INTRODUCTION

With retirement on the horizon, we decided to buy a cabin. Having been raised in a large extended family of craftsmen, we rarely hired anyone to do work for us; we did it ourselves. So, with the new cabin now ours, I had a lot of work to do.

First, I made the beds from aspen logs found on the property, then the lamp tables and coffee tables. The adirondack chairs for the fire pit outside I made from old cedar fencing.

While cutting firewood, I noticed many interesting shapes and colors in the wood. This inspired me to make vases, bowls and candle holders out of some of it rather than burning it.

Now I was hooked on woodworking again and I needed a workshop to do more.  I spent many years and long hours researching,  designing, reorganizing my shop, looking for project ideas and better techniques to make them.  I have shelves full of books and magazines plus lists of too many websites to ever look at again.

The thing I discovered about all of this information overload is that each one of these items was limited to the author’s own ideas and nothing more.   I did find several Facebook discussion groups like Woodworking for Beginners to be excellent learning/inspirational resources; however, they are limited scope.   A Facebook post is a great place to have a discussion, share links and photos but it is not a good place to share detailed plans and instructions or extended pieces like you find in a blog:

SO THE PURPOSE FOR BLOG IS TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS:

I’ll start with many of my own thoughts, ideas and experiences, and going forward add to this page with yours.

PLEASE SHARE YOUR

*Workshop design and setup
*Tools gadgets and techniques
*Project plans, issues and solutions
*Even your own blog posts or ideas for future blog posts

https://artisticfirewood.com/index.php/sharing/