Design and build curvy doors
Doors are a blank canvas, just waiting to be sculpted, carved, shaped or curved. The technique described here can be used on just about any door, so let your creativity run wild.
Rob Brown
Rob is the editor at Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement and a studio furniture maker.
Articles by Rob Brown
Beautiful furniture and Brian Boggs
A few days ago, I was surfing around the internet looking at pieces of furniture, as I often do.
Christmas ornaments and wooden gift wrapping
Christmas always sneaks up on me. It’s a situation where I’ve got too many things to do and only so much time to do them in.
Ryobi P322 HP Airstrike 18 ga brad nailer
Untethered Nailing Performance
Build a floating vanity
Vanities don’t have to be overly complex. This continuous-grain floating vanity can be sized to fit your space, no matter how small it is.
Vic Tesolin
St. Catharines, Ontario woodworker Vic Tesolin on hand cutting dovetails, making maquettes and his understandable hatred for makore.
Top 10 table saw accessories
The heart of many woodworking shops, the table saw can do many things, but only if you have the right accessories.
Sharpening our pencils
Last summer I made fun of—I mean “mentioned”—my friend and the stubby pencil he used.
Christmas ornaments and an online wood gallery
Here are some ideas for Christmas ornaments you can make.
World-class wood art and a rough boat rack
I stumbled across a South Korean wood artist named Bae Se Hwa, who makes some amazing steam-bent furniture and sculptures.
Sculpted furniture and backyard structures
I can’t remember exactly how I came across this desk, but it sure is amazing. “Billow Desk” was made by Casey Johnson from Asheville, North Carolina.
Snow stops the build and a crazy cyclocross racer
Rob builds a boat storage rack and shows us how crazy he is about cyclocross.
Shelves: lots of surprises
In a column from a little over a month ago I mentioned how the bathroom reno was 99% complete and I just had a few simple tasks to check off my list.
How to apply a beautiful shellac finish
Rob Brown, editor of Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement magazine, shows how easy it is to create a beautiful shellac finish on wood.
How to apply a beautiful shellac finish
Rob Brown, editor of Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement magazine, shows how easy it is to create a beautiful shellac finish on wood.
Make a hexagonal jewelry box
Boxes are a lot of fun to make. They also don’t take up much time to complete and you don’t need a lot of materials. Try your hand at this hexagonal box for a change of pace.
Make a recipe box
Boxes can be functional and aesthetically pleasing, and this design is a great example of that. Whether you use paper, paint, figured wood or another approach to adorn the top and bottom panels, your project will be unique and personal.
Tools equal potential and new artists
In my column a few weeks ago (“An Accountant Buys a Tool”) a sentence in the last paragraph was “Tools have a lot of potential.” I’ve been thinking about that sentence.
Melanie Hamilton
Rothesay, New Brunswick furniture maker Melanie Hamilton on planting trees, female woodworkers and being shameless about self-promotion.
Wanted: shop kids
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been trying to bring more youth into our print pages. In every other issue (or so) we’ve run projects made by kids between the ages of 10 and 18 years old.
Top 10 most enjoyable tools to use
The right tool for the right job always rings true, but some tools are more satisfying than others. If I could add two more, it would be a smoothing plane and an engineer’s square. What’s on your list?
Care to snaptoggle?
A few weeks ago, I mentioned how our bathroom reno is 99% complete, and the only things left on my list were a toilet paper holder, a few towel hooks and three small inset shelves.
An accountant makes a tool purchase
I have been working wood since I was about 15 years old, when I sectioned off a tiny corner of my parents’ dingy, unfinished basement.
Carvings and curvy doors
No sooner had I shared the link from the U.K. contest last week than I got an email from Craft Ontario that included some nice work, especially wood carving projects.
