Better Photos of Our New Tile

We thought we’d take some better photos (ie not with our phone) of our new tile now that it’s grouted, cleaned and sealed.

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Huge Step Forward

My dream CNC DIY project just got a whole lot more real. I’ve been dreaming of doing a 3 axis DIY CNC build like many of the ones on instructables.com, but holy crap this will be so much more precise. But that’s all its been is a dream in the back of my head for [...]

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Slip Casting On Steroids

We’re putting a polished concrete window sill in the bathroom we just finished making tile for.  There’s only room for a 1 inch thick slab so we had to put a extra 2 inches of reveal on the front so the sill will look 3 inches thick.  We also gave it a gentile curve to [...]

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Time Flies

The beginning of October marks the one year anniversary of our venture into wheel thrown pottery. It seems like longer ago that I built this to get us started. It’s been a fun ride so far.

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6″ Plunger Tile Cutter

Quick and easy plunger style tile cutter. I saw this design in a book called Handmade Tiles by Frank Giorgini. It’s made from a scrap of 3/4″ plywood, galvanized sheet metal, masonite, dowel rods and a paint stirring stick. We wanted 6″ square tiles so I cut the plywood to 6-3/8″ to allow for shrinkage. [...]

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Tile Bevel Tool

We are making some bevel tiles for a client.  I was not happy with the little jig we had been using to bevel tiles and we had a lot to make so a new tool was in order. I’ll make another one NOT out of pressure treated wood but this will do for now. The [...]

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45° Trim Tool

As a woodworker I hate butt joints, so when I tried making these slab style vases I wanted to use 45° miter joints. After making the tall squarish vase on the left I thought there had to be a better way to cut the joints rather than an xacto knife.   So I came up [...]

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Some More Carpentry

I have to say, I love finish carpentry. There’s nothings nicer than a tight fitting dovetail joint. Now while I don’t do hand cut dovetails I’m still proud of my routed ones. A whole bunch of them. All the cabinet boxes are constructed out of 3/4″ birch plywood. The doors and face faceframes are poplar [...]

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Coffered Ceiling

I haven’t put up any carpentry posts so I thought I would start with the coffered ceiling in our house that we’re building. We started with Angi painting the ceiling. Way easier doing it before all the molding went up. Had to rig a safety cage on our scaffolding to give Angi a little more [...]

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