Journeyman's Journal

There’s no doubt that QCAD is my go-to 2D CAD software. I turn to it for virtually all of my design work. I do enjoy working with 3D software packages such as FreeCAD, but I always seem to find myself coming back to 2D. Perhaps that’s because I started out with AutoCAD, where I spent years drawing all sorts of things. One example is this drawing of Bedford, QLB, which I creat...

I’ve been thinking about something that’s always puzzled me in woodworking. How can one craftsman build something beautiful and functional and sell it for an astronomical price, while another builds something just as good, sometimes the exact same piece, and can’t get near that price? Or can’t sell it at all?

How does that happen? A teacher can teach someone to buil...

One of the reasons this subject causes so much confusion is because there are actually two different questions being asked. One is, what produces the strongest bond? The other is, what is the most practical way to apply glue in the workshop? They are not always the same question.

For modern PVA wood glues, such as white and yellow woodworking glues, manufacturers ge...