You may or may not have heard of SmartFlix before. However, if you enjoy instructional DVD’s about woodworking, woodturning and/or many other subjects, you should definitely check it out. SmartFlix is a DVD rental service much like NetFlix is for movies. The difference is that SmartFlix rents harder to find DVD’s relating to specialty arts [...]
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Building on the information that I gleaned from the Graham Blackburn workshop that I attended, I wanted to go into a little more depth on the topics of design that were discussed. Very often when woodworkers think about designing a piece of furniture they only think about things like joinery, style and the finish of [...]
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This weekend marked the opening of the season for the Rochester Woodworkers Society, the woodworking club that I belong to. As I have mentioned before, each year the club hosts several national woodworkers for lectures and workshops. The first talk of this season was given by Graham Blackburn. Graham has an interesting background. Born in [...]
When you’re writing about woodworking and design and documenting your projects, time sure flies. It was one year ago on Labor Day weekend that I started this blogging experiment that I call The Craftsman’s Path. The upcoming weekend marks the one year anniversary of this effort! Since that day, I have written about many things: [...]
Previously, I wrote about the merits of using rough stock in your woodworking. In that post I discussed the benefits offered to every woodworker through milling your own boards from rough to ready. What I did not cover is how to go about preparing rough stock for use on a project. The basic steps from [...]
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