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Wood Turning Tools For Beginners

Beautifying your builds lets you add personal touches to your woodworking projects, and picking the right beginner woodturning tools helps you get the results you want. And while there are numerous woodturning tool sets with expansive offerings, beginners in the woodturning craft usually just need basic carbon steel or carbide tools to help them learn [...]

Completing DIY Pikler Triangle Projects for Kids

Encourage child development and treat yourself to a fun project by completing a DIY Pikler triangle for your little one. Designed to promote gross motor skills, these climbing triangles help smaller kids learn to stand and walk and provide older kids with a fun prop for free play adventures. Keep reading to learn more [...]

Hemp Seed Oil vs CBD Oil

When you're looking for a high-quality finishing product for wood, Hemp Oil from the Real Milk Paint Co. makes a great choice due to its eco-friendliness and ability to reliably protect projects. You may, however, be a little confused over the difference between hemp oil and CBD oil, since they're both derived from the same [...]

Restoring Wooden Tool Handles

Garden tools and axes can be a big investment, so knowing something about restoring wooden tool handles helps you preserve them so they age gracefully. An already worn wooden handle for an axe or garden tool, however, usually requires a bit more effort and sometimes even restoration. In this post, we line out how [...]

Why You Shouldn’t Use Mineral Oil as a Wood Finish

When you're deciding on a finish for butcher blocks and cutting boards, mineral oil may end up on your list of potential candidates. Using even food-grade mineral oil, however, most often proves a big mistake for surfaces that see food contact for both safety and durability reasons. The potential to clog pores makes mineral oil [...]

Studio Shaw Woodturner Maker Feature

While modern power tools have their place in woodworking, sometimes woodworkers of diverse skill levels like to get back to the basics and work more with their hands. One of the many avenues taken by such professionals and hobbyists alike is woodturning — a woodworking technique that utilizes a wood lathe to turn the [...]

Sycamore + Pine Maker Feature: Refinishing Antique Furniture

Knowing the ins and outs of refinishing antique furniture can help you restore beautiful pieces you find at estate sales, tag sales and thrift shops to their former glory. Whether you want to update solid wood furniture to suit your contemporary space, spiff up a mid-century modern console table to hold your flat-screen TV or [...]

Food Safe Paint for Engraved Cutting Boards

Part of finding your kitchen Zen is striking the perfect balance between form and function. Engraved cutting boards help you find that balance by providing a beautiful canvas for any fabulous idea that strikes your fancy. With just a few coats of food safe milk paint, you can create a customized wood cutting board that [...]

At-Home DIY Painting Tips and Hacks

Completing your own painting projects can help you save money while providing a sense of accomplishment. But while professional painters typically understand a variety of painting techniques that help them paint a room with minimal time, effort and cleanup, new and novice painters don't have that knowledge to fall back on. Fortunately, you don't have [...]