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Brad, please show us the build pics! I'd like to know more about your split top Roubo. Hard maple? Benchcrafted design? Tail vise hardware? Since the photos of my bench, I've added a sliding deadman, too. Steve, I love this photo. It's obvious some serious work is getting done there. Eric...

Tailgates work too. I've done a bit of work on the tailgate of my small truck, particularly in the boat yard!

Thanks for posting folks! Brad, that's a beautiful split top Roubo you have there. You went all out on the tail vise, too. I also used the Benchcrafted hardware on my leg vise, and love it. Steve, nice shop and fixtures. I appreciate the interior shots. It's always hard getting around to...

Like many professional woodworkers, I was usually too busy with jobs to spend much time on a good workbench, making do with plywood assembly tables, laminate outfeed machine tables, and maybe a bench with a couple of steel vises and power tool storage. When I closed my commercial shop, I decided...

Really nice! I looked at the FME color charts. Great colors. I wasn't aware of this company before. Small business like Kirby. I thinks it's great that these smaller ops are still here. Thanks for sharing your project. Jim

Bob, I'm familiar with the part you need, and we probably have one on an existing Grumman canoe at the club. I have to go out there this coming weekend, and will try to find one that I can take a pic of and dimension for you. I would also say that there are other ways of doing the rudder. A...

To continue with the Mission tables. I checked my openings carefully for square before cutting out the doors, and both cabinets were pretty good. The glue up on something like this is a fire drill, and care has to be taken to keep the glueup square with a fast setting glue. I clamp plywood...

Good on the Penetrol. I use Kirby?s marine alkyd, and Penetrol is essential to proper flow out. Works far better than their more expensive proprietary thinner. More pics!

Eric, I think you're killing all of us with that work space you have. What is that, 12' ceilings? Nice work on the doors. I'll be looking forward to your cackler build, when you and your son get started. Jim

Nice johnboat, Stephen! There's a fellow in Ga. that I follow on Instagram that builds some beautiful all wood johnboats. https://www.instagram.com/ogeecheeriverboatcompany/ His boats are more for fishing than gunning, but your rig has the same kind of rugged simplicity. Thought you might be...

Hi Folks, I was working on a set of bedroom furniture in the shop before the pandemic, but then we were all locked out for three months. I'm back at work, and have found a little time to restart the project. I'm building a pair of Mission style bedside tables, and a bed headboard. These pieces...

A Dremel with various diameter flap wheels or drums works pretty well. I've used that method extensively. After that, a dowel with sandpaper. You can touch up rough fillets with a much easier to sand mix of microlight, or better yet System 3 Quick Fair. I've pretty much switched to using all...

Continuing the sharpie model build, which brings me up to the present. I made a mast step from poplar. It is wedge shaped, with the mast perpendicular to the raking top face of the step. To drill the step correctly, I made a similar wedge to jack up the step to the correct angle, and bored for...

More progress on the model. We're almost caught up to real time. This one won't finish in June, for sure. I have to say that I've thoroughly enjoyed the variety of projects from everyone. The monthly workbench is a great idea, to show a lot of diversity in one thread. I guess these continuing...

Great lathe review Dave. Thanks for taking the time to break it down for me. I'm going to look at that lathe. Can't buy one now, but hopefully in the future...Windsor chair making is something I'm quite interested in, and a lathe opens that world up quite a bit. Jim

For wetting out fabric, a squeege will work much better than a roller, which tends to lift the fabric as you roll, and also aerates it. Jim

Hi Dave. Nice bowl there. How do you like the Grizzly lathe? I've used a Grizzly bandsaw (17") that compares very favorably to my $$ Italian saw. Hard to beat the price. Just curious how the lathe stacks up. Thanks! Jim Cricket

Hi Richard,really nice rebuild you have going there. I think you'll have a great, tight rig when you're done. For glassing around tight radius structures, like deck to hull, you might want to try cutting biaxial strips from your cloth, presuming you have cloth and not precut tape. If you roll...

To continue with the model sharpie- Time to paint the interior, before floorboards can go in. Also, bottom and centerboard. I rounded up our arsenal of Golden acrylics. We keep a pretty good kit in the house, but I had to order some matte medium. Straight acrylic is way too shiny for me...

Rick, I meant to reply to this before. I used to go MASCF at St. Michaels back in the mid 90's. I always took one of my sailing canoes down. Was a great event. I heard that John Ford, who ran that event had passed away recently. Jim