It’s been a good week made up of some really productive days in the shop, with several projects coming along nicely and another completed. As Hannibal used to say, I love it when a plan comes together. (Read More…)

When I look back to my first days as a staff writer at Woodshop News more than a decade ago, I recall that the name DeCristoforo jumped out at me. While I had been both a writer and a woodworker for some time, the world of professional woodworking was somewhat new to me. Sitting at my desk in those first days, I flipped through several issues of the magazine and was bombarded with the names of the professionals in the industry; Maloof, Flexner, Nagyszalanczy, Bird, Cliffe, DeCristoforo and dozens more. (Read More…)

I wrapped up my review of those seven cordless circular saws I spoke about a few blogs ago, and as I always do after one of these roundup reviews, I had to give my shop a thorough cleaning. (Read More…)

I should have written this last night, but didn’t because I got home late after a day of playing hooky. (Read More…)

Pet peeves; I probably have a hundred of them.  As you get older, you get more of them at a rate proportional to how much more and more things start to annoy you.  These days a lot of things annoy me.  When I was younger I was Dennis; now I’m Mr. Wilson. (Read More…)

Work for a living. Off to work. Work for food. Working for the man. Whatever works. And my favorite from Mel Brooks: Work, work, work. (Read More…)

It’s funny sometimes how a tool can surprise you with its accuracy, usefulness and all-round performance, both in good ways and bad. (Read More…)

This will be the second time I’ve used the word stupid as not only the title of this blog, but as the subject. But stupid is as stupid does, said Mr. Gump, and I did stupid. (Read More…)

My wife and I have always loved hiking, and as the weather gets warmer and more spring-like we look forward to getting back into the woods and on the trail. In the evenings after dinner a walk around the neighborhood tides us over till we can get into the woods. (Read More…)

So, how many of you lean to the left, and how many of you lean to the right? (Read More…)