 Now selling on estySorry I have not been putting a lot of my projects on here lately but I’ve been doing alot with esty and I’m doing a new website it takes a lot of time. Here is a link to my esty shop if anyone would like to see what I’ve been up to. http://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephBealis  Time to start making those Christmas gifts!I have put together a collection of my past projects that are relativity fast and simple to make. They make great gifts. Time to go out to the shop and make some sawdust! Any other good ideas!  "Crazy Generous" Gifts for the WorkshopHave you ever walked away from your Workshop after a project without doing the proper cleanup? Here’s why that’s a really bad idea! We had spent so much time building the log bed that we just didn’t bother to clean up. And after nearly a week of avoiding the basement entirely I was starting to feel pretty guilty…one day I even took my project out to the front yard to “work in the sunshine.” In reality I was avoiding the mess! But I wasn’t the o...  When it rains, it pours....This has been the week for gifts. Today another package arrived and in it were three old jointer knives. Now I can have my shop made rabbeting plane! Thank you John, aka two blacklabs. Your gift is going to make more than just me happy. We will cover half of Todd’s “Share the knowledge, share the love” by line. lol Two of these will be going to other LJ’s. Thank you again, John, you generosity is much appreciated. Rand  Learning CurveThere’s one lesson I seem to keep relearning, and that’s how much trouble I have working with sheet wood, MDF in particular. Not only is it bloody heavy, for the life of me, I cannot get a square corner cut on it, or get it cut to the right length/width. Well, I canif I can fit it on my tablesaw. And that I think is the problem. I’ve tweaked out the saw, miter gage (mostly), and fence so that I can get reliable cuts from it. But if I can’t fit the piece on the table sa...  Christmas projects #1: Christmas Presents.Well, I missed the Christmas deadline, but my daughters were still very pleased. My wife and I decided and told everybody last year that we were only giving gifts that we made. This was prompted by my daughters (3) all asking for shopping money. It was important to my wife and I that they know what the true meaning of Christmas is and to be thnakful for the many gifts they have been blessed with over the years. Namely, never going hungry….always having a roof over their heads…e...  Marry Christmas and Happy New YearsFellow Lumberjocks. I’d like to Wish each and every one of you a Great Christmas and New years. I’ve received a Greatful Gift from Todd Clippinger a Fellow Lumberjock. I’d like to thank him as I done in Private Message already, but also here just to let everyone know that there are alot of Greatful People out there that help inspire Young woodworkers and even advanced woodworker, turners and even scrollers. It’s all the great help, tips, hints, pictorials eve...  Boards of Christmas Gifts.Boards of Christmas Gifts.Fresh out of the planer, these are Christmas gifts I am working on. I still need to sand, round the corners and route the edges. I am going to finish them with Butcher Block Oil from General Finishes $8.99 . But I might do one with mineral oil from Target $1.52 to see if there is a deference. and should I put a Butcher Block Conditioner after I oil them up ? Thanks for looking and Happy Holidays. Cool (I hope!) Yule GiftsDecided I would try my hand and making Yule gifts this year. Pondered and asked and bounced project complexity with my fledgling talents and came up with with boxes for mom and sis, hand mirrors for daughter and nieces, Lego storage box for nephew, modified ammo crates for my two boys burgeoning Nerf gun armory, drill bit organizer for dad. Have a votive candle holder for wifey queued up, but she wants a new color laser printer first ;). Started with the boxes first. Next up are the mirror...  My Tools #1: A very Robert Sorby birthdayEveryone’s going to hate me for this, but I just fell – not literally – into a lot of new Robert Sorby turning tools. The 18th (3 days ago) was my 32 birthday (for you programmers, that’s 100000 in binary – I no longer fit in 5 bits!). Mom sent me a box of Rockler goodies from my wishlist. In typical (for my mom) fashion, she overdid the gift-giving. She’s always been very supportive of my endeavors. Thanks, mom! I’ll have to make her several nice thi...  
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