Woodcrafters

Save 25% off regularly priced Taunton Press books at Woodcrafters.

Woodcrafters announces new store hours: Starting May 2nd, 2016, Woodcrafters will open its doors for business at 7:30 a.m. The closing time during the week remains 6 p.m. For Saturday, store hours are unchanged, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Woodcrafters is closed on Sundays.

Check out Festool's new vacuum clamping system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDsHm4cACwU

Festool TV-02-VAC SYS Vacuum pump and clamping unit (updated version) With the Festool VacSys, workpieces of virtually any shape or size can be easily clamped and manuevered for fast and efficient routing, sanding or finishing....

Twenty amazing treehouses: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/awesome-tree-houses/

20 Awesome Treehouses That Will Astound You Think treehouses are just backyard structures built for kids to play in? Well, think again. Constructed for different functions and in different forms, treehouses have the potential to be achitectural masterpieces, much like castles. They remind us that our natural habitat was once amongst the trees…

Portland resident Frank Howarth describes his work as, "Architecture at a small scale expressed through woodworking and film making."

https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash/featured

frank howarth Architecture at a small scale expressed through woodworking and film making. Disclaimer: My videos here are for entertainment, to share what I do, and to may...

Debbie Neely will be demonstrating her work this Saturday, January 16th at Woodcrafters. She uses woodcuts, or carvings, that are transferred like a lithograph to paper in a traditional black-and-white format. Each piece is hand carved.

Visit her website to learn more about her work:
http://debbyneely.com/Site/Welcome.html

Welcome In the beginning all illustrations in printed materials were either hand drawn or were reproduced from woodcuts. With the advent of stone lithography and the halftone photo process the single use of woodcuts to illustrate books and newspapers was eclipsed. Not that woodcuts weren’t really fine art w…

Creative wood burning and carving projects from IdeaStand.com:

http://ideastand.com/cool-wood-burning-carving-project-ideas/

Cool Wood Burning Carving Project Ideas Wood burn carving is the art of carving designs and pictures into wood using heat, and is also known as pyrography. It requires time and patience to complete, as well as specific tools. However, wi...

Taylor Donsker is a furniture designer from Southern California, and although any good homegrown Oregonian might hold that against him, his live-edge furniture designs are something to behold:

http://www.taylordonsker.com/furniture/

Furniture

Build like a girl: https://www.facebook.com/theSawdustGirl/

Sawdust Girl I'm Sandra. I renovate homes, build cool stuff and I pronounce the "L" in caulk -- on purpose.

Azure Furniture Co.: Making furniture from beetle-kill lumber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djT1x5f6NYU

Azure Furniture Co. & Festool, ambassadors of the new way of doing things Corbin Clay of Azure Furniture, a company that builds a line of furniture from beetle-kill pine, discusses why his company chooses Festool power tools. Fores...

Hand tool design and construction by Tom Fidgen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6nON0oejgg

We have both his books ("By Hand" and "The Unplugged Woodshop") in stock.

The Unplugged Woodshop - Tom Fidgen Welcome to my You Tube channel. Subscribe now to stay connected. http://www.theunpluggedwoodshop.com/