| Blog series by David A. P. | updated 377 days ago | 3 parts | 1479 reads | 4 comments total |
Part 1: Somewhere in the middle: Buck Bros. Block Plane
I have my own blog, and before I discovered the excellence that is Lumberjocks, I started posting my woodworking adventures there. Fortunately, I only got one post up there before I signed up at LJ. However, I’m going to leave that post where it is, so I figured I’d drop a pointer to it here: Jumping Right In. Maybe not the ideal solution, but c’est la vie .
Part 2: Raw materials
I started out with a fairly hefty workbench from the house’s previous owner, but it’s in a place not appropriate for a woodshop, and it’s not easy to move to where I do want my shop (the garage). Given that the space that it’s in is my main art studio, and it’s useful for that, I decided to leave it there and come up with a different bench for my woodwork.The space I had available…well, let’s call it available in theory, as at the time I decided to se...
Part 3: A few of my favorite tools...so far.
Being supremely lazy, and having already made some pithy and amusing (at least, amusing to me) comments on a list of my favorite tools—at least, at the point that I wrote it up—I’m going to link to my Amazon Listmania list here. I’ve gotten stuff since then, of course, and I have even more interesting and fun stuff to say…but that will be in the next (-ish) post. Hopefully this is at least somewhat useful!
A raw beginner's journey through the world of working with wood, with an artistic slant.
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