I’ve been sweating getting the doors for the shop done, which has been an emotional nightmare for me (strong sense of failure) as I watch my self-imposed deadline for getting the shop online recede into the distance.
I screwed up one of my pieces of rosewood, so I can’t present all three of the chisels as finished work. Unfortunately; but that’s just how things work out, sometimes.
I wish you could smell this wood. It’s sugar maple; my neighbor had a tree blow down and was out chainsawing it up. [Read more…]
There are always too many things happening over here at Badger Forge. Usually, that’s good but sometimes I feel like I am woefully behind and it stresses me out.
This is the final, dry-assembled, unglued, unpainted, version of one of the doors.
Having a good design in a build project is key; if you’re spending energy, time and money on something that is just going to suck, it’s triply debilitating.
I loathe the whole christmas-expectation-of-being-given-things, and I usually try to break Hallmark’s lock on my time by just doing whatever I want and sometimes randomly giving people stuff.
This is how I made the scabbard/storage sheath for the letter opener. [stderr] I cheated.
A saya nomi is a Japanese-style chisel for making scabbards.
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