My old Delta cordless drill, drilled it’s last hole after four plus years of service. It was a 14 volt drill that served me well. The drill is in decent shape but the batteries would not hold a charge long enough to drive a 2″ drywall screw. To replace the two batteries would cost over [...]
MMWG Christmas Dinner
Jan 5
In early December the Mid-Michigan Woodworkers Guild held their Christmas dinner/fund raiser. This year our members elected to raise money for Ele’s place. http://www.elesplace.org/
ELE’S PLACE IS a healing center for grieving children throughout the Lansing and Ann Arbor regions. Ongoing peer support group programs help hundreds of children and teens to cope with the [...]
Why Wood?
Jan 5
Why Wood?
Because wood is visually and spiritually inspiring. It can be a source of motivation, inspiration and even frustration. Wood speaks to you with the silky voice of a smooth maple curl or as boldly as a plank of Oak. It can fill the voids with dreams and wonder. It can make time stand still [...]
Innovative Woodworking Tools
Dec 29
I just viewed a short video on the The Wood Whisperer Community http://community.thewoodwhisperer.com/video/a-mans-gotta-do-what-a-mans
On this video Marc used his wife’s mixer to complete a task in the shop and it reminded me of the time I used my wife’s deep fryer to make some bees wax polish.
It’s a simple process, using the deep fryer as a [...]
What’s your favorite finish?
Dec 10
What is your favorite type of finish for your woodworking projects and how did you arrive at that choice? This is not a question about which finish is the best or harder, (unless you only build the same thing over and over) it’s about what is your favorite and why.
The first thing that I thought [...]
The basic router class that I was teaching that day had just finished and I was perusing a pallet of maple boards at Johnson’s Lumber. http://www.theworkbench.com/ The lumber was setting off to one side of the warehouse, waiting to be loaded into the storage rack. I thought that this would be a good opportunity to [...]
The Cherry inlays were done with a router, 1/8″ router bit, template guide and a plywood pattern.
Masking tape was used on the table top and all the references were marked on the tape for easy viewing. The start and stop positions were marked on the tape and a pencil mark on the router base [...]
Sofa table made of Jatoba (Brazilian cherry) with Ebony inlays.
This table measures 15″ x 40″ x 30″ high.
Sofa table,console table or hall table, this table is know by several different names. One thing is true about all of them, their style and function will fit into almost any decor. They can be tucked back into [...]
Quality
by Doug July
Quality is meeting someone’s need,
a teacher’s job is planting that seed.
What a wonderful experience it must be,
watching that flower grow from one seed.
Quality is power, freedom, love and fun.
The quality needed is different for everyone.
Quality is doing your very best.
And then finding out there [...]
