If you’ve got a question about carpentry — tools, materials, or a project that’s giving you trouble — feel free to ask. I’ll do my best to give you a clear, honest answer, and if it’s something others might benefit from, I’ll cover it in a future post
I ride through Skull Valley fairly regularly because there's a coffee shop there called the Forge. Someone mentioned the biggest known cottonwood tree in North America was just around the corner. So I went and looked at it.
This is part two of my white oak entry door series — the build, the install, and the finished door. I'm answering questions about the process rather than walking through it step by step. Board selection, glue up, hanging a 130 lb door, what I'd do differently, and what it feels like to leave it behind when you sell the house.
A walking cane with a hand-carved violin scroll, thirteen years after I sold the first one. On why handles are the hardest thing I build, what your fingertips know before you do, and how the cane spent a few thousand years as part of getting dressed.