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• Building a Light Box/Light Tent #1: Building a Light Box - 363 days ago | 4 comments

  In another life, photography was my hobby. (You can check out some of my photographs here.) While...

• Reviews #2: Lee Valley Bevel Up Smoother Plane - Heaven! - 664 days ago | 3 comments

  There was a recent thread where someone asked about buying used hand planes and refurbishing them...

• Reviews #1: Basic Box Making with Doug Stowe - a review - 692 days ago | 5 comments

  I have watched this DVD about 5 times now. I will watch it another 5 times before Christmas. When...

• Beginning Woodworking - How to spend a $1000 - 718 days ago | 15 comments

  If you are a beginning wooodworker, it can be tricky to know where to start and what to get. Obvi...

• MIDI Workstation #4: MIDI Workstation Finished! - 726 days ago | 2 comments

  Here is the MIDI Workstation in its new home and in use. It really does make a difference in my p...

• MIDI Workstation #3: MIDI Workstation Part II - 726 days ago | 2 comments

  This is where things start getting exciting! MIDI Workstation After a couple of weekend...

• MIDI Workstation #2: Making the MIDI Workstation Part 1 - 726 days ago | 3 comments

  When I am working with a new product, I often will use it in a final project. It is much more mot...

• MIDI Workstation #1: Veritas 32 Cabinet Building System or Building a MIDI Keyboard Workstation - 726 days ago | 1 comment

  For my birthday I got a MIDI keyboard which is currently sitting awkwardly on one of my computer ...

• A Clean Shop #2: Getting Organized - 726 days ago | 1 comment

  With the new equipment cabinet completed, I could go to work on getting the rest of the shop clea...

• A Clean Shop #1: A New Shop Cabinet - 726 days ago | 0 comments

  The last two months or so, the shop has been a mess. Partly this is due to not having a place to ...