Joiners saddles are really useful for securing odd shaped objects like turned or tapered legs while working on them.  This episode shows me making 3 of them and some great tips on watching the reflection in the saw plate to determine your sawing accuracy.

Anybody who has seen The Woodwright's Shop has thought about making one of these handy tool totes.  In this episode I do just that and do a little compound angle joinery along the way.

Here is a demonstration of the treadle lathe in action.  There is some fine tuning still to be done, but I am creating round objects with it so I can't be too picky right?

I was laying out a bunch of tenons while building my treadle lathe and thought of a few tips that I employ on each project that might be useful in your shop.

In this episode I show how simple it is to take a beat up old hand plane and turn it into a great performing scrub plane or fore plane.

There are a couple of designs for portable shave horse designs out there so what I build here is nothing new.  The shave pony has been on my list for a while to build and I have been making do without it for years.  Finally I stopped everything and built one and am so glad I did.  It is small enough to be set up off the end of my bench and not get in the way at all or I can fold it up and stick it up against the wall.  Sure a shave horse can be more functional for the ocassional drawknife user this is a great solution.

In this episode I finish construction of my backyard bungee lathe then take it for a test turn.

Here is part 1 of my experiement with a bungee powered lathe.

I decided to see if I could saw through mortises using a keyhole saw.

Here is the quick and dirty on how I sharpen my edge tools these days.  My sharpening process has changed and evolved a lot over the last few years and I think I have it down to the quickest possibly way to refresh and edge and get back to work.