The Renaissance Woodworker

I recently started playing with an iPhone app called Audioboo that lets me record 3 minute or under audio clips and publish them direct from my phone. It even lets me attach a picture and they will cross post to my blog. I’m having a lot of fun with this and plan to use it [...]

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I have been playing with this little app on my iPhone called Audioboo that lets me record 3 minute clips and publish direct to the web. Right now the “boos” are linked to my Twitter account so if you are not following me then you better get on the stick or you may miss out [...]

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Registration for the October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Woodworking in America Hand Tools and Techniques conference in scenic Valley Forge, PA is now open. By now y’all have probably already learned this through the grapevine but I am going to add my two cents. A lot of the criticisms from last year were that the [...]

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By now I’m sure many of you have read about the Hand Tool Olympics coming to Woodworking in America in August. If you haven’t, then head over to the Popular Woodworking blog and read all about it. Basically it is a series of events designed to test the woodworker’s ability to dimension and try a [...]

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Many of you may not be surprised by this, but I hadn’t noticed yet. Lie-Nielsen has signed up on YouTube and has started posting videos. There are several on line now but this particular video was really enjoyable. This is a side of tool making that many of us will never see. Having been to [...]

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For all of you that have been listening to my turning related podcasts and thinking about making the plunge you must check out the sale that Woodcraft is having on Sorby turning tools. Many of you may have already received this flyer in the mail but I wanted to highlight it here since Sorby makes [...]

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As with a lot of woodworkers in my generation, I came into this passion completely plugged in. If I couldn’t do it without a power tool, it couldn’t be done. As I started to refine my work it was amazing to me that suddenly I was pulling those old planes I inheirited off the shelf [...]

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I cannot say thank you enough to Marc Spagnuolo, The Wood Whisperer, for conceiving of safety week in the first place. I know we will all read and see a lot of posts this week about horror stories in the shop. I have to admit that I have been blessed and very lucky in that [...]

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Right before my wife and I head off to work every morning, we shout throughout the house, “day care time!” and suddenly the house is filled with the sound of pounding feet as my Golden Retriever, Alex, and Shepherd/Lab mix, Clarence, come tearing down the hall tails wagging. For the most part, they are both [...]

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Well, I finally got my site up and running and I figured it would be fun to add this little element as an outlet for me to talk about everything that is going on in the shop. More than that, this is a small business just getting off the ground and I think there could [...]

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