I spent some time this past weekend starting the process of cleaning up the workshop. I say starting because there is still a ways to go! I don’t want to give you the impression that the shop was a total mess or anything. It had the usual areas of clutter and things that did not [...]
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Every year at this time things start to change: the weather begins to change (at least here in the Northeast it does), kids return to school with high aspirations of a new year, if you are a hunter then that season begins, and Autumn of course signals the start of Football season! For me this [...]
Whenever I start thinking about a new furniture project I start with a sketchbook and pencil. I find that armed with these simple tools I am best able to explore all the potential design ideas that may surface. Because there’s no shortage of paper, I can keep drawing potential ideas for the project at hand. [...]
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It’s almost a religious debate: two camps staunchly divided and ready for battle. Or at least, sometimes the divide between hand tool users and power tool users seems this black and white. It’s either one way or the other, right? Well, not really. Obviously, the development of powered tools dramatically changed the landscape of woodworking [...]
