When I first began woodworking, back in the late 1990’s, Norm Abram’s “The New Yankee Workshop” was by far the most popular woodworking show on television.  Once I discovered the show, I couldn’t get enough of it.  Here was this regular joe, (ok,...

I finally found a couple of hours this weekend to cleanup my garage/workshop.  It had been slowly becoming a disorganized mess over the last few months.  I haven’t had enough time to start a real project, so most of the work done in the shop had been...

This is a fishing net I made several years ago.  I made it from plans out of the June 2001 issue of Wood Magazine. The frame for this net made out of laminated Walnut and White Ash. The inlaid fish is also made out of Walnut. The plan called for...

Sometimes woodworking and art become one.  Sometimes they are two very separate things.  Woodworking, I think, is always a skill or craft.  But how often does it actually become art?  Where is the line that a wood project crosses in order for it to...

Front View (Click for larger view) Here is a quick update of where I am on the workshop design.  If you remember from my first article, the footings and frost wall already exist so I cannot modify anything with them, but every thing else is fair...