Monthly Archives: July 2013

The side burner was handy for this situation.

Cleaning the Hide Glue Pot

I recently posted about my hide glue test, but I figured I should share how I cleaned my glue pot. After finding out I had been mixing some glue that had gone bad, I wanted to make sure my next batch would not be tainted in the least. So, I went to the kitchen and […]

Hide Glue Test

I just want to start this post by saying, “I love to use hide glue.” Hide glue was an interesting part of furniture repair when I began my apprenticeship. It was a smelly new tool that the shop dog loved to eat off the floor whenever I scraped the excess from a repair. I learned […]

My new Grobet mill file made a huge difference when sharpening my card scraper.

Sharpening a Card Scraper

If you use hand tools as much as I do, a card scraper is a must have in the tool box. Sand paper is expensive and doesn’t even do as good a job, in my opinion. Sand paper does have it’s place, but that is a different entry. So when I am preparing a project […]

Moving Furniture

I recently had a good reminder in how to move furniture. I was turning a table over from lying on it’s top on the floor, and the top all of a sudden flexed. This modern table only had two fasteners holding the table top to the apron! One behind each apron on the sides. It […]