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Turn for Troops 2011
This past Saturday I visited my local Woodcraft to participate in “Turn for Troops” as part of Veterans’ Day Weekend. I’ve never jabbed a sharp rod into spinning wood turned before, but I had an...
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Planning the New Year
If you’ve been reading this blog for any time, you’l know that I’m terrible with deadlines or timeliness, at least when it comes to woodworking and blogging. So a mere three weeks into the new year, I...
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Arts & Crafts Bookshelf – Designing
A few weeks ago, Michelle mentioned that she wanted a new cabinet for the kitchen to keep all her cookbooks. So as a bit of a warm-up project in my new shop, I offered to build her one. I decided I...
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If you’ve been keeping up with the woodworking blogosphere over the last year, you’ve likely heard of Chris Adkins‘s brainchild, the Modern Woodworker’s Association. The MWA’s mission: Today there is a...
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The Roubo Build Begins!
Do you remember almost three years ago when I bought ~500 board feet of southern yellow pine? I have finally gotten around to putting it to use. After moving this pile six different places, it’s is...
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WIA 2012 Midwest – Day 0
A few quick thoughts and pictures to whet your whistle for WIA 2012 Midwest this year. I arrived in the middle of the afternoon on Thursday. After getting checked in to my hotel and the conference, I...
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Turn for Troops 2012
We’ll get back to WIA reporting & my bench soon, but first a timely post. Like last year, my local Woodcraft participated in the Turn for Troops program, where customers can come in and turn a pen...
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WIA Midwest 2012 – The Classes
After a couple of weeks to reflect, this is the first of several posts to review Woodworking in America 2012 – Midwest, which took place in Popular Woodworking’s backyard of Covington, KY. Today we’ll...
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Greene & Greene Inspired Towel Rack
First month of the calendar, first project completed – not that I expect to keep that pace up for much longer this year! A few months ago, my wife bought some old faucet knobs with the intent of using...
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Confidence from Minimal Experience
I’ll get a bigger blog post out about the progress I’ve made on the Roubo, but first I wanted to share about my shop session last night. I consider myself a hybrid woodworker, but my hand sawing...
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2013 – The Lost Year
It is pretty easy to say that 2013 was a bit of a lost year. I only blogged twice last year and that was somewhat indicative of the amount of progress I made in the shop. The one “big” project I...
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Roubo Progress – The Undercarriage
A couple of weekends ago our family visited some friends in Mechanicsburg, PA and helped Chris in his metal shop, working on a kit plane. You can check out our Saturday & Sunday progress. This past...
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