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15 Years of Galoototron
With a decade and a half on this blog’s odometer, I got to wondering if I really have any more of a clue now than I did 15 years ago. Recall that I started this blog when I started woodworking. Then...
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Plane for Shooting
Shop time has been limited, yet nonzero, in the last couple of weeks. Other than a bunch of cleaning up down there (which has gotten much easier as I find better ways to organize), I finally set out...
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Preparing Wide Glue-Ups for the Planer Sled
With its ability to flatten wide stock quickly and effortlessly, one of the things that my planer sled design has enabled is a little more flexibility and ease when I need to glue up something wide....
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Tidying Up
For the first little bit of this year, I’ve got a small goal of organizing and cleaning up. The biggest problem I have right now is wood storage. The first thing I did to address that might seem a...
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New Video: Mortise Notes
I made a little video with some mortising notes, including the grain-direction tidbit that I posted about a while back. Aside from some sweet mortising action, it features an impersonation of a...
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Long (Grain) Shooting Board Notes (and New Video)
Squaring up small workpieces has been a pain for me as long as I can remember. It’s not unique to me; several old publications also mention the problem as well as making a longer shooting board for...
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Oh, The Liminality
It seems that I’ll be moving again. Perhaps “liminal” is not the best term here because I seem to move on a fairly regular basis, but I want to use that word and there’s nothing you can do about it....
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New Video: Stair Nose
I posted a new video of the hand-tool work done while making a replacement stair nose for my porch. It features probably way too many tools for its sub-4-minute length. This project and video, like...
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Here We Go Again
I’d mentioned a year ago that I would be moving at some point. Well, that’s finally happened–partially. What that means is that I’ve moved out of my old house and into a rental. Because the housing...
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There We Went Again
We found a new house a more quickly than I thought we would. And it’s in… New Jersey. Central Jersey, in particular, if you believe that such a place actually exists. (There’s apparently some sort of...
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