by Paul | Feb 20, 2018 | Arts & Crafts, Fabrication, Farm & Homestead
Many artists are painters, using both; oil and acrylic paints with a preference for painting on canvas. Canvas is an age-old substrate used as a painting surface and is traditionally stretched and fastened onto a wooden frame. This video shows you how to construct...
by Paul | Dec 25, 2017 | Arts & Crafts
Long before the invention of linoleum block printing, and using lead plates to make prints; wood cut block printing was the way in which duplicate prints of hand bills or artwork could be made. The best and most clear of wood cut block prints were made from dense...
by Paul | Nov 28, 2017 | Arts & Crafts, Farm & Homestead
I had 5 leftover strakes of pallet wood, and they were the worst of what I had in inventory (I used up the better strakes in earlier projects). I didn’t want to throw them out or put them in the burn pile, so I figured they would make a good base frame for a Christmas...
by Paul | Nov 18, 2017 | Boat Building
The “Build Your Own Dinghy” series of videos was produced in 26 parts, averaging about 5 minutes in duration each. The idea being each segment focused upon various steps in the boat building process. It also allowed an individual to watch the individual segment as...
by Paul | Nov 16, 2017 | Arts & Crafts
My wife Susan decided she wanted a table-top, pallet wood, Christmas tree to decorate for the upcoming, annual, Women’s Health Resource Library http://www.whrl.org Table Top Christmas Tree Auction. She found several pictures of various examples online, and...
