The Woodshop Shed
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adventures in woodworking and home maintenance, from my shop in an oversized backyard shed
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Details and Dimensions From a SketchUp Model
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One of the reasons I prefer to plan projects with SketchUp is how easy it is to extract information from the model. In my earlier days I prepared shop drawings with pencil and paper, and later on with a 2D CAD program. That type of drawing requires a great deal of care to ensure that
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The First Recorded Workbench
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The first time I saw an 18th-century workbench, I thought: Wow. That will never work. But then I built some of these benches (dozens, actually), and I am a huge fan of the form's stability, simplicity and purity. So the first time I saw a Roman workbench from 50 A.D., I thought: Hmmm. That would
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