Tai Chi and Woodworking

Woodworking can be quite a rough master. Besides cut, hit and worn fingers, woodworking can mean long hours holding yourself at odd angles. Taking a break is more than just rest at times. As I age, I find that taking a break can prevent clumsy behavor. My back is not what it once was.

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The Village Carpenter Blog

Lately I have been regularly going to The Village Carpenter. Kari Hultman is quite productive, writes well, and has managed to beat me to the punch posting on a subject three times in the last two months. She does great photography and great woodworking. Kari also gives good linkage to subjects and produces a timely […]

Glue

One of the tools I use regularly is glue. It pays to know as much about this stuff as you can. After squandering a fortune on wood and forming it into a useful shape, it is really lame to have the glue joints go bad.

One big isssue is that glue may prevent you from […]

Hand Tool Jigs

At one time I had a shop full of jigs. Half of them, I couldn’t even remember what they where for. You set up a jig, make a bunch of electrons run around through wires and make a bunch of identical cuts. Weeee! Then you save the pretty much useless monstrosity of clamping tracks and […]

User Comment Spam

Until you run a blog, there is an entire family of spam you never see. Stuff with pages of links to all the stuff they normally spam you on are common. In any case they have links that lead back to sites you really don’t want to see. Often they compliment your site mastery, wisdom, […]