Folding sawhorse stows away
World’s best sawhorse? It holds hundreds of pounds yet folds up and stows away.
Every shop needs a set of sawhorses. I don’t use them so much for sawing as I do for organizing parts and pieces as I mill them and work on them, keeping them close at hand. As editor of FWW, I’ve seen dozens of sawhorse designs, but these are the ones I have in my shop.
I made them from some scrappy maple I had lying around (maple is great because it can be thin and yet very strong), and the hinges are those cheap utility type you can find at every hardware store.
showin’ off: our new pbteen bean bag (a.k.a. groovy dog bed)
I’ve been thinking about getting a Furlicious bean bag from PB Teen for ages… and finally bit the bullet the other week. I was worried that it would make our living room seem too dormy or juvenile. But then I realized that with a four-year old and a puppy in the house, it was nearly impossible to have “mature” decor anyhow! Actually, it was Isadora who tipped the scale towards buying the bean bag. There’s a bookstore in our neighborhood that has one tucked in the kids’ corner, and whenever we go there we get so cozy reading that it’s hard to leave. Sure, she wou
UPDATE: DVD Giveaway: Fine Woodworking 2011 Annual Collection
Fine Woodworking 2011 Annual CollectionThe Taunton Press, 2011.$34.95; DVD-ROMThe Fine Woodworking 2011 Annual Collection includes all seven issues from 2011 in an easily searched DVD-ROM. You won’t have to hunt for your past issues to find that article you read earlier in the year. A quick search of the DVD and the article will be yours – you can print only what you need and take it to the shop so you don’t mess up your original magazine. Also included on the DVD is a bonus magazine index for all the issues: 1-223. You c
the puppy files: getting our home ready for a puppy
This is the weekend we go to pick up our new puppy! It seems like we have been thinking about and preparing for its arrival for ages now. I am excited and also nervous. Here are a few of the things we have done to get our home ready for the incoming bundle of energy. Are we ready?
Fenced in our yard. We have a small backyard, that already had border fences along the back and to one side. Luckily our neighbors didn’t mind that we wanted to finished it off on the other side and add a gate to the driveway. I
Top Tips for Moving to Denver
Although moving to a new city or location such as Denver can be both exciting and stressful, there are a lot of things which you can do to dial down the stress and make the experience a lot more fun and enjoyable for you and your family. If you are planning to move into a new home or location in the near future, here are a couple of tips that can help in making the process a lot more manageable, efficient and pleasurable for you and everyone you would be moving with.
1. Create a moving list.
By writing all the tasks that need to be done and by crossing off each task that you have accomplished as the moving day nears, you would be able to have the motivation you need to go through and finish all the things that you need to do before moving to your new Denver home. View more…
Six Board Blanket Chest
Matt and I are just getting ready to unload our bounty of Eastern White Pine. Here we each have chose a couple hundred board feet of boards. We even had some extra to sell to a couple colleagues.
I along with several of my fellow colleagues we had a rare opportunity to purchase some local Eastern White Pine from one of the Homebuilding editors this summer. He had a neighbor who wanted to cut down a few very large trees adjacent to his property. Ceasing on this he arranged to have the large trees cut down and sawn up for lumber at a mill in northern Connecticut. Then to defer the costs he was willing to sell the boards at a very reasonable price. Hence