Shop Redesign: Lumber Rack

It has been several months since my last post, and I feel pretty bad about not providing any updates, much less videos, in the last few months.  Life, and then weather, unfortunately happened. As some of you may have seen, my new video went up today!   While there's not much going on...

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Bandsaw Project: Business Card Holder

We had first table at craft show this past weekend in downtown Mesa, AZ.  We knew that we needed several things for the table, among them a business card holder.  Rather than buy one (or two), we (being crafty such as we are) decided to make them instead. This was a very simple project...

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The Thin (Not) Red Line: Sharpening

It's been a while since my last post, and for that I do apologize to those of you who have been stopping by to see if there's anything new.  Thank you, though, for continuing to check in! Life has been incredibly weird the last several weeks, and while I've been getting some shop time, I have...

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Part 4: Learn All The Things!!! Flat Miters and Tapers

I spent the holiday weekend traveling around AZ with my wife, which necessarily removes me from the shop and my computer.  We had an amazing time seeing some of the high country and small towns in northern Arizona, and it was a necessary breath of fresh air from the city that recharged us both. ...

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Part 3: Learn All The Things!!! Angular Cuts

The last assignment of Lesson 1 is miter cuts, Part 1 and Part 2 of this series cover the other assignments.  That is, making angular cross cuts across the stock at any desired angle.  As an introduction to this technique, the most common angle of 45-degrees is presented.  Cuts are...

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Part 2: Learn All The Things!!! Tongue and Groove Joint

In my last post, I posted my first shop video.  And while it takes a while to edit video footage and put together a project, I am much more likely to get useful imagery to post here.  Therefore, I will be making more video content, even if it takes me just a bit longer to get a post up...

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Shop Tour!

The big news for today is that we have termites.  We saw some mud tubes yesterday, and the inspector came out today and confirmed subterranean termites.  This took a large portion of the day, and by the time he left, it was way too hot and humid to start anything in the shop.  I will try again tomorrow. What I was able to do today was a quick shop tour video!! This is the first video...

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