This blog is written by poopiekat | 10 entries so far |
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Restoring a "Zenith" by Marshall Wells Hardware transitional plane.
This plane was purchased at auction recently: I do my usual triage, assign it a number for...
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Restoring Handplane Totes
There’s lots of planes in my workshop that need a refurbished tote to make them usable. Th...
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Wood Gloat: One Man Gathers What Another Man Spills...
And so it goes, according to Jerry Garcia! Is Karma involved here? Anyhoo, I was at one of few ...
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Segmented Woodturning: "to boldly go...."
I have been studying segmented turning for a while. I have lots of small pieces of exotic lumber,...
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Inventory Control...and the Art of Dying
I got to a point in my life where I must think about my future, er well, THE future whether it in...
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Culling the Herd
While working on my current project, I realized that there are some tools in full view, within ea...
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Woodworkers Just Gotta Be Bad People Sometimes....
As I reminisce over projects, jobs, and situations I’ve endured over the decades, there has...
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Restoring furniture from the Golden Oak period.
I was hooked on woodworking as a lad in the 1960’s, my junior-high shop classes sealed the ...
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Lifestyle Priorities as a Woodworker
As I get older, I look around at my fairly well-equipped workshop, and I start to get overwhelmed...
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All Right... Now I'm Angry!!
What I really like to do when not generating sawdust is designing simple production fixtures and ...