Tag: Woodworking Techniques

  • A Bit of a Catch Up Post

    The first half of 2015 really didn’t turn out to be much of a great woodworking period for me for various reasons. It hasn’t been until the last couple of months that I’ve been able to get any significant shop time, but now that I have been able to get more shop time, I wanted…

  • It’s Get Woodworking Week! Two Things To Keep In Mind.

    It’s “Get Woodworking Week”! Begun by Tom Iovino from Tom’s Workbench, it’s a week to think about ways to introduce the craft to others. For this year, I’d like to offer a couple of things to keep in mind… Mistakes are okay! I think the fear of failure makes some folks a bit timid about…

  • Happy New Year! Some New Year Goals for 2014

    First things first… Happy New Year! I hope that you have a great and safe New Year, and that you all had a great Holiday season! In looking back over the last year, I have made some improvements to the shop, attended Fine Woodworking Live, and completed a couple of projects, but I wanted 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…

  • A Case For Pocket Hole Joinery

    When I made my son’s table a couple of years ago, I had one rule that I followed regarding how it was to be built: Keep it simple since it is a child’s work table. It should not be made of expensive materials, and it should be, to the best of my ability, repairable should…

  • 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…