Most of my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances found 2009 a harder year than years past. The global economic downturn and its residual effects of course weighed heavily on all of us—some more directly than others. For me, 2009 really wasn’t bad, and I’m going into 2010 with some good momentum.
A few weeks ago I had two medium-sized trees taken down in my backyard. Though shade trees, they weren’t providing shade in any meaningful place. In fact, they were fairly useless, dropped these crazy, spikey balls in my neighbor’s lawn, and sat in a corner of the yard where I want to build Ray a fort or clubhouse later this summer. So I decided to have them taken down.
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. Given the way the last few years have been for me at work, I can’t see it having turned out differently. …
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:
So let me break this long hiatus with an exciting announcement: sometime next March the wife and I will be having a son.
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. Each drawer uses an accuride ball-bearing drawer slide. …
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. It’s astounding to me that I can go backpacking by myself for 5 days and come out of the mountains alive. …
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. Part of the office rehab (and to some extent, part of my psychological rehab from the office rehab), though, has been spending the better part of the day out on my porch, making furniture. …
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