All wood has personality.   A set of characteristics that make it unique from other species.  Colors, textures, and smells, mix with weight, stiffness, density, and grain to define the working properties for that species.  Learning the subtleties of each species is one of the most enjoyable aspects of any woodworking project.  Alaskan yellow cedar has a sweetness in smell […]

There are few places on a guitar that catch your eye more than the fretboard.  It is hard not to watch a player’s fingers move around the frets, constructing chords or picking out notes.  This is especially true if the fretboard has nice inlay. The original Les Pual guitars from the late 50’s are characterized by large, trapezoid-shaped inlays that […]

The last project, the Shaker dresser, was a fun build.  But I always start to feel a bit itchy when I’m just making square cuts.  Mind you, square cuts and the resulting joints always seem harder for me than working with the curves and ever-changing angles that you find on a boat or surfboard. With curves, I always seem to […]