Around The Shop

Here’s a little of what’s been going on in the shop. It has been a busy few weeks with lots of projects. Here are just a few highlights. Custom built in for an apartment. Trying to help with the sneaker storage. The third THIRD! donation desk is ready to get dropped off Friday. I love this little program. I really hope it takes off. I need to make an easier plan, because I hate making the desk at this point, but I love the end result. We’ll see what I come up with. Keep spreading the word. Every project sold is a donation desk. Next I made a shadow box for a friend to display his art work. He told me to use whatever I had on hand. I was going to use some old deck cedar, but since this may be on display to the public I milled up some beautiful Sapele and I think it came out awesome. This was my first time working with homasote and I hope its my last. Homasote is so messy. The dust is so light that it just flies around the shop. All this time I have been making way for and getting ready for my next huge, I mean HUGE project. A 9’ by 5’ dining table. I had to move tools around, order tool upgrades, and even bought my very first jointer. I can’t wait for it to get here! I’ll post about that when it arrives. I have been practicing with all my hand tools on my new microJig Moxon Vice. I love this setup, so easy to put up and take down. Clamps boards in any direction. Just great. I still reflect on how far this shop and I have come in the past 2 years. This shop used to be something very different and now it is such a huge part of my life for all the right things. All of this wouldn’t be possible if I wasn’t grateful everyday. “Be grateful for what you have and don’t worry about what you don’t have.”