The following is a list of entries on my blog. They are in reverse chronological order.
2013
- Flattening Big Pieces of Wood
- Skills Canada National Competition Comes to Vancouver!
- Some Ideas Require Great Patience and an Open Mind
- #Woodchat’s Telephone Game Design Experiment
- Port Moody Celebration of Wood Woodfair
- Sanding vs. Planing
- Exhibition at Gallery Bistro
- Butternut Bedside Table
- New Gallery Format
- Being Creative Involves Unlearning and Rethinking
- Hilden & Diaz – Forms in Nature
- I Can Do That with Festool and Flair
- An Open Letter to All Spammers/Scammers
- Broken Square
- Overflow, Part XIII
- Time for a Quick Update
- Overflow, Part XII
- Overflow is Back, Again!
- Practice and Experimentation with Joinery
- Stories from Artwalk, Part 2
- Stories from Artwalk, Part 1
- Day 1 of Artwalk
- In Preparation of Artwalk
- Table in a Tree
- Magic Square Changed How I Work
- Artwalk 2013
- Cherry Coffee Tables
- Chair in a Tree
- Include or Exclude?
- The Value of Prototyping
- Art in the Trees
- #Woodchat Discusses Furniture Shows
- Roll With It
- Inspiration, in a Word
- Forward Momentum
- Interview of Chris Wong
- New Apple Cribbage Boards
- My Philosophy
- Maya Selway – Kishu Vase
- How About an Inspirational Talk?
- Recap of PechaKucha Night
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- An Inspiring Story from David Savage
- Connect the Dots
- Don’t Listen to Them (Listen to Me – at Least This One Time!)
- My Fastener Storage System
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- More Information on PechaKucha Night
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Brainstorming for My PechaKucha Presentation
- New Grips for My Veritas #5-1/4 Bench Plane
- The Scrub Plane Build-Off
- January 2013 Machine Shop Tour
- How to Read Instructions
- Deconstructed – Finished Shots and Reflective Thoughts
- Veritas Inset Plane
2012
- 2012 Year in Review
- Christmas 2012 Recap
- The Path of a Woodworker
- On Preparation
- New Item Added to Store
- Deconstructed, Session 5
- Filler
- Deconstructed, Session 4
- News About Woodworking Magazines
- Warning: This is a Disclaimer!
- New Item Added to Store
- ? & A
- Hardware Inspires Me
- Deconstructed, Session 3
- Measuring
- Sculptural Woodwork for Sale
- Deconstructed, Session 2
- Wharton Escherick – Spiral Library Ladder
- Overflow, Part XI
- Deconstructed, Session 1
- Exactly as Precise as Required
- Woodworkers in an Art Museum
- Overflow is Back!
- Black Locust Wall Table, Part III: Testing Blind Mounting Hardware
- Black Locust Wall Table, Part II: Putting it Together
- Woodworking-Themed Jack-O-Lanterns
- Black Locust Wall Table, Part I: Visualizing in Wood
- Mechanical Puzzle Box
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Unconventional Techniques at the Convention Centre
- Best Moments of WIA Pasadena, 2012
- Replacing the Pad Protector of my Mirka CEROS
- Woodworking in America 2012
- Learning
- Risk
- Maple Trestle Table Has a Name
- It’s Not All About Woodworking
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Second Picture of Maple Trestle Table, Finished!
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- First Picture of Maple Trestle Table, Finished!
- Yoshio Mochizuki – BL-B493
- Child’s Loft Bed, Session 6 – Mortising the Posts
- Child’s Loft Bed, Session 5 – The Rails
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Child’s Loft Bed, Session 4 – Assembly of the Headboard and Footboard
- Child’s Loft Bed, Session 3 – Headboard and Footboard
- Child’s Loft Bed, Session 2 – More Stock Prep
- Child’s Loft Bed, Session 1 – The Quest for Perfect Legs
- Some Fun Stats to Celebrate 100,000 Visits
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 31 – Finishing the Top
- Lennart Van Uffelen – Tafel.01
- Overflow, Part X
- Leg Vises – What’s the Big Deal?
