Knocking on Wood

In the last week, an opportunity presented itself to take down some trees and get them cut into lumber. As I’ve said before, I enjoy woodworking, but I don’t really have a huge stash of wood supply aside from the leftover floor planks from our house construction, which were all…

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The First Cleaning

Once the floor outlets were finished and tested to be working, I was ready to start rearranging the tools and cabinets in the shop to test out some placement ideas. I also wanted to get in a good sweeping because the concrete floor had accumulated over a year of dust,…

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And So It Begins…

We recently moved into a new house that we designed ourselves. Included in that design was room for a basement workshop, which has so far remained in a mess full of unused tools. Near the start of this year, I finally bit the bullet and started getting it operational. I…

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