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6 Days to Aurora – Day 3
Today, we got a glimpse of the final product as parts started to come together. The day was capped with few glueups, but began with the selection and prep of the table top stock. With such a beautiful table, it was imperative that we select a board with stunning grain. Even in [...]
Check it out!6 Days to Aurora – Day 2
We covered a good bit of ground today. We started by preparing the stock for the remaining parts of the table base and drawer. This beautiful piece of 5/4 mahogany served us very well! Not wanting to use any more material than necessary, we had to carefully plan and layout our cuts. [...]
Check it out!6 Days to Aurora – Day 1
I have my camera and I have my laptop, so why not go ahead and document my class? Today was Day 1 of what I am calling “6 Days to Aurora”. We are building Darrell Peart’s Arched Aurora End Table: an incredible modern take on some classic Greene & Greene elements.
Day [...]
Back to School
This week, I will finally make good on a promise. That is, a promise to myself to focus more on my own woodworking education. I’m heading off to the William Ng School for a class with Darrell Peart. Many of you probably already noticed that I have a good amount of interest [...]
Check it out!March Giveaways
We have some more great giveaways this month. Check it!
The FesCool Giveaway:
Win a Festool shop apron and Mini-Systainer.
The Wood Whisperer Giveaway:
Fine Woodworking’s Archived Collection on DVD- Digital reproductions of the first 201 issues of Fine Woodworking magazine.
Malcom Tibbetts’ DVD, Lessons in Segmented Turning Vol. II – Tips, Tricks, and Feature [...]
New England TWW Meetup
A few chat room/forum regulars got together at their local woodworking show this weekend. Rob sent me this great picture and a brief synopsis.
“Four of us TWW regs ended up meeting up in person for the first time at the Boston Woodworking show yesterday. From left to right in the attached picture, Lance [...]
An Interesting Collaboration
Our buddy Germain just informed us of a very cool collaboration taking place over at the Sawmill Creek Forum. Numerous members are getting together and collaborating on a single box project. Each member does one part of the process, then mails the box to the next person in the list. When its [...]
Check it out!February Giveaways
We have another great month of giveaways here at TheWoodWhisperer.com. Here’s whats up for grabs:
The FesCool Giveaway:
Win your choice of an ETS125, RTS400, or DTS400 sander!
The Wood Whisperer Giveaway:
Fine Woodworking’s Archived Collection on DVD- Digital reproductions of the first 201 issues of Fine Woodworking magazine.
A ToolKing.com $100 gift certificate.
Malcom Tibbetts’ DVD, [...]
Great Deal on My Favorite Forrest Blade
Hey folks. I don’t normally give you guys price alerts on the blog. Especially now that we have a Sweet Deals section in our Forum. But this is one that I didn’t want you to miss out on. You hear me talk about the Forrest Woodworker II saw blade all the [...]
Check it out!FesCool Giveaway December Winner
Congrats to Fred Cook, our lucky winner of a Festool ETS125 sander!!
Our new challenge question is posted for January so head over to the Fescool Giveaway Page for the details!
2008 Recap
Well, 2008 was a heck of a year for the woodworking community. We saw an incredible explosion of new blogs and podcasts and Twitter is now a household word for many woodworkers. We witnessed the birth of a new conference (Woodworking in America), the success of which proves that despite all the technology [...]
Check it out!THIS Is Carpentry – A New Online Magazine
Just recently, carpenter extraordinaire Gary Katz released the first issue of his new online magazine, “THIS is Carpentry”. Its available for FREE at THISisCarpentry.com. Interactive articles, informative and interactive ads, video content…….this one has it all! Now I don’t know about most of you, but I often wish I had a greater [...]
Check it out!The Northeast Wood Whisperer Federation
This email was sent to me from Mike (MuddlerMike) just yesterday. A historic occasion indeed!
Monday the 15th marked a new chapter in Wood Whisperer history. A confluence of the paths of three Wood Whisperer disciples culminated in the first meeting of the Northeast Wood Whisperer’s Federation. This Wood Whisperer offshoot, satellite group, faction, [...]
A Week of Projects
With Christmas fast approaching, its crunch time for those holiday projects! And for those of you who are good planners, you probably have your projects done by now. I would love to post pictures of your finished holiday projects all this week. Maybe it will give some folks a few last-minute gift [...]
Check it out!Nov. FesCool Giveaway Winner
A big congrats to Nathan Redd, who scored himself a free Festool apron, measuring tape, and safety lenses. Thanks to all who entered. And thanks to our sponsor Festool for continuing to supply us with great prizes!
Check it out!New Line of Lee Valley Planes
After a couple weeks of somewhat cryptic hints in their online ads, Lee Valley announced today a new line of planes. And they are kicking it off with the launch of two new block planes. The first is the DX60 Block, which is the reworked replacement for their old standard block plane. [...]
Check it out!Marc and Nicole on How I WoW
Many of you know that Nicole and I are gamers. Our primary game being World of Warcraft. Well, our friends Patrick and Shawn do a podcast called “How I Wow”, where they interview various folks around the web to discuss how Warcraft fits into their lives and other game related stuff. We [...]
Check it out!Sawstop Inventor Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is
Many of us are well-aware of SawStop and their finger-saving technology. They came on the scene a few years ago showing us that the machine will apparently cut everything but a hot dog. That was cool an all, but apparently when cable TV is showcasing your product, you need to kick it [...]
Check it out!Woodworking Community Happenings
As many of probably already know, there is an incredible conference taking place in Berea, KY called Woodworking in America. The conference is the brainchild of the folks over at Popular Woodworking and simply put, its a galoots dream! From vendors to seminars to hands on classes, its all about hand tools! [...]
Check it out!Gadget Station is Internet Famous
Last week we finally had a chance to deliver the Gadget Station to Leo Laporte. We actually had a chance to be on his show TWiTLive.tv and Leo was incredibly grateful. You can hear him discuss the gadget station on a recent GizWiz show: Giz Wiz #682. As an added bonus, [...]
Check it out!The Voodoo of “The Schwarz”
Nicole is on a business trip this week and that can only mean one thing: I’m watching woodworking DVD’s every night! haha! Well last night I fell asleep watching one of my favorites: “Coarse, Medium, Fine” by “The Schwarz”. Prior to dozing off, the weirdest thing happened. I had this [...]
Check it out!The Zombie Whisperers
Nicole decided to have us Zombified! We met a cool guy named Len at the New Media Expo who is apparently an artist. He does these drawings on the side at Monsters by Mail. Enjoy the little video!
Check it out!IWF 2008 Recap
I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport, sipping my Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, and there’s no better time to recap my time at IWF. After 4 days of demos and conversations over very loud woodworking machines, I actually still have a voice. Last year I lost my voice after day 1, and this year I [...]
Check it out!The Wood Whisperer Yak?!?!?!
A message from chat room regular, MuddlerMike:
What started out as typical stupid banter among the day chat room crew has turned into a long standing inside joke. One afternoon back in April, we experienced a pleasant chat room visit from a friendly Bosnian woodworker. In an effort to boost Marc’s ego and help him appreciate [...]
Gadget Station Ideas (Pt. 2)
Here are a few pictures from Ray. I know many of you expressed interest in a smaller station that might fit on a table or desk, and Ray has given us a great example of this. Here is what Ray had to say:
Its not a full gaget station but quite functional for the [...]
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