Oregon Woodworker by Andy Margeson

Each year, we try to give friends and family a small handmade item along with an Oregon product.  This year we decided on hazelnuts, or filberts.  The US is the third largest producer of filberts after Turkey and Italy and virtually all of the US crop...

This post is going to be a little different because I want to share some videos from some other craftsman, one of which is woodworking and one isn't.
The first is the Engels Coach Shop in Montana.  He restores or reproduces heavy horse-drawn wagons, makes wooden wheels etc.  Right now he is making very heavy wheels for some spanish cannons from Puerto Rico.  They shipped him a large pallet of mahogany...

I have seen a number of videos about whirligigs recently and they got me interested in creating something similar.  I'm especially interested in the windmill portion of them.
From what I have seen, whirligig makers start by making a hub with slots cut in it to hold the blades.  Some say that 35 degrees is the best angle so that is what I used.   I wanted 8 blades, so the slots are narrowly spaced.  To make it, I cut out an...

When I put the Stickley sideboard aside last spring, the carcase was done and I only had the drawers left to make; with the arrival of fall, it was time to get back at it.  As I wrote in the last post, the drawers went well and it was time for finish...