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How To Make A Lit Prom Sign

A quick and easy build for my local high school. The cost of renting a lit up prom sign was $900! That’s crazy! Instead of renting, I made a set of letters they can keep for less than $200 in material cost. I donated my labor cost to help out. Ea…

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Turning the Corner: Segmented Porch Post Column Base

For the February 2022 issue of Wood News Online, Temple Blackwood shared his process for turning a replacement porch post column. One of my regular contractor customers came by some time ago with an interesting problem that he decided I would be the perfect person to help him with. An elderly customer of his had […]

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Don’t Know Where to Start? Three Ways to Work Wood!

Two roads diverged in a wood and I — Took both; and a third, fourth, fifth, sixth… Briefly, I started woodworking with 3D design, followed by rough carpentry, finish carpentry, 2D design, handheld CNC, gantry CNC, fine woodworking, finishing, hand woodworking, carving, etc… Today I spend hours each night hand cutting pin and tail boards […]

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Turning the Corner: Carriage Seat Spindles

For the March 2022 issue of Wood News Online, Temple wrote about a project where he had to turn twenty-four replacement spindles for a horse carriage seat: One of my new customers wrote to me and explained that he is in the process of rebuilding an antique horse carriage and needs to replace twenty-four white […]

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