When furniture maker Austin Kane Matheson set up shop, he had to be near the sea. The former boat-builder and captain had always found his way in the waves — an early passion for West Indian furniture emerged during voyages to and from the Caribbean islands. Once on dry land, he settled in Rockland, Maine, and assembled a workshop in an old metalworking factory just steps from the harbor. ...

Saturdays are often a mixture of activities. I spent some time mulching leaves, some time cleaning the shop, some time taking photos for articles for American Woodworker, and some time installing pulls on the drawer fronts I made and have been installing over the last week. You can see what I've been up to in the three photos... On the subject of education, I listened to part of an interview ...

It was the first day of the school year and the shop teacher was surprised to see a rather "princess-like" young lady sitting in the front row of the classroom. Her name was Judy and she was the only girl to sign up for the woodworking shop class that term. The shop teacher asked her if she was sure she was in the right class, and Judy assured him that she was. The teacher then said, ...

... the introduction of new designers Decoy Lab and Paperdoll Woodshop.  Of course switching the Store over to our new web host meant ... Decoy Lab) $10 M is for Magazine Holder (By Paperdoll Woodshop) - $38 Robot Wine Holder (By Paperdoll Woodshop) - $38 And what better way to start off the first new blog post of December than by offering all you awesome blog readers a 10% ...

... sturdy set of bedroom shelves for his Revell models. Looking back, it follows that the noisy, meditative setting of the woodshop appealed to Kevin. It was a place where no one shouted at him and where no electronic parts could mysteriously fail. In our basement, Dad had a woodshop, too, a flagstone-floored, fluorescent-lit grotto with an oversized plank workbench, barrels of ...

... des Garçons (it was made with Finnish design firm Artek) was: woodshop! And then: Hinoki! Hinoki, for those of you who don’t obsessively follow the Comme des Garçons fragrance ... and was a collaborative effort with Monocle magazine. It smelled like raw wood and other woodshop smells (turpentine, camphor). Standard, despite having a different perfumer (Olivier Pescheux), and different notes ...

... know that I have been teaching the Woodshop at Christian Academy of Guatemala. For those who didn't know that, very early in this current school year, the man who was the teacher, and ... each week, and a Middle School class, two days each week.So, I am filling in as woodshop teacher for this semester. I have already informed them I cannot continue after this semester ends at the Christmas break. ...

... ; can be customized to your needs. Take advantage of what’s possible. I’m really good at Building stuff in my woodshop. Updating house wiring. Organizing stuff. My computer is mostly used for making ... & TCM TV channels. A hot night to play naked outside in the rain/mud. My woodshop. toilet paper (last but certainly not least). I spend a lot of time thinking about Why don’t I get ...

... on Ebay.) A photo of the bike shop. For those who follow my blog and have kept up with all I've done in the garage/woodshop, it is apparent I need to spend some time imparting such order to the basement. I've ... the part I needed hidden in a box I had yet to unpack. Argh. That is one of my first generation woodshop benches now functioning as my main bike bench -- built in 1999 and since ...

... thing ever?! I mean, like totally. *Swoon* I tried to friend him on facebook a year or two ago. Bastard Denied me. Ah-hem, where was I? Oh, yes 1986. And the cutie pie pictured above and I had woodshop together (Yes, woodshop. It was a required class. Don't judge.) And cutie pie came into class every day listening to this album: Licensed to Ill by The Beastie Boys So, if cutie pie ...