Welcome to the Maple Grove Woodworks blog. Maple Grove Woodworks is my own personal woodworking business. Being a professional woodworker has long been a dream of mine. I am not quite 100% there yet, as I still have my day job.
My day job actually helps my woodowrking business. I use a Computer Aided Design (CAD) workstation to design tools for the plastic injection molding industry. I have been able to design projects on my CAD workstation during lunch hours, or coming into work early. This has been a huge help when figuring out complicated joints.
The CAD software I use is called Unigraphics. It is quite a high end piece of software. I don’t know for certain, but I think it is around $20,000 for a single license. It is not something I would buy for a small single man woodshop. But as long as I can use it for free it works great. 
The initial purpose of this blog (I say initial because the purpose may change as the site evolves) is to document how I design and build my projects as well as a showcase for them. Feel free to make comments or ask questions about any of my postings. I hope to learn as much as I can from the woodworking community at large and help anyone else on their woodworking journey as well.
