Spalted birch
Keep your eyes open ladies and gents, you never know where and when an unparalleled wood treasure will wash up on you desert ile. I was recently given a couple of birtch branches by a retired arbidder....
View ArticleRolling pin hardware
Great comments on the rolling pins fellas. You are right about the lags. They are abit unsightly. Reseacing them and adding a plug would be a good solution, but it would also take more time. Don’t get...
View ArticleNew Masters
I found my christmas present to myself in a hastings on the way to Spokane Wa for christmas. It was “The New Masters of Woodtuning” not to be confused with “The Masters of Woodturning” printed about 15...
View ArticleTime
I have come to see a photograph as a good analogy for woodworking. my new year resolution is to make more pieces for sale as oppossed to doing mostly commition and ordered work. This “photo” theme is...
View ArticleI've got the blues
An upcoming piece on my project page will be the new bunk beds I’m marketing. The one I’m working on now is biult out of blue pine. These two words have become a dirty word in the fine woodworking...
View ArticleI Never Use Plans
I started woodworking seriously when I was in junior year of art school. I was sick of my profs telling me how to do this and that, and mostly what this and that meant conseptually. I knew to continue...
View ArticleThe Art of Wood #1: Lets Make Some Plans
Wow, thanks for all the response on my last post! I love it when woodworkers get passionate and lets face it no one can show passion like a woodworker. I got a lot of great insite from you guys. I also...
View ArticleThe Art of Wood #2: Learning
Most all of the projects that come through the shop are things that people didn’t know that thay could have done. In addition most of my projects, the ones that are a big enough deal to post on LJ’s,...
View ArticleBack to the computer
The holiday has given me a few moments to catch up with posting on LJ. Got the swine flu then a stumach flu only days apart. Did you know that it you can’t go out to the shop no work get done. I...
View ArticleWood in the 21 centery
Hey, check it out Rogue is finally in the 21st centery!! We just got the new site up. Its nothing fancy but neither am I. This has been along time coming. I’m sure some of you can relate when I say...
View ArticleRespect
I don’t know if this is how I was supposed to use this function on LJ but I understood the “buddy” section of the page to be a way to show cast those on LJ that truely inspire me. I saw it as a way to...
View ArticleThe Art of Wood #3: Keep It Simple
I was reading my email the other day and got a Rockler add promoting there line of gigs. As I went to work that day I just couldn’t find a place in my processes for these expensive and specialty gigs....
View ArticleThe Art of Wood #4: Why Wood?
I like wood because you can put stuff in it. I don’t mean you can make a box and fill it with things. That’s not the kind of stuff I’m talking about. I mean the sort of stuff that makes us willing to...
View ArticleI can do that
When you comment on something nice that a person you meet has, have you ever noticed the way they say, “I bought this here” or “I picked this up in this country?” Sometimes it seems like they are...
View ArticleRogue Fine Living #1: Natural Lines- the work of Jeffro Uitto
If you’re a crab or a seagull on the Washington coast, there is one guy that has just become a part of the coastal scenery. His rugged figure just blends into the coastline. Blending in is helped by...
View ArticleRogue Fine Living #2: Standerdize
There is possibly no greater challenge for functional art than standardization. For most makers, you’d sware it was a four letter, get-your-mouth-washed-out-with-soap, filthy, word. If you dare to...
View ArticleRogue Fine Living #3: Bed of Power
In this world of 4gs, Ipads, and Jpegs, we have more power than ever before. Never has it been so easy for an artist to share their work regardless of distance. I can contact a customer hundereds or...
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