| Blog series by Sam Yerardi | updated 667 days ago | 3 parts | 758 reads | 38 comments total |
Part 1: My dad's tools
I remember many a day in my dad’s shop when I was a very young boy. I would help him with anything he would let me do. I couldn’t wait to wake up early on a Saturday morning and see what he & I would get into. I would always have a secret hope that today might be the day when he would use that particular tool up on the shelf I’d never seen used before. My older brothers were away in the military, and I grew very close to my dad. One morning in the shop out of the blue he told m...
Part 2: Going In Halves On a Lot of Wood
A few years ago me and my friend Mike were talking about woodworking and he told me of a sawmill that had great prices on unseasoned wood. We went together and bought about 1000 board feet of mixed hardwoods, oak, maple, and poplar. We got it for $300. It was from a mill near a farm his family had near Rio Grande, Ohio. I bought my half sight unseen. I just had to have the wood. And at $150 for 500 bd ft, how could I go wrong? I didn’t think about (or realize) the fact that I only had ...
Part 3: Honey the Plane is Only $350 bucks!
When my wife and I were first married, money was a bit scarce and we struggled but from time to time we would splurge on something. Since I was into woodworking and was in the process of building our kitchen and its cabinets, I was usually making a case to my wife that I needed this tool or that load of wood and more often than not, I did. One night she & I were laying in bed and I was looking at an issue of Fine Woodworking magazine for a few minutes. I saw an ad where a fellow in Jud...
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