I feel like I’ve told this story a hundred times already. That’s because in reality I guess I have. I’ve been building wooden toy trains for a couple years now, based on the trains my grandparents made for me when I was a child. One day I started puttering around in the shop, looked up [...]

This is a continuation of an earlier posts, located here if you want to start at the beginning.     I left off last night on what we were calling Step 4, so I guess we’ll pick up at step 5. We’ve already test-fit our boards together, found any problem areas we know we’ll have [...]

A few weeks ago I started a small project to build myself a new toolbox to hold some of my tools that just didn’t fit anywhere else. Specifically my Makita plunge router and the myriad of bits it takes to make it effective were sitting wanly on my workbench, calling out to me to give [...]