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The Boarded Chest II
"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots....
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The Boarded Chest III
I was working myself up to the good part. The inside papers were in place and the next step in the process was to turn a pile of boards into a big box. A boarded chest goes together quickly and solidly...
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Paint, paint, paint.Move, lift, slide, push, pull, move.Hang something here. Hang something over there. Shit. Take that down and hang it over there instead.There is nothing glamorous about setting up a...
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Ass, Gas or Grass. Nobody Rides For Free.
Recently I picked up a pair of match planes from Josh at Hyperkitten Tool Co. I can not recommend working with enough. He always has great user stuff for reasonable prices, responsive to emails and...
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The Boarded Chest IV
I don't pretend to be extensively traveled or even all that educated. I do spend a lot of time buying and looking at books on woodworking and furniture. Once you begin to look you realize just how many...
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The Boarded Chest V: The Start Of A Vision.
The journey you take as an artist or craftsman (or whatever your prefered nomenclature may be) always makes me think of the movie "Back To The Future," when Doc Brown explains alternate timelines to...
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The Seductive Power Of Hand Tools
There are many reasons I lean heavily into hand tool woodworking. Yes I have and use several stationary power tools, but there a word hand tools free me from and I love them for it.Production.With...
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The Saws Of Chartres Cathedral
I need a wealthy patron. Someone excited enough about my work and research they're interested in funding my modest lifestyle plus a generous budget for my clinically diagnosed BAD (Book Acquisition...
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Mentors . . .
The guys over at Mortise & Tenon Magazine recently asked people to post about their woodworking mentor(s) as part of National Mentoring Month. I wanted to participate of course, but had to step...
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Developing an Eye
Chris Schwarz has written about it several times before and I agree that the best education in furniture design you can get is to look at furniture. Lots and lots of it. Books and books, web page after...
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Kerfing Planes In Wisconsin Part 1
To say this without ranting, a few years ago my bandsaw broke, unrepairable and unsupported by the company that slapped their name on the side of the POS and my resaw world has suffered for it. As I...
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A Thoughtful Change
I land all over the bell curve in a large number of my life's pursuits, but one thing I am exceedingly good at is monogamy. I've been married for closing in on a quarter century. My pickup had close to...
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It All Takes Time
Last summer I was hanging out for a week at Mike Seimsen's Home for Wayward Woodworkers during one of his handtool immersion weeks. The concept is to take a handful of younger folks interested in the...
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Do I Look Like A Guy With A Plan?
Please don't answer that. I already know. This post will catch several threads of my life and shop so hold on.I just finished reading Nancy Hiller's "Making Things Work."(You don't need me to tell you...
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Transformative By Nature
My wife occasionally reminds me that my relationship with tools is outside the bell curve of normal. The following thoughts may be proof of this.With some tools there is a learning curve. You have to...
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Kerfing Planes In Wisconsin Part 2
Back from philosophising to sawdust slinging, or more correctly tool making. If you want to refresh where we left off on these kerfing planes the first installment is HERE.Tool making is it's own deep...
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An Unyielding Fascination
I've been playing with new toys and contemplating different games. Working with new materials and learning new skills. I recently purchased the 3D printed parts of the hero gun from the movie Hellboy....
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Roubo's Tool Chest: Frame Saw
This set is something I've been working toward for a long time. A frame saw for resawing boards to thickness and a couple of dedicated kerfing planes to aid the endeavor. Being able to resaw your...
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Something Special
It's easy to forget when you don't have someone of high school age in the house but it was recently Graduation Season and Mrs. Wolf and I were happy to see our middle daughter clear this life hurdle....
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Small Tool Storage Solution Prototype
It had been one of those weeks. Family medical crises, waiting rooms, playing taxi driver, and phone calls, my god the phone calls. By the middle of the week I was feeling more than a little restless...
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