1 Year Blog Anniversary

When I started my blog 1 year ago, I wanted to post something at least once a week.  Well, I fell a little short on that goal, but not too far off.  I’m happy that I have continued with the blog.  So many blogs fall to the wayside, only after a short period of existence.  I never had high aspirations that I would draw huge numbers of readers, but there are a few of you out that return to see what I’m posting.  For that I thank you.

The year in review

Recently I was thinking how little I felt I had accomplished in the last year.  Then I started to look back at what I posted over the last year, and felt much better about what I accomplished.  I attended my first weeklong woodworking class with Christopher Schwarz.  I attended a great hand tool event, Best in the West.  I started the mock-up of the small hall table, where I did my first bent wood lamination.  I made a couple Silverware Trays as Christmas gifts.  Although, I still have a couple more to finish!  I built the Small Benchtop Bench, which was a very fun project.  I attended a 1-day class with Rob Cosman, who is an amazing teacher.  I hope I can take more classes from Rob.  I built a bathroom cabinet for my brother.  Although I used very few hand tools on this project, it was a very stratifying project.  Then to top off the year, I visited the Port Townsend School of Woodworking.  I met 2 great woodworkers there Tim Lawson and Jim Tolpin.  You often hear woodworkers are the nicest people and these guys were no exception.  Tim and Jim took time out of their busy day, to show my wife and me around the school.  I’ll be heading over to the school for a class in August.  With that kind of list of accomplishments, how could I have thought I hadn’t done much woodworking!

In the near future
Things have been pretty busy lately, so shop time has been a little scarce.  The good news is I will have a week off the first part of July.  I work for a great company and one of the benefits we have, is the company shuts down for a week around July 4!  We also shutdown for a week around Christmas!  My wife and I don’t have a lot plans for that week, so I should have a lot of shop time coming up!  I have some new tools I really want to try out and post about.  I also want to finish the small hall table I started around the end of last year.  I also have some new books and DVDs I want to share.  I hope this extra time off will give the time catch up on some posts.