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Like everyone else, I store a lot of work and woodworking-related files, magazine & journal articles, plans, images for ideas/inspiration, and other documents on my computer.  However, I am on the go and I regularly use several different computers at home and work (not to mention my Droid and iPad).  As a result, my files were scattered around, and difficult to find when I needed them.  Worse, when I copied one file to other computers, I could never be entirely sure which version was the current updated version.  That’s why I now have Dropbox installed on all of my computers at home and work, and even on my Android phone and iPad.

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This is a great tool for spreading wood glue quickly and evenly over wood surfaces. It’s a soft rubber roller called a “brayer”, made by Speedball. This can be found in the ink stamping section of your local craft store. [Read more →]

I recently started working on some basic gymnastics skills, and I decided to use my woodworking skills to make some home-made rings. See my gymnastics rings page for details on how they’re made.

I made a pair of bedside tables out of cherry, in the Shaker style, with hand-cut dovetailed drawers and tapered legs. Go to my Bedside Table Project page for more details.

My Maloof-Style Rocker Project is by far my biggest project to date, but alas it is still unfinished (as of November 2007). I fully intend to finish this – all that’s left is the final joinery and shaping. Of course, that’s still an awful lot of work… but I know I’ll get around to it one of these days!

My shop workbench was by far my most ambitious shop project. It is a real beauty of a bench, and incredibly useful – I don’t know how I ever managed without it! Take a look at my Workbench page for details about the bench and how I built it.