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A Mitered Corner Box

Most people don’t think much about boxes.We think about shapes and sizes based on what we plan to store in them. That’s about it. But, if you look around most of what we see are based on cube-ish shapes. Houses. Cabinets. Storage boxes. Cars. The list goes on. Yesterday, we took a brief detour from […]

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And So It Begins — Part 2

Here’s the follow-up to yesterday’s post on a couple of the cutting boards we were making.  They turned out pretty well. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see the beautiful patterns that the end grain makes on the beech cutting board. Sanded and branded! We are getting there!!!

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And So It Begins…

Today was a long and tiring day. Both of us spent the morning completing some necessary tool maintenance. And then we got to have fun! We spent this afternoon building a couple of prototypes we plan to place in our Etsy Store — very soon! The first – an end grain “butcher block” cutting board and second, […]

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A Heart Transplant (Of Sorts)

A table saw is the heart of most small woodshops. This weekend we decided it was time for the heart transplant. We replaced our trusty Delta Contractor-style saw with a more powerful Cabinet saw. “Why? ” you ask, would we do this when we had just managed to restore our shop back on an even […]

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All About Branding

A large part of building a small business appears to be about branding. Perhaps we’ve misunderstood the memo. We recently purchased and received a branding iron with which to brand our products. Here are pictures of our first attempts at branding. We love our brand and hope you do too. Note: Don’t heat your branding iron on […]