Posts Tagged Woodworking

Torsion Box

Andy and I finished assembling and glueing-up the two torsion box workbench tops that we’re building for a friend‘s workshop. From Wikipedia: A torsion box consists of two skins applied to a core material, usually a grid or framework of some kind. The torsion box functions as a beam, but is considerably lighter than a [...]

A Boule

“A plain-sawn log which has been reassembled in the original log form, but with spacers between adjacent slabs.” These two logs are soft maple, from the same tree. Cut and milled locally. It will need to air dry for at least a year before it’s ready to be used.

Big Teeth

My shop partner and good friend, Andy Rae, illustrates the intensity of this 60″ sawblade at a local sawmill.