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Surrounded by Opportunity
You are constantly, perpetually, surrounded. To the point that you cannot get away from it, no matter how hard you try. Every place you go, new or familiar is full of opportunity.
The problem is you do not see it. You are accustom to seeing what you want while ignoring what is there.
The Start of My Biggest Project Ever: Friday Update
Getting close to completion on one project means starting a new. Generally that doesn’t mean buying a 10 foot by 4 foot slab of black walnut that I now need to store and work around for the next few weeks, but hey, I did.
Jointer Alternatives for Edges
Jointing, an essential woodworking skill, can be done with very simple, low cost tools. No big, expensive jointer needed.
Susan Gets Lazy: Friday Update
The Lazy Susan comes together. Well, I mean it was already together, at least the boards were. But this week I cut it into a circle and attach the hardware. I’m into my favorite part of any project, the part where it comes together and looks like what I envisioned before starting. I also share a little about the future of my blog given my analytics. Things are going to change, slightly. Read more to find out what I mean.
Passing Down Skills
Building is a trial in more than skill. There are inherent lessons in every process. Recognizing those lessons is the trick and passing those lessons on is the reward.
Building a Love of Woodworking: Friday Update
This week was one of multiple projects, again. My daughter and son make a birdhouse, I helped, and I made more Lazy Susan progress. It’s starting to take shape, meaning it looks less like a pile of boards and is becoming one big board.
Project Process
Getting started can be the hardest part of a project. This helpful guide to beginning a woodworking project, including if you are building for a client, will help you streamline your process and mind by breaking each step down into small, consumable parts.
Walnut End Table: Friday Update
This week I complete this little end table. A whirlwind of a project taking roughly 2 weeks, including the video, but it’s all done and I’m back to client work, after a hiatus in hand plane restoration that is.
How to Use a Card Scraper
Card scrapers are a useful little tool, but can be tricky to setup and use. This guide will help you hone your scraper skills. Once you have them, you’ll wonder how you ever scraped by before.
Over Working: Friday Update
I always work hard, it’s what I do, but this week was too much. I attempted to get this end table done in one week and, well, fell flat. Turns out my body decided I needed a break for a few days. After recovery I rebounded and the table is nearly done with a couple of hours of work remaining.
Knowing Why
I recently made a career shift. To be more accurate, I made the conscious decision to leave a career. There are a few reasons why, but the bigger point is why am I here and what, at the end of my journey, do I want to be known for.
Walnut Display Cabinet Retrospective
Over Complicating a Simple Project: Friday Update
I move on to new projects. One I kept simple, another I did the opposite. Oh and I went to the Guild for the first time and met some really cool people.
The Best Way to Adjust a Ridgid Table Saw Fence
Fences are a critical part of a table saw. Without a solid, well functioning fence a table saw becomes almost unusable. As you use the saw the fence can drift out of alignment. Here is the easy way to fix it.
Completing the Cabinet: Friday Update
The cabinet is finally done and it is looking mighty fine. This one has been a journey, over a year since original design to delivery, but it was well worth the wait.
Imitation or Inspiration
When you see something, a drawing, a tree, a piece of furniture, and create your own design or art based on an aspect of what you saw, is it inspiration or imitation, sometimes thought as stealing, from the original?
Walnut Display Cabinet Final Details: Friday Update
Another week on the cabinet and it’s nearly there. It’s final form is together, looking complete and thirsty for finish.
Your Blog Will Not Make You Money And That’s Okay.
Shocking, but true. You will not make money off your blog.
Despite all of those blogs telling you it takes 6 easy steps to make $13,000 per month, I’m here to say you won’t, at least for a while.
Cabinet Progress and Door Challenges: Friday Update
This week I shift my attention back to the cabinet, completing the structure, and moving on to the doors, where I run into an issue with wood movement. Read more to learn about the problem and how I dealt with it.
What is the Purpose of a Company?
The idea of a company dates back to 1600, but over the past 400 years has changed. In some ways considerably, in other ways very little. But the root of a company, the reason why the word and idea was created has changed, or has it? I believe a company exists for the people, but how do we continue to maintain a people centric mindset?