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January '07 Newsletter
 | Woodworkers Resource Newsletter |  | | Where Information meets Inspiration! | January 2007 | | | Welcome Woodworkers of All Ages Welcome to all the new subscribers who have joined our newsletter. Thanks so much for letting us into your homes! Keep sending those suggestions on how I can make this newsletter better. We would also like to hear any questions you have about this newsletter or on woodworking in general. If you are having questions about something, then chances are several people are too, so speak up!
Happy New Year!!
It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone. I'm sure that just like for myself, 2006 was a year of ups and downs for you. I recently went back and looked at the goals that I set for myself back at the beginning of '06. Many things I did accomplish but several things fell off the radar screen (who's the person that wrote, "start running three mornings per week" in my goals?). Writing goals down on paper has always helped me to get more things accomplished by keeping me on track. Here's the sections that I use: Financial, Physical, Personal Development, Spiritual, and Social. Then within each section write a heading for 5 years, 1 year, and finally Today. Start with the 5 year plan for each section and work your way backwards to what you need to accomplish "today" to get you to your 1 year and 5 year goals. We all have goals in our head of things we want to accomplish, but I'm a firm believer that if you don't commit it to paper you're not likely to do much to achieve those goals.
Craig Stevens | | Featured Woodworker for January | |  I’m continually amazed how generous woodworkers are in general with their time and knowledge of the craft. Dr. Popp is no exception. I recently had the opportunity to sit down in Rick Popp’s home and talk to him about his views on working with wood. Everywhere you look in Rick and Carol’s home you see examples of beautiful furniture that he has built. Their home is warm and inviting and a place that I immediately felt relaxed. This is no accident, as I learned in talking with Rick, the environment in which they choose to live is planned and the furniture that Rick fills their living space with is just as carefully planned.
I know you’re going to enjoy getting to know Rick just as much as I did. So pull up a comfortable chair (and if you don’t have one that’s comfortable, after reading this article you may be inspired to build one) and get to know a fellow woodworker.
Click on the link below to read the rest of my interview with Dr. Rick Popp.
Featured Woodworker | | Just for Kids! | |  Here's a couple of woodworking sisters with dad that built bird feeders of their own design! Dad has been woodworking for awhile and wanted to take some designs he had seen from several feeders and combine the features that he and the girls liked best into one bird feeder. Great job girls! I especially like the way you both decorated your feeder with bright colors. What bird in his or her right mind wouldn't want to dine at these feeders?
Being able to design your own projects whether a bird feeder or an armoire, is what every woodworker should strive to do. Building off plans is a great way to start and learn woodworking and build your skills, but you will always be at the will of someone else's design. When you get to the point of being able to design your own projects, that's when woodworking takes on a whole new level! | | Stationary Power Tools | |  Finally were going to talk about the big guns-the tools that you see in all the TV shows and all the pictures of "serious" woodworking shops. I'm going to go though the list of stationary power tools that I think make up a basic shop. Again, if you're just starting out in woodworking and you're not sure exactly what kind of woodworking you want to do, don't go out and empty your savings account buying all these tools. The best advice that I got when I first started woodworking was, "buy tools as you need them". Tool companies do a great job making you think you couldn't possibly build anything without their latest and greatest tool. Talk to other woodworkers, join a woodworking guild in your area, visit on-line discussion groups on woodworking, (the best known is rec.woodworking), and see what others are saying about tools you're considering purchasing. All the power tools that I'm about to mention have less expenses tools that will do the same job. So why do we even need these bigger more expensive stationary power tools? Speed, durability, and repeatable accuracy. Stationary power tools are built to do certain tasks faster, there built to do that same task over and over again, and they are built to cut wood as accurate on the first piece you send through them as the last piece. Let's take a look at our list.
Click on the link below to go to our website to read the entire article.
Woodwork ersResource.com | | NEW Gift Shop Now Open! | |  Come visit our new Woodworkers Resource Online Gift Store! We have all kinds of gifts for yourself or the woodworkers in your life. We have several products, T-shirts (for men, women, and children/infants),sweats, hats,clocks, mugs, and much, much more. Presently we have 16 different graphics to choose from and we'll be adding more frequently. There's our Woodworkers Resource logo items and many woodworking sayings to show the world just how you feel about your craft. Here's just a few of the saying you'll find in our gift shop: "I'd Rather Be in the Shop", "Got Wood", "Measure Twice Cut Once", "A Bad Day Woodworking is Better Than a Good Day Working", and many more. If you have any ideas of other sayings that you would like to see on our products, let me know, we may use them.
To kick our new gift store off we're offering a