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Small Display Case | A Dad & Son Project!
I absolutely love that my son Ian came to me with a project idea that he wanted to build with me. While the negative is that he broke his wrist a few months ago, after getting signatures from us, the kids at school and his teachers, it turned into a bit of a badge of…
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Simple Sawhorses
Sometimes everyone needs to do some shop builds. I used to have four of the plastic sawhorses, but I killed two of them when I built my workbench. I decided that my next set would be ones that I built. For these ones, each sawhorse gets three pieces of 2×4 cut to 32″ for the…
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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…
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Ditching the Numbers
Hi Folks, I just wanted to post a quick update that I am dropping the numbering from video posts. I’ve removed the numbering from this site and Youtube, but you will see them within the videos themselves to date, but not going forward. It seems a little antiquated to me at this point for video…
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Sushi Cutting Board from David Picciuto’s ‘Make Your Own Cutting Boards’
As a wedding gift, I recently made the Sushi cutting board from David Picciuto’s book Make Your Own Cutting Boards: Smart Projects and Stylish Designs for a Hands-On Kitchen. This cutting board really has an elegant design with an Eastern feel. The hard maple and walnut contrast nicely on a smaller project like this. Sometimes,…