El Camino Woodworks

10/04/2025

Today's haul.

02/16/2024

02/12/2024

Let's go Chiefs!

08/28/2023

Made it back to Kansas City. We start looking at houses tomorrow.

06/25/2023

It's a concert weekend. with on Thursday. And original lineup with

05/17/2022

Final sunset of this magnificent vacation. F**k man! We needed this. Thank you to all of my dear friends and family that made it out to see us. It meant a lot to this old man.

02/19/2021

11/02/2020

More progress was made on the legs and lid of the watch box this weekend. For the legs I started with a 45 degree chamfer bit in the router table and got as close as I could to dead center of the leg. Then I took it to the bench where I refined the profile with a block plane and a freshly sharpened card scraper. If I had a better spoke shave, I probably could have used that. The sapele inlay came out fantastic in the spalted tamarind.

10/31/2020

Gluing in the padauk accents in this spalted tamarind lid.

Materials for this build were provided by the generous folks over .hardwoods

10/31/2020

What are you doing?

10/31/2020

What happens when you cut your short sides too short? They grows legs! Here I am trying to figure out how to correct the short-sighted short-sidedness, lol. some sculpted legs will work nicely in my experience, you can either go through or around your obstacles.

10/28/2020

A little late night design session. Some of my best ideas come to me in the shop at night by myself. Also, a couple eighth inch bits make for great spacers when mocking up.