Woodworking
Late evening, Sunday, January 04, 2009 • No responses
I kicked off the new year by finishing up a project I started last year. This is a play table I just finished today for Ray.
Most of the in-house projects I’ve taken on in my current woodshop have been either for the shop or for Ray. …
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Late afternoon, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 • 7 responses
There’s a very simple explanation for my year-plus absence from etherfarm. This simple explanation has fifty-seven parts, the first three of which are described briefly below:
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Lunchtime, Tuesday, November 01, 2005 • 15 responses
So let me break this long hiatus with an exciting announcement: sometime next March the wife and I will be having a son.
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Mid-afternoon, Monday, November 10, 2003 • 4 responses
Well, the dresser is done. It measures 63” wide x 33” tall x 23” deep. The carcass and drawer fronts are made of a cherry-stained beech; the drawers are all dovetail-joined poplar with aromatic cedar bottoms. …
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The wee hours, Thursday, October 09, 2003 • 5 responses
This illustration is from a warning sticker affixed to a flush-cut saw I recently purchased.
Whenever I finish a big endeavor, such as a long roadtrip or in this case, making large furniture, I get this overwhelming feeling of surprise that nothing catastrophic happened in the process. It’s rather overwhelming, I think, that I can take, for example, a 6,700 mile road trip as I did last winter and not experience a car crash. …
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Evening, Wednesday, September 17, 2003 • 1 response
The office/studio reorganization continues still. It began as a three-hour tour, and now, going on the third week, I still have huge piles of books on the floor and some cables that still need to be plugged into the backs of some presently cable-less things. Hell for someone as bent on organization as myself. …
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