Over the years of building things with wood, I have taken two approaches. If the project is shop related, I only focus on functionality. Beauty is nice, but beauty takes time. Shop projects, at least thus far, are meant to make beauty easier, but I take more satisfaction in the way a shop project worksContinue reading “Perfect Imperfection”
Category Archives: Woodworking
Glorious Mistakes
Over the years of going to the workshop to design, cut, plane, straighten, drill and mortise, rout, sand, glue, assemble, and finish whatever project I am working on, I virtually always make a mistake or have an unfortunate slip-up in the process. With wood this eventuality is inevitable in the non-production home shop, at leastContinue reading “Glorious Mistakes”
Tools
Woodworking has been a passion of mine for two decades. When my family moved to California in 2002 I inherited some tools from my granddad, who had upgraded and turned houses in his retirement years. With a table saw, a router, a circular saw, a saber saw, a belt sander, and a few other powerContinue reading “Tools”
R Jackson Painter, PhD 