Tools and Workspace
Why More Makers Move Their Workshop Into a Steel Building
My garage workshop worked fine until the day I needed to run a table saw and my partner needed to park a car at the same time,...
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Otis builds furniture in a one car garage workshop and teaches a weekend joinery class on the side. He writes about wood the way he teaches it, slower than most guides and honest about the cuts that go wrong first.
Tools and Workspace
My garage workshop worked fine until the day I needed to run a table saw and my partner needed to park a car at the same time,...
Tools and Workspace
I built my first detached shop two winters ago, a plain sixteen by twenty box set behind the garage, and I spent so much of my...
Woodworking
I bought a hand plane at an estate sale a few years ago purely because it looked interesting, and it took me an embarrassingly...
Woodworking
A neighbor who runs a small farm noticed my chisels drying on a shelf after use, no oil, no real care beyond a quick wipe, and...
Woodworking
A student in my weekend joinery class once made a genuinely risky freehand cut close to a finished edge, pulled it off cleanly,...
Tools and Workspace
I watched my nephew play through a fast paced round with a friend last year, both of them calling out positions in short, exact...