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Separating Design Wheat from the Chaff

The First and Last Boxes I made

Create through Evolution, not Revolution

I Can't Work Without My Layout Tools

How I Learned to be Creative

Work Slow to Work Fast

In Search of the Road Less Travelled

Keep a Shop Notebook

2 Tools that I love and 1 that I Absolutely F*%@ing Hate

2 Tools I love, and None that I Don't

I Always Make Mistakes in the Shop

The Difference Between Bench and Block Planes

What I Learned Making 4 Identical Tables at Once

Checking in From a Busy Week

10 Steps to Cutting Dovetails, Ranked

How to Fill the Gaps in a Dovetail Joint

3 Ways to Improve Your Dovetails

3 Hand Planes I Can't Work Without

Podcast Update

Shellac is an Easy, Beautiful Finish

A User's Guide to Milk Paint

Lessons from the Shop

I've Never Made a Perfect Box

How to Perfect a 4 Corner Grain Match

Squares! Squares! Squares!

Metric is Better for Furniture Making

Dovetails are Overrated

5 Tools that I Love, and 1 that I Don't

Build a Bath for Your Sharpening Stones

The True Cost of Every Tool You Buy

How to Price Your Work

Downsize Your Shooting Board

My Favorite Tool of All Time

Here's a Set of Drawings for You

Master the Bookmatch, Part 2

4 Tools that I love, and 1 that I hate

The Podcast has a Co-Host!

How to Pick Lumber for Furniture

Drawings, Dimensions, and Plans

Who Doesn't Love Pizza?

Let's Make a Box

Why Figured Woods Shimmer

Master the Bookmatch

3 Tips for Designing with Figured Wood

How to Cut a Miter, Part 2

Sharpening is a Technique, not an Art

A Furniture Maker's Life, the Podcast

How to Cut a Miter Joint

How to Make a Box

Make Furniture that Expresses Your Creativity

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Do Not Measure Twice and Cut Once

Design Begins with Limitations

The journey begins