foughtcraft

Some good news….. I have more of my artwork published in a physical hard copy book from 2024 and 2025! As life goes on, I still take pride in my artwork and being published.

What to do with extra sawdust around the shop???
We make fire starters!

We try our very best at a zero wood waste around here, I mean I’ve spent so much time cutting logs, milling, drying then storing them, why not use every ounce we can right?

Simple project for people to do at home!

Materials:
Cardboard egg cartons
Left over candle wax (or paraffin wax)
Sawdust

Instructions:
1) Fill cardboard egg cartons with sawdust.
2) Melt left over candle wax you have laying in jars around your home.
3) Pour the melted wax over the sawdust fairly liberally to allow it to soak into egg carton and sawdust.
4) Let cool over night.
5) Tear or cut apart with heavy duty scissors (I use old pair of tin snips).
6) Store them in a dry place until you’re ready to use.

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Busy weekend in Santas Workshop getting some holiday projects and Christmas gifts ready! I hope you’re all enjoying the official beginning of Christmas Season! 🎄🎄🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎅🎁🎁🎄🎄🎄

So for every so many projects in the workshop, you gotta squeeze in some time for family projects. This one is 15 picture frames for my wife and kids photos and art work to display in our home. It’s a long over due project as some of the items needing framed have been sitting off to the side for over a year, but it will now fill our home with long lasting school photos, kids artwork and so much more.

So did some metal work this past weekend to create a storage solution that’s been bugging me for a few weeks as my new robust.tools have been taking up space on my workbench. So I decided to go to the scrap yard to find a chunk of metal for $8 and draw out a template to hold my tool rest and bolt it to my Lathe for quick easy access and storage. Drilling through 1/4” steel plate wasn’t as hard as I expected it to be with the correct type of drill bits in the drill press.