EMK Woodworks

11/06/2025

21/04/2025

Tabletop glue up for current project.

21/04/2025

Side/End table done.

06/04/2025

First hand cut dovetails in an actual project. Nice little drawer.

25/03/2025

This is going to be a night stand / side table, whichever you may call it. It's obviously missing a top and a drawer right now.

It's not a complicated piece, but it's special to me because it is the first piece of furniture I made almost completely by hand using hand tools. Hand planning, joinery, sanding, everything except rough cutting the lumber to size which I used a mitre saw for.

21/03/2025

Cutting some mortises for a nice project I'm building. Wanted to use hand tools more and challenge myself a bit.

17/03/2025

Fixing and adjusting these hand planes I got recently. The No. 4 didn't survive. The depth adjust broke on it. So I put it's iron on the No. 5 and at least I got one out of two to work. A bit of sharpening and adjusting and it cuts some nice shavings now.

Gotta love these old tools. I might be too young to say this but they don't make them like they used to.

14/03/2025

Almost done! I just have to put some finish on it, but it came together nicely.

13/03/2025

Legs for the coffee table coming together nicely. I really enjoyed cutting those mortises in by hand.

I've accumulated a bunch of power tools over the years always looking for a smarter, more powerful or more accurate tool for a specific job, but I'm just now starting to love and appreciate the simplicity, versatility and the sense of accomplishment the old school way of doing things has to offer.

09/03/2025

Giving video editing a go for the first time! Just a quick planter box I put together in a few hours.