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This secret cost me $20,000, but I'll let you have it for free.

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This simple little business secret cost me $20,000 and almost five years to learn. In this post I let you have it for free.

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Long Reach Drill/Driver

Long Reach Drill/Driver

Here are two shopmade long reach drill/drivers ready to help and work hard to drill or drive in hard-to-reach tight and narrow spots.

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End mills vs. router bits for mortising

End mills vs. router bits for mortising

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Consider end mills as an alternative to spiral router bits for mortising with a router.

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Spalt Your Own Lumber: Optimizing fungal growth

Spalt Your Own Lumber: Optimizing fungal growth

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Fungi grow in specific directions in wood. By optimizing your placement of mushrooms you can speed the spalting process.

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Fine Curved Front Drawers Without Dovetails

Fine Curved Front Drawers Without Dovetails

a post regarding doweled curved front drawers

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Spalt Your Own Lumber: Zone lines get even more mysterious

Spalt Your Own Lumber: Zone lines get even more mysterious

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Zone lines don't just come in black, as many people think. See some of the variations and help me brainstorm on the possible causes.

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End Grain Up Cork Bulletin Board

End Grain Up Cork Bulletin Board

The best ideas come out of necessity; this bulletin board was a practical and economical project that allowed an opporunity to expand my skills as a woodworker using the beauty of end grain.

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Opening Gambits

Opening Gambits

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Part 1 on teaching furniture design

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Some thoughts from the Unplugged Woodshop

Some thoughts from the Unplugged Woodshop

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Do the tools you use effect your furniture designs?

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Easy Table Saw Crosscut Sled

Easy Table Saw Crosscut Sled

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It's simple and it works.

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Workshop Tongs or Blind Nailing/Screwing Jigs

Workshop Tongs or Blind Nailing/Screwing Jigs

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How many mistakes are made and how much time is spent taking mesurements to locate exactly where to drive nails or screws, or drill a hole from behind ? For a shelf, a bracket, a door pull, a...

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Ryan's Blanket Chest

Ryan's Blanket Chest

Here's an overview of a blanket chest project that recently passed through my shop.

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Dining Room Table and Chairs

Dining Room Table and Chairs

QSWO draw-leaf table and walnut A & C side chairs

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Spalt Your Own Lumber: Fungus of the Month - Oyster Mushroom

Spalt Your Own Lumber: Fungus of the Month - Oyster Mushroom

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The oyster mushroom isn't just a tasty treat - it can also spalt your lumber!

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What do you do while glue dries?

What do you do while glue dries?

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What do you do to maximise your time in the workshop? For me ..

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Going With The Grain-The Life of a Woodworking Student and Artist-in-Residence

Going With The Grain-The Life of a Woodworking Student and Artist-in-Residence

This is an introduction to a series of posts were I will be telling the tale of my trip through a four year University woodworking program. I will also be covering current events in my career along the way.

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Spalt Your Own Lumber: Fungus of the month - Dead Man's Finger and Turkey Tail (part II)

Spalt Your Own Lumber: Fungus of the month - Dead Man's Finger and Turkey Tail (part II)

See the photos that accompany part I on locating Dead Man's Finger and Turkey Tail.

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Video: Spalt Your Own Lumber: Fungus of the month - Dead Man's Finger and Turkey Tail (part I)

Learn how to quickly locate Dead Man's Finger and Turkey Tail, the two most prolific zone line producing fungi.

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Build an Interior Door: Part 2 - The Panel

Build an Interior Door: Part 2 - The Panel

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In part two of this blog, we build the panels, insert, and complete the interior door

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My $15.00 Shaving Horse

My $15.00 Shaving Horse

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Making a shaving horse doesn't have to be an expensive or time consuming project.

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