The Woodshop Shed

For Those Who Love Books, Travel & Joinery

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When I was a kid, I used books to escape from my (boring) Arkansas upbringing. Today, I use books to escape from the drudgery of air travel. Every room in our house is full of books, and there is never enough room for them all. So as a woodworker, I'm always building more bookcases that stack on top of other things, including other bookcases. This week I started building []

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When Weird Chests Look Less Weird

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For most of my life, I thought wood that was grain-painted looked like an unprintable bad word that rhymes with bass. Many pieces of furniture were grain-painted to make a less-expensive wood look like a nicer wood. During the Arts & Crafts era, pine was painted to look like quartersawn oak. If you go back in time a little further you see plain woods that were painted to look curly []

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