Doing and making do.

As of today we're being hit with tariffs that will likely raise the prices on everything we buy or choose to live without. In the meantime, there is no better time to learn to make the things we need. 

In my woodshop I'm finishing a few things that are made to last a century or more, reducing our yearly investment in them. And we hope they'll be useful to users past the time generally allotted for things from the big box store that are making their way to landfills.  

When we make things for ourselves, we are also learning and growing ourselves. When we make things, whether a box, the table it sits on, or dinner, we're shaping the space around us and the neighborhoods in which we live. We thereby become better neighbors and better friends.

We may pay a bit more for hand crafted things that last and build the communities in which we live. Wisdom can come through the making of beautiful and useful things.

Not a bad deal. '

I learned yesterday about an article about making Legos that I wrote being published in Make Magazine, and an essay that I wrote that will be in The Hedgehog Review from the University of Virginia. I'll let you know when these are available for your viewing.

Make, fix and create...

Making round tenons on Shopsmith

This video is about using the Veritas tenoner and my 1948 model 10 E  Shopsmith to make round tenoned parts.

Make, fix and create...