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It’s that time of the year again when the seasons change. Before, though, they never changed in my shop.

I had quite a surprise when I started putting together a “sample set” of wood species.

Milesi Wood Coatings is a brand of IVM Chemicals SRL, which is one of the largest and most influential wood coatings manufacturers in the world.

I used to really like dark stain and used it on almost everything. Now, I rarely touch the stuff.

Remember your very first real shop? Sally was digging around through photographs and came across a picture of my very first real, permanent woodshop. Oh, I’d been woodworking for more than a decade, but it was always in a not-a-real-shop location, like the patio, driveway, porch or any other area where I could swing a hammer and make some sawdust.

Now, there’s a leading question. One could be facetious and say something glib like ‘dishes’, but the truth is that for many woodshops this can be a complexing issue.

When you alter an in-progress project, the changes wind up as waste material unless you consider the possibilities.

I’m not really a forgetful person, but in the woodshop I do tend to misremember what I own.

One of the things I like about cherry is how its color changes over the years. That’s also one of the things that bugs me about it.

The old proverb goes, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” I wonder how many steps I’ve taken to reach this point?

I clean my woodshop frequently, but lately I’ve been feeling pangs of guilt at how much money was ending up in my dust collector.

Woodworking is an art, so it’s only fitting to surround myself in my woodshop with more art – in a manner of speaking.

Working on two major projects simultaneously, I didn’t have time to play around. So, I made time.