Category: Woodworking Education

  • Where’s Jim Been? Life Stuff, Boston Mini Maker Faire, Lie-Nielsen Tool Event, and Some Wood Turning

    Sometimes “lifestuff” happens and disrupts the normal routine of life, including shop time… The last year to year and a half have made it so I haven’t had as much shop time as I normally would have. Though both my parents passed in 2017, not all life changes are bad. I have been able to…

  • A Day At Fine Woodworking Live 2013

    This post is following my usual theme of “better late than never”… I got the chance a few weekends ago to spend a day in New Haven, CT to attend Fine Woodworking Live. The event was the whole weekend, however Fine Woodworking also offered day passes for this year’s event. Not to get into too…

  • The Sawdust Tour & The Woodworking Shows

    I recently had the chance a couple of weeks ago to take a Friday off from work and take the couple hour drive out to West Springfield, MA for The Woodworking Shows stop at the Big E (aka the Eastern States Exposition). This was my first trip to one of the Woodworking Shows, so of…

  • Double Dose of Goodness

    The months of November and December have been great ones here at the shop. Allow me to explain… November – The Puja Table is complete! The Puja Table, the project that I had been working on for the better part of the past year, was finished back in November and given to my friend who…

  • Hangin’ With Woodworkers

    It’s been a busy few weeks – I recently was in a remote training class for work for a week that was on west coast hours (I’m on the east coast). That was followed by a different than usual work schedule afterward. This is a blog post I’ve been wanted to do for a bit…

  • Is It October Yet?

    Check out the trailer for “Rough Cut – Woodworking with Tommy Mac”, by clicking here, or the image below. Is it October yet?!

  • The True Value Of Free

    I’m still what I would consider a novice woodworker, and ever since I’ve become interested in woodworking, I’ve been soaking up any information I can get. Books, magazines, DVD videos, and especially online content available for free. As someone who wants to learn about all facets of woodworking – not just techniques, but also ideas…