| This blog is written by Patrick Jaromin | 27 entries so far |
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The New Woodcraft Magazine is Here! (oh, and btw, I'm in it)
On Friday afternoon I arrived home to find a package containing 10 freshly-printed copies of the ...
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Photosynth of the Workshop
I’ve finally had a chance to clean the shop…so I took some time this evening to ̶...
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Woodcraft Magazine Photo Shoot
What a blast!Last Friday, Woodcraft Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jim Harrold spent the day visiting m...
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The One Where Bosley Gets New Cabinet Doors...
My little shop got a workout this weekend when gal pals Kathy, Cathy and Tracy spent Saturday bui...
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A Couple Minor Shop Enhancements
Over the last couple months things in the shop have been fairly quiet…mainly due to things ...
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Shark Pole
This past Christmas, Santa brought me a Shark Guard. I used it to complete Nathan's crib, but kn...
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A Crib for Nathan #2: Finally Complete
It’s been difficult finding time to complete this project. When you come home after work...
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Very Cool News
Wanted to share with y’all my good news…my entry in the WoodCentral.com America's Top...
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A Crib for Nathan #1: One Tough Customer
Now that he’s arrived, I need to get crackin’ on a crib for our latest addition. A...
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Please Welcome a Future LumberJock!!!
Please welcome Nathan Kenneth Jaromin! Born November 9th. http://jaromin.com/blog/2008...
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Boy's Cherry and Walnut Dresser #8: Dresser Finds a Home
I completed the baby’s room over the weekend and “installed” the dresser last n...
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Boy's Cherry and Walnut Dresser #7: Filling in the Blanks
One of my favorite features of the top, is actually technically a defect—a quarter-sized kn...
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Boy's Cherry and Walnut Dresser #6: Dead Flat
I love my "new" drum sander. I purchased the used machine for the purpose of sanding shop-cut ...
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Boy's Cherry and Walnut Dresser #5: Drawers
Labor Day weekend my wife took the kids up to the family cabin for a couple days. I spent most of...
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Boy's Cherry and Walnut Dresser #4: Face Frame Installed
OK, so I “cheated.” I typically assemble face frames with pocket screws. It’...
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Boy's Cherry and Walnut Dresser #3: Gluing up the Carcass
The Day Begins I started the day by marking out and cutting the slots for the biscuits into th...
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Boy's Cherry and Walnut Dresser #2: Legs shaped, sides assembled and Ouch!
Construction begins… In between trips to the zoo, the Children’s Museum and backya...
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My New Big Honkin' Machine
I love craigslist. Around the same time I began the planning for my new shop, I started using ...
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Boy's Cherry and Walnut Dresser #1: Designing A New Dresser for Our New Son
A few months back, we learned that we were expecting our third child. My wife, the youngest of fi...
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New Woodshop Construction #8: Shop Air, and Sheet Goods Get A Home
My original design for the shop included multiple compressed air outlets scattered about the shop...
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New Woodshop Construction #7: An Hour Here, a Half-Hour There and a Few Saturday Mornings
Over the past month I found very little contiguous time to make progress on the shop setup. Conse...
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New Woodshop Construction #6: Hacking the Delta 50-875 Air Cleaner
(This post is based on a LumberJocks.com forum thread.) After completing my dust collection syste...
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New Woodshop Construction #5: Custom Collector Controller
If you read my last post you might recall how I decided to purchase an X10 “Powerflash Inte...
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New Woodshop Construction #4: A Short But Productive Weekend
Countertops I’ve been dying to start stowing my tools away in the newly built shop cabin...
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New Woodshop Construction #3: The Monster in My Closet
OK, so maybe not exactly a “monster,” but the old Woodtek 3HP double-bag dust col...
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New Woodshop Construction #2: My "Green" Dust Collection System
Not “green” in the environmental sense, mind you…but green in a very literal se...
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New Woodshop Construction #1: Setting Up Shop II, or How I Spent My Winter Vacation
(This is the first post here, but a continuation of a series started at my personal blog at tenon...

















