workshop Building Bookcases I've spent about two months out of the last year building two massive bookcases, and I'm planning to build a third and final one later this year. This post covers why I've taken up this project, as well as a few things I'
Book Reviews Shop Class as Soulcraft As a guy who is often out in the workshop building things before the sun comes up, I've been meaning to read Matthew Crawford's book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work for a long time. This winter, I finally checked it
Retirement Washing My Bowl For the holidays this year, we drove from Butte to Berkeley to spend Christmas with Megan's extended family. It was great to see people I haven't seen for a few years, and I enjoyed catching up with Megan's uncle Grant, who has been retired
workshop Restoring Grandpa's chess table My Grandpa Mahugh worked with his hands. He was one of the 10,000 workers who built the Fort Peck Dam, and after the dam was completed in the late 1930s he went to work there as a mechanic. In the 1950s, he moved to Bremerton, Washington to take a
workshop Building a crosscut sled Last week, I mentioned on the Jamie Samoyed's Pack group that I had finished building a crosscut sled. I should have realized that would be confusing, because that's a Facebook group about the lives of our sled dogs. So I've put together this post
workshop Building a Workbench Another long blog post. TL;DR version: I built a workbench, it was fun and I learned a lot, and now I've started using it. When I retired in July of this year, woodworking was high on the list of things I was looking forward to spending my
