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For my purposes a tool chest was useless. Chris Becksvoort , woodworker, 2001 My studio got converted into the laundry room. The room upstairs with a south facing window is now my studio. I spent most of yesterday moving tools and workbench up a set of narrow stairs and put everything on the floor. A panoramic view of my new space I've been so busy with life, work on the house and property, along with a regular day job, I haven't made much time to make proper storage for all of my tools. Now, I am faced with the challenge of making a tool cabinet, which will a wonderful thing to make. I pared down my tool list to what you see in the above photo, my days of tool collecting are over because I own too many tools! I have a feeling that I will be hanging most of the every day tools on pegs on the wall and I will make a cabinet of drawers and doors to hold tools that I use every now and again. The plan is to convert the garage into a work shop, but I don

Trees are our life. Merle Burnham, my father I found some notes I scribbled down on what I have learned about wood working. I wrote them as a response to some blog posting that was on one of the woodworking blog aggregators, I don't remember what the post was, but it made me a little mad. Maybe it was something about a current fad in wood working or some new book that will make you a master woodworker. Anyway, here some thoughts on wood working. Learn how to sharpen a knife first, then a drawknife, a hand plane iron and a hand saw. Don't make what is popular, make what you want to make. Make a shaving horse. Buy the best tools you can afford. Go to a school if you must, you learn much by working at your bench making mistakes and succeeding at projects. Build the work bench that you want to build, not one that is the current fashion. Learn the old traditional techniques first. You can start with books by such authors as Bernard Jones, George Ellis, W