Tag: Woodworking

  • Waffle Trivets – Last Minute Elf 2013

    I was thinking about what sort of Christmas gifts I might make this year, especially since I did not get time to do any last year. Then, when Tom over at Tom’s Workbench introduced The Last Minute Elf, I  thought it was a great way to generate some ideas for folks on what they could…

  • 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…

  • Safety Is A Family Affair – Woodworking Safety Day 2013

    I thought about what I wanted to post this year for Woodworking Safety Day (formerly Safety Week), and was honestly having trouble thinking of something that hasn’t been covered already. I then thought about posting about simply listening to your inner voice and making sure one analyzes and is comfortable with a certain operation, but I…

  • The Rack | Lumber Storage Rack

    I now have a new, much improved wood storage solution. Before I had wood sitting on sawhorses in the basement, that was taking up a large amount of space, which is now freed up for more useful things. As I mention in the video, this wood rack is based on The Wood Whisperer “Racking My…

  • 100 Pieces Of Wood

    To celebrate their 100th day of the school year, my son’s homework tonight for his second grade class is to bring in a collection of 100 small items. We were going over our options of what he could bring in: maybe some Lego pieces, pennies… or how about pieces of wood? He loved the idea,…

  • 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…