A lot has changed in the shop, at least as far as layout goes. I haven’t bought any new tools of note; I didn’t need any, and I spent half the year just getting my left arm working at something approaching full strength again....

The sling is gone, and I’ve got most of my range of motion back. I can’t lift or move much with my left arm yet, but I have managed (with some help from my sons) to get the shop ready. Google created this panorama of my...

Not a lot has changed since 2021, relatively speaking. Many of the pain points I had then, I still have. But I have acquired a few new things that are proving useful and improving my work. Back wall now The back wall is almost completely...

I did a quick fix on my assembly/work/outfeed table, because it badly needed it. Most of the table worked fine, but the top … the top had problems. It’s only 3 years old, but it has developed a really nasty sag in the middle,...

I’ve wanted a jointer for a long time. Never bought one. The main reason for that was floor space. A floor model jointer needs a lot of space on either side to actually use, and typically it goes against a wall or behind another...

We recently had a home energy audit, prompted by a winter in which the downstairs (main floor) would be 10-15 degrees colder than the upstairs. The main takeaways from that were (A) my furnace, which was original to the house in 1997,...