June 19, 2013

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Get Woodworking Week – 2013

  If you are new to woodworking and you are looking for information on the Internet, you have found a rich source of information.  With the Internet you will get the good as well as the bad.  Although, I do feel there is more good out there then bad.  I’m only bring this up, because [...]

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MWA Podcast Episode #8

Sorry for long absence from posting on the blog.  Life as been busy.  So much so, I haven’t been in the shop for months!  I have this next week off, and hope to have quality shop time!  I also have some house/yard chores to do, so I hope those don’t take away from too much of my shop time. [...]

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TV Stand – Base

I’ve had some time to start on the TV Stand/Console.  There have been some ups and downs with this project.  The construction has been moving along quite nicely, without any real issues.  An “incident” that happened during the project, was that my planer spun the pulley that was connected to the cutting head. When the [...]

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TV Stand – Started

My current project will be a new TV Stand for our Living Room.  I’m building the stand out of European Beech.  I’ve started milling some of the lumber and have started on the legs and stretches of the base. This project is going to have a lot of Mortise & Tenons and Frame & Panels [...]

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My hardest woodworking challenge yet

Over the past couple of months I’ve been dealing with pain in my right elbow. I went to the doctor and found out I have Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow). I haven’t played tennis in decades! So I’m renaming it Woodworker’s Elbow. This was brought on by a weekend marathon of hand sanding, on my Greene [...]