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This week’s question comes from SGT Grigsby, a Serviceman in Italy who asks: “I am exiting the Military in a couple of weeks and on to Furniture-making school (Thank you GI Bill), My questions are: when you decided to start your own business, what was your formula for self success? How...
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n. Good luck my friend. Matt’s reply: Thanks so much replying, and especially the same day! I thought if I heard from you at all it would take weeks! I will be placing an order for the DVD in the coming days. Meanwhile, it may be hard to answer this question without seeing the project, but...
Again?!?! Every time Woodworker’s Safety Week rolls around, I can count on at least a few folks saying, “Haven’t we covered everything already?!” Yeah, I’m talking about you Shannon. Ha! Honestly though, it is a valid question. After all, how many times can we talk abo...
The Wood Whisperer is proud to announce the first annual Woodworker’s Safety Week. Every year, during the first full week of May, I hope the woodworking world will join me in taking some time to refresh our memories about the importance of safety and proper techniques. Most of you probably ...
Once again, Woodworker’s Safety Week is fast approaching. Starting May 2nd, you can expect many of our blogging and podcasting friends to discuss various safety-related topics and I will aggregate the links here for your convenience. As always, the goal is to look at this as a yearly refreshe...
Every year during Safety Week, I like to spread the love a little and share links from my fellow bloggers and podcasters. Last week, I was quite distracted with website trouble so here’s a quick list of links that were brought to my attention. If you have a blog and you wrote a safety-related...
d carpet tape. It’s a little thicker, and even the blue painters tape. We also had someone write in that says he was building cabinets this past weekend and started pondering the question of designing the cabinets to encourage them to be square on assembly. What other techniques can you sugges...
So this morning, I started reminding people that it was Safety Week. This is the result of having way too much on my plate and getting in from Atlanta last night at 10pm. I totally forgot I already postoned the even till next week. So since we have a whole week yet to be unsafe, I thought it wou...
Usually by this point in the week, things are slowing down. But as you can see below, the community contributions keep rolling in! Timber Frame Tools – Best Practice is a Safety Habit Splintered Board Podcast – Safety Week 2010 (Pt. 2) Stu’s Shed – 10 Safety Tips Sleep...
One of the most common battles between man and wood involves blotching. How many times have you applied a stain to your latest masterpiece, only to be greeted with a blotchy splotchy mess? If you haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing blotch, its a phenomenon that occurs when a board takes ...
Welcome back to another episode of Wood Talk Online … a little late … or early depending on your point of view. This week’s episode starts out with Marc and Matt sharing their most recent experiences from the past week, some shop related and others not so woodworking related. We...