the Black Hills. My wife was looking for things for us to do that we hadn...

A few months ago I forged out a spiral candlestick common to the eighteenth century. While this is obviously no great feat in the realm ...