Woodcrafters

09/28/2016

08/05/2016

Save 25% off regularly priced Taunton Press books at Woodcrafters.

04/23/2016

Woodcrafters announces new store hours: Starting May 2nd, 2016, Woodcrafters will open its doors for business at 7:30 a.m. The closing time during the week remains 6 p.m. For Saturday, store hours are unchanged, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Woodcrafters is closed on Sundays.

03/23/2016

Check out Festool's new vacuum clamping system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDsHm4cACwU

With the Festool VacSys, workpieces of virtually any shape or size can be easily clamped and manuevered for fast and efficient routing, sanding or finishing....

01/25/2016

Twenty amazing treehouses: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/awesome-tree-houses/

Think treehouses are just backyard structures built for kids to play in? Well, think again. Constructed for different functions and in different forms, treehouses have the potential to be achitectural masterpieces, much like castles. They remind us that our natural habitat was once amongst the trees…

01/20/2016

Portland resident Frank Howarth describes his work as, "Architecture at a small scale expressed through woodworking and film making."

https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash/featured

Architecture at a small scale expressed through woodworking and film making. Disclaimer: My videos here are for entertainment, to share what I do, and to may...

01/15/2016

Debbie Neely will be demonstrating her work this Saturday, January 16th at Woodcrafters. She uses woodcuts, or carvings, that are transferred like a lithograph to paper in a traditional black-and-white format. Each piece is hand carved.

Visit her website to learn more about her work:
http://debbyneely.com/Site/Welcome.html

In the beginning all illustrations in printed materials were either hand drawn or were reproduced from woodcuts. With the advent of stone lithography and the halftone photo process the single use of woodcuts to illustrate books and newspapers was eclipsed. Not that woodcuts weren’t really fine art w…

01/11/2016

Creative wood burning and carving projects from IdeaStand.com:

http://ideastand.com/cool-wood-burning-carving-project-ideas/

Wood burn carving is the art of carving designs and pictures into wood using heat, and is also known as pyrography. It requires time and patience to complete, as well as specific tools. However, wi...

01/08/2016

Taylor Donsker is a furniture designer from Southern California, and although any good homegrown Oregonian might hold that against him, his live-edge furniture designs are something to behold:

http://www.taylordonsker.com/furniture/

01/05/2016

Build like a girl: https://www.facebook.com/theSawdustGirl/

I'm Sandra. I renovate homes, build cool stuff and I pronounce the "L" in caulk -- on purpose.

01/04/2016

Azure Furniture Co.: Making furniture from beetle-kill lumber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djT1x5f6NYU

Corbin Clay of Azure Furniture, a company that builds a line of furniture from beetle-kill pine, discusses why his company chooses Festool power tools. Fores...

12/28/2015

Hand tool design and construction by Tom Fidgen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6nON0oejgg

We have both his books ("By Hand" and "The Unplugged Woodshop") in stock.

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