Larry | March 8, 2010
There’s an old story of a cobbler who has quite a following of happy shoe owners. But somewhere in the story we are told that the cobbler’s son has no shoes. This story is used as a moral lesson in several contexts and I’m not here to quibble with any of them. But I think [...]
Larry | February 25, 2010
Less than a month ago I broke down and bought a new coat. This is only significant if you understand that for the past couple years I’ve been wearing a coat that, each time I needed to zip it up, I had to fight with a zipper that was well past its prime. My office [...]
Larry | February 22, 2010
I’ve been a blogger for a bit more than a year. I never thought of it as a money-making venture and, in fact, it’s lived up to those expectations. But if you’re on the Internet you can’t help but notice that there are lots of people making, or at least claiming to make, lots of [...]
Larry | February 15, 2010
I’m struggling with the design of the vanity area of a bathroom, as described in a previous post. While I’ve been keeping SketchUp warm, everything I come up with looks like a big box and I’m not sure what to do about it. So, I’m coming to you. Any and all ideas will be appreciated.
Here’s [...]
Larry | February 13, 2010
I suppose I’m a curmugeon but I oppose the very notion of spending $4-5 on a piece of paper that will end up in the trash the day after it’s given. And so, every time Valentine’s Day rolls around I’m faced with showing my Valentine(s) that I care without succumbing to the card marketeer guilt [...]
Larry | February 10, 2010
Sometimes I wonder about myself. I’ve been a woodworker for a long time but like so many, I did most of my early woodworking by flipping a switch. But I’m a guy and guys like tools. The notion of having an excuse to dig through piles of rust at flea markets was appealing
So somewhere in [...]
Larry | February 8, 2010
First let me apologize for the “pre-release” of his blog post. It was just me screwing up posting dates. Anyways, here it is…with words and pictures.
I’ve been distracted from the shop, playing Mr. Fix-It, and my woodworking time has been spent navel gazing and some doing some sketching as my aged brain grapples with what [...]
Larry | February 1, 2010
We often find ourselves building a cabinet or furniture piece for a particular space. I thought it might be useful to report on my actions as I stumble through the design and creation of a set of bathroom cabinets.
I must start with a confession. Years ago, in a galaxy far, far away…no, that’s another story. [...]
Larry | January 31, 2010
When I started this blog my thoughts were to record some of the activity in my shop. To be honest, there wasn’t much thought about that either. It just seemed the thing to do at the time and I had no expectations that anyone would care to read it.
It seems I was wrong. The readership [...]
Larry | January 24, 2010
I’ve waxed poetic, in my way, about Tom Fidgen’s Made By Hand book. I’ve also documented the building of a set of shop bents illustrated in this book. But the good stuff about this book continues. Tom has moved his brilliance from his old blog, Working Wood to a new website called the Unplugged Workshop.
The [...]
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