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 30 – Preparing for Finishing and Starting Some Finishing
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Wire-Brushed Picture Frame, Session 2
- Wire-Brushed Picture Frame, Session 1
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 29 – Removing Epoxy, Then Adding More
- June is Stroke Month
- The Block Plane
- Getting in the Groove
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 28 – Filling in the Voids
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 27 – Flattening the Top and Completing the Edge
- In The Groove
- Installing a Shelix Cutterhead in a DeWalt DW735 Thickness Planer, Part 3
- Installing a Shelix Cutterhead in a DeWalt DW735 Thickness Planer, Part 2
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 26 – Installing the Base
- Installing a Shelix Cutterhead in a DeWalt DW735 Thickness Planer, Part 1
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 25 – Completing the Bottom Edge
- A Woodworker’s Attachment to Tools
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 24 – Profiling the Table’s Edge
- Jumping out of a Plane
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 23 – The Bottom of the Top
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 22 – Fitting and Joining the Table Top
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 21 – Preparing for a Big Glue-Up
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 20 – A Little Sanding, then More Sanding
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 19 – Refining the Sculpted Base
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 18 – Attachment Strips and Power Carving
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 17 – Two Feet for Two Legs
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 16 – Angled Mortises and Tenons
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 15 – The Trestle Comes Together
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 14 – Battens and Complicated Tenons, Again
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 13 – Making Things Better, Worse, then Better
- How to Collect Art
- How and Why I’m Buying a Festool Domino XL (DF-700)
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 12 – Fitting the Mother of all Mortise & Tenon Joints
- 10 Reasons to Empty Your Dust Collector
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 11 – Straight Lines on Wonky Surfaces
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 10 – Curvy Legs are Always Good
- Use Tools Properly and Smartly
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 9 – Mortises the Slow Way (or Why I’m Buying a Domino XL)
- Take Notice of What You Do
- Remember to Wear Eye Protection!
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 8 – Make Your Tools Work for You and Flattening the Top
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 7 – Installing Battens and Flattening the Underside
- Benefits of a Sliding Table Saw
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 6 – Making Battens and Installing Countertop Connectors
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 5 – Routing Pockets for Battens
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 4 – Clamping Odd Shapes and Sketching on Wood
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 3 – From Two Slabs to One Table Top
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 2 – Playing with Slabs
- Maple Trestle Table, Session 1 - Flat Boards are Boring
- Maple Slab Table
- Maple Slab Build, Session 3
- Maple Slab Build, Session 2
- Maple Slab Build, Session 1
- Overflow, Part IX
- Dovetails and Plywood
- Commentary on Videos
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Overflow, Part VIII
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Flat-Top Ripping Blade is King
- Overflow, Part VII
- My Moxon Vise with Flair
- Australian Wood Review #74 (March 2012)
- Blended Woodworking: Shop Talk with Andrew Detloff of Ravinheart Renditions
- My Tall Workbench with Flair
- Success and Growth
- Review of the Mirka CEROS
- Laser-Like Accuracy from a Mitre Saw
- Upcoming Review: Mirka CEROS
- Stephen Gleasner – There You Are
- Squirrel-Tail Palm Plane
- Adapting a Porter Cable 890-Series Plunge Router to fit a Festool D27 Dust Extraction Hose
- Overflow, Part VI
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- How to Listen to the Wood – Carving, Day 2
- How to Listen to the Wood – Carving, Day 1
- Jon Siegel – Elliptori
- Every Workshop Needs a Br’all
- A Change is Coming
- Secret Carpentry by Maskull Lasserre
- Shiny Handles Suck
- Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Hand Tool Event in Burnaby This Weekend
- Overflow, Part V
- Kino Guérin – Why Knot
- Hand-Carving Threads (to Connect a Mirka CEROS to a Festool 27mm Hose)
- WoodRiver #5 V3 Bench Plane Review – In Use
- WoodRiver #5 V3 Bench Plane Review – Unpackaged
- The Generosity is Spreading
- The Most Amazing Wood?
- Overflow, Part IV
- Christy Oates – Crab Desk
- Wall Brackets for Hollow Chisel Mortiser
- Graft Lab – Phantom
- 100 Bowls
- New Quotes from “Woodwork”
- Small Ash Side Table
- Aiming for Perfection
- Overflow, Part III
2011
- Christmas Recap, Part II
- Christmas Recap, Part I
- Why I Like to Wrap Gifts with Boring Kraft Paper
- Revised Rules for my Overflow Shop Giveaway
- Flashback: A Unique Way to Wrap Presents
- Overflow, Part II
- Overflow, Part I
- ‘Tis the Season of Giving
- Christmas Ornament Ideas
- Christmas Gift Ideas
- MTH Woodworks – Bloom Side Table
- New Quote Added – David Savage
- #Woodchat is Back!
- Rota Lab & Arte Stenico – Carmela
- What I Learned at Woodworking In America
- Combining a Mirka CEROS with a Festool CT26
- Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
- Blasted Blast Gates
- Too Good to NOT Share
- Characteristics of a Wood Show
- The Midnight Craftsman
- In The Spotlight
- Regeneration: Woodworkers Under 30 at the Messler Gallery
- Why Settle For One?
- When Neglect is Good
- Wendell Castle – Ghost Clock
- Vivian Beer – Filled with Birds and Beasts
- New Category: Notable Inspirations
- Designing for Functionality
- Slicks and Handles for Socket Chisels
- Get Your Creative Juices… Uh… Squirting
- Shop-Grade Cabinets
- New Quote Added – C.R. Mackintosh
- New Quote Added – Picasso
- New Category: Beyond Hype
- Benchroom Tour and Comments
- Freeing up Floorspace
- A Floor Covering is Easier on the Feet
- My Experience with Laguna Tools, Inc. and Canadian Woodworker Ltd.
- Review of Laguna’s LT16-3000 Bandsaw
- New Quote Added to “Quotables”
- Limits
- Machinists’ End Mills and Routers
- Removing Router Bearings
- Padauk & Silver Jewelry
- Setback? What Setback?
- Diamond Challenge
- Regeneration: Fine Woodworkers Under 30 – List of Entries
- Table with a Twist
- How to Flatten a Board (You Don’t Need a Jointer)
- Murphy’s Law
- Why Not a SawStop?
- Why a Sliding Table Saw with Scoring Blade?
- Router Collets Provide a Firm Grip
- The Joy of Sanding
- Festool Domino
- Featured in a New Book!
- Working with Melamine Particle Board
- Custom Knife Scales
- Horsepower
- New Page: Quotes from Woodwork
- Praise for the Card Scraper
- Sharpening Should NOT be Difficult or Time-Consuming
- Hand Planes
- Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
2010
- A Unique Way to Wrap Presents
- What I Want For Christmas (More Woodworking Poetry)
- My name is Chris and I’m a Die-Hard Woodworker
- Make, Don’t Buy Gifts
- Every Scar Has a Story, But Not Every Story Has a Scar
- Woodwork Magazine – 2011 Issue
- Preserving Odd Bits of Wood
- Recognizing Sharpness
- No Place Like Home
- The Slippery Slope of Festool
- Reality Check
- A Brand New Low
- Apple Cribbage Boards
- Peter Roberston Is My Hero
- Clean Your Blades and Bits!
- Notice: Change is Coming!
- Folding Hex Key Sets
- Marking and Measuring Tool Cabinet
- A Box Called “Necessessity?”
- New Work Coming Soon
- Simplest Router Table Ever
- Be Careful of that GENTLY ROUNDED EDGE!
- Power Carving Workshop
- Making a Pair of Hollows and Rounds
- Tools I Use Daily
- Straight Line Ripping on a Sliding Table Saw
- More Adjustments on the Sliding Table Saw
- Moving & Assembly of the Sliding Table Saw
- My New Sliding Table Saw
- Bow Saws
- Happy Mother’s Day!
- A New Set of Sawhorses
- New Duds for #4
- Life on the Coast
- Bench Room Reorganization
- Looking Back
- I’ve Got Mail!
- From Chair to Table, Literally
- Woodworking is Fun!
- Another Post on Sharpening
- Construction of the Butternut Headboard
- flairwoodworks.com – New and Improved!
- Lap Joints
- Living The Life
- Mixing Small Amounts of Epoxy
- The Legacy of the In-N-Out Burger
- Headboard’s Coming Along Nicely
2009
- The Reward For Hard Work
- An Announcement!
- Shell Box
- Finger Joints
- Shavings are Fun!
- Modern Art
- Gerald’s Table Leaf Storage Unit
- All About Yew
- Inspired (Woodworking) Poetry
- A Riddle
- Dave’s Chain Rack
- Demilune Table
- Treasure Chest
- Natural-Edged Maple Slabs
- The Other Half of the Shop: Clean!
- The Fine Art of Sticking Two Pieces of Wood Together
- Clean Shop!
- Some Kind of Work
- Exposed Joinery
- A Box Called “Tolerences”
- Faster Than Super Glue
- Installing A Shelix Cutter Head
- Prototyping – Bench
- Making a Lignum Vitae Smoother (Plane), Part V
- Passion Is…
- Ah, Relativity
- Making a Lignum Vitae Smoother (Plane), Part IV
- Making a Lignum Vitae Smoother (Plane), Part III
- Making a Lignum Vitae Smoother (Plane), Part II
- Making a Lignum Vitae Smoother (Plane), Part I
- My Current Position
- The Problem with Hand Planes Today
- Sharpening a Card Scraper
- Feels Like Summertime
- Yet Another Way To Make A Mortise
- Durability Shmurability
2008
- Starting to Start a Business
- Out of a Jamb
- An Overview of Table Saws
- California
- Bubinga Dining Room Table, Part II
- Bubinga Dining Room Table, Part I
- Pondering the Start of a Business
- Wood – My Weakness
- The Evolution of Sharpening
- Progress on The Workbench
- No Holds Workbench
- A Weekend That Turned Out Well
- Heirloom Quality Screwdrivers For Sale
- No Rest For The Weary
- Acacia – Block to Bowl
- Heirloom Tool Chest – The Planning Stage
