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Template Crazy

Sometimes the best workmanship that a woodworker does is never seen on the final project.  It sits in a corner of the workshop and collects dust until it is time to make another of the same project.  I am, of course, talking about templates.  In these cases, the final project is not much more than [...]

Homage

When I first began woodworking, back in the late 1990’s, Norm Abram’s “The New Yankee Workshop” was by far the most popular woodworking show on television.  Once I discovered the show, I couldn’t get enough of it.  Here was this regular joe, (ok, regular Norm) making such beautiful projects that almost anyone would want in [...]

Unfinished Projects

I finally found a couple of hours this weekend to cleanup my garage/workshop.  It had been slowly becoming a disorganized mess over the last few months.  I haven’t had enough time to start a real project, so most of the work done in the shop had been quick little fix-it or modify-it type of work. [...]

Lumber Costs

There are a lot of things to consider when buying lumber for your woodworking projects, and cost is certainly one of them.  There are many ways to buy lumber, and the way that you choose will depend on how much time and money you want to spend on getting the lumber ready for your project.

New Woodworker Tools

If you are a new woodworker or are interested in trying your hand at woodworking, you may be wondering what tools you should start out with?

With so many tools on the market today it is hard to know what you should spend your hard earned money on.  There are certain fundamental basic tools that everyone [...]

Learning Woodworking

So you’ve decided to get start learning woodworking.  But you are not sure where or how you should start.  Maybe you’ve seen those guys on TV make some really cool stuff and you want to be able to do the same.  That’s how I got started anyway.  The problem is that you probably don’t have [...]