| This blog is written by Matt | 21 entries so far |
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Another Journey into Woodworking - Chip Carving
It gets really hot here in the summertime. 100 degrees is not unheard of. It’s times lik...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #11: After Two Months.....
Complete! Well, it’s as close to complete as it can get without dragging this series along...
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CNC Handplane #2: Plan B
After several failed attempts, I have development a new strategy for the CNC hand plane. The tra...
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CNC Handplane #1: CNC Handplane - Failure #1
Didn’t Thomas Edison discover a 1000 different ways NOT to make a light bulb? I figured I have 99...
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My Hand Tool Education #2: Card Scrapers - All That with That?
Yep, that’s the title. You can do all of that with those little things? Wow! Based on ...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #10: Finished Some Benches
Early Saturday morning I was out in the shop putting the finishing touches on the New Fangled Ben...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #9: New Shop, New Bench
As the first phase of actually building the storage and work areas for my shop, I decided to buil...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #8: Happiness is an Electrical Upgrade
Well, we’re just waiting on the inspector and it will all be done. The guys showed up on ...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #7: Electrical Work and Updates
Here is the progress so far. The walls are insulated, covered with sheetrock, mudded, and tap...
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My Hand Tool Education #1: My First Hand Plane - Stanley #5
Rather than code a bunch of pictures into this post, here is a link to my Flickr Set for this...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #6: Painting is Done - White and Bright!
I’m getting excited and I’m pretty happy with how everything has come out. My fath...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #5: The Sanding is Done!
Here are just a few shots of the garage after I finished sanding all of the walls. Something I ...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #4: I Hate Sanding
Putting on the tape and mud isn’t so bad. However, sanding absolutely sucks! There, I fee...
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Ebay Power Tool - RSS Feeds
This post comes with an up front disclaimer: I make a little bit of money from Ebay promoting th...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #3: Drywall Day - I Have Some Great Friends
I planned the drywall installation for my shop on Saturday. Several of my friends agreed to com...
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Woodworking and My Infinite Exploration
My friends attribute it to my 40 year old Adult Attention Deficit Disorder (AADD). Maybe. Maybe...
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CNC's and You. A Beginner's Perspective #1: Introducing the Duchess
Ok, the name comes from a line Rob Riggle used on the Daily Show with John Stewart. He said he w...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #2: The Walls are Bare and the Insulation is Up!
Over this past week, I took some time off from work (because the weather was going to be insanely...
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Matt's Long Awaited Workshop Renovation #1: In the Beginning
In the beginning, there was a workshop. It was very cold. Especially in the winter. It was al...
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Woodturning, The Early Years #1: Lets Talk About Chucks
Hopefully a fairly new woodturner will see this and be able to take something away from it. I ...
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First LumberJocks Post
Well, this is it. My first post. Let’s see if I can keep this blog running a little long...
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