Bench Notes

Bench Notes

Gothic Geometry with a Popsicle Stick by Nick Larkins

Laying out and engraving a blanket chest

Read on Substack

Nicholas Larkins 12/8/25 Nicholas Larkins 12/8/25

Building a Shop Door

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Small Shop Wood Storage

Inexpensive storage for a small shop’s worth of wood.

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Installing the Shop Roof

Decking, waterproofing, insulating, and finishing my tin roof.

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Notes on thinning Linseed Paint

Initial thinning experiment results.

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Scenes from a family barn raising.

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Shop-by-hand: Raising day

How a small group of friends and family raised a 12x16 green oak timber frame by hand.

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Shop-by-hand: Pouring the Foundation.

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Shop-by-hand: Cutting the timbers.

Timber framing a shop (mostly) by hand in two weeks.