Posts in the «books» Category
- Wood and Tool Blogs I Read
I enjoy reading woodworking blogs. I find them a great source of information, ideas, and some personal tidbits that help give the rest some added context. I use Google Reader to read them all by way of their RSS feed. This lets me read the new posts anywhere in the world that I can login […]
- Galoot Books for Kids
I have two kids to thank for me getting deeper into the galoot world of using mainly non-electric hand tools. My nephew, who gave me a book called Diary of an Early American Boy that showed how things were built in the olden days of colonial America. It lead me to start planning the timber […]
- Starting Up
Background: Timber frame construction (often called post and beam) uses a method of large posts secured only with joints (wood puzzle pieces) and wooden pegs. After reading a great little book called Diary of an Early American Boy (a gift from my nephew) I got the idea to start designing a building that used no […]