Weekly Editorial
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Trees to Lumber
Last Sunday at church, my friend Jay started asking me about making a butcher-block table. He is a handy young man, and had decided that the butcher-block tables that he and his wife had been looking at were simply too rich for his blood. He asked me what I thought purchasing the lumber to make the table would cost.
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Handheld Routers: The Gateway Tool
Unless you are ready for the consequences, don’t let anyone give your kid a router. Because once they get a taste for edge trimming, dado routing and molding making … they will be hooked. You’ll have a woodworker on your hands, plain and simple.
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New Woodworking Tools and Accessories: the IWF
Last week, I spent several days at the International Woodworking Fair down in Atlanta, Georgia. It was like many shows that I’ve been to … I found new products to look at, old friends to reconnect with and miles of aisles to wear down my shoe leather. But this year, there was something at the show that had been missing for a few years: a spirit of optimism.
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The Woodworking Fairs of August
You might think summer would be winding down in August, but for some of my woodworking tasks, it’s just gearing up. In the next week alone, I’ll be going to two different fairs. First, I’m participating in the judging for woodworking entries at the Minnesota State Fair.
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Turning is Woodworking!
I have a really wide appreciation for woodworking of all types. And one of the wonderful benefits of my job is that I have gotten to dabble in many techniques and niches of the craft. Marquetry, carving, scroll sawing, fine furniture, rustic furniture, cabinetmaking, stringed instrument making — I have attempted them all.
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Stories from Woodworking’s Past
A little more than a week ago, we sent out an email announcing that we had collected all of the long out-of-print Today’s Woodworker magazines, and put them all on one CD.
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Hot … Really Hot
Here where I live, it has been really stinking hot of late. Now, I know that this is dangerous ground to cover, because many of you live where you don’t get worked up about the heat until you cross the triple digit Rubicon (we use the Fahrenheit scale here in the U.S. — it would be the upper 30s Celsius).
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Community Glues Woodworkers Together
Community is a great concept — one that has been working well for thousands of years. And now, it’s working on the Internet … how do I know? After reading the Q&As in our last eZine, some readers had a question about one of the questions — or, at least, about the answer.
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It’s a Contest! Turn, Turn, Turn!
Are you a woodturner? Have your thoughts ever turned to fame and/or fortune? If they have, well you are in luck.
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Saved by My Lathe
Some folks seem to think that the winter holiday season is the hardest on their budget. Not so with me — it’s the graduation/wedding season that makes my wallet look as bare as last year’s Christmas tree.
