Archive for January, 2009

Mortise & Tenon Jointery

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Previously in the Woodworking 101 section of this blog we looked at a wide range of joinery techniques used in woodworking. Today, we will narrow our focus and just look at the most common joinery technique I employ in the designing and building of custom furniture, the mortise and tenon joint. The picture below is [...]

2008 in Review

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

This past year has been a wild ride!  Even ignoring all that has taken place throughout the nation and the world during the past year, things have been simultaneously exciting and scary around our neck of the woods.  Way back in March, Jared Patchin decided to take the plunge and turned J. Alexander Fine Woodworking [...]