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Well guys, I think you have given me enough confidence. I have made the purchase. Now I need to find some helping hands to haul it back to my shop.

Bill -

Good point. I'm willing to try. I guess if I lived in Jointerburg, I would have no excuse at all :-)

Dave - Not an uncommon question. I will try and spell it out phoenetically. Hopefully I won't violate the laws of physics :-)

Properly pronounced, it is STCHEA - PINE - SKI, but your 90% of the...

Thanks Mike. I kid because I love, but I feel fine assembling and some of the basics, but when things go wrong, the diagnosis of the problem can be more difficult then the repair.

For example,...

Jointers are basic tools? Wow. Don't I feel inadequate. I guess that's what happens when an art major starts to tinker. But I'm used to it. My wife knows more about cars then I do. :-)

I am on the verge of buying the Grizzly G0586 8" Jointer. I was at the Baltimore woodworking show this past weekend to see if I cold get a better price, and one of the salesmen was giving me the...

Here are some photos of my latest furniture project. The client wanted to make a piece of furniture from a childhood tree that had fallen in a storm. She managed to save a cross-section of the...

A long time ago...

In a yard just behind my house...

A workshop was being built, and it still is.

Well it has been a while since I have made an update on the site, so here is where...

I have a CMT mortising bit that needs sharpening. Is this something that I could do by hand, or should I send it out to be sharpened? If having it professionally done is the better option, does...

I have been asked to make a coffee table out of a slab of wood from a client. This slab of wood is a cross-section of a red oak tree that the client would play in when she was a child. She would like...

It wasn't too bad. The last row really got me though.

Hey. I could have been worse. I could be making the whole thing out of stone ;-)

Mike -

Thanks. I am hoping the weather stays cool as well. I get a fair amount of shade, except at around high noon. I'm really exposed to the sun and the heat then.

Jeff -

Welcome to the Creek. Nice looking shop. The wife might be your greatest shop tool.

This past weekend I installed some roof sheathing on the North side of the roof. Instead of starting with the row of sheathing at the eave end, I squared and snapped a line where the second row would...

After the award was rendered, they hand you a book on collecting. Essentially, there are a couple of ways to collect on the judgement.

- He pays me the money outright (highly doubtful though)
- I...

Greg -

I got the link to work. Wow! This site is great. Thanks for finding/creating this.

These past three days had a small event, and a large one. On Saturday, the small event occurred. Alice and I managed to cover the East gable end with housewrap. Not a big deal, but another small step...

Greg - These tools sound great, unfortunately I have not been able to access them. The pages won't load.

I do have some good news to report. I can start working on the shop again. Two Fridays ago, May 5th, I went back to the P.G. County Permits Office and got a new permit. Unforutnately it cost almost...

Kelly -

In my county, the permit is good for two years, and you must have at least one inspection every six months.

The Stop Work order doesn't say why my permit has expired, but I beleive it...

On Wednesday I cam home to find something I didn't like. A "Stop Work" order was placed on my door. Since I hadn't had an inspection in 6 months, my permit has expired. Now, not only can't I work on...

Greg -

That is a great idea for a shop, especially for the cost. You can use the chalk boards for your cut lists and the hooks to hang your saws :-)

Bill -

Ahhh. I see. I wasn't thinking that way. I was thinking it needed to "overhang" like I have in the diagrams below. To accomplish that "overhang" I needed a spacer. But your methods don't...

Bill -

If I don't provide a space, then the fascia board won't overlap the siding. If I put the fascia board directly on the sheathing would I need to put a drip edge on the bottom edge of the...

Over the last three weeks I have finished up a lot of small items that need to be completed before I can start the roof sheathing. These included:

-Installing blocking for the wall sheathing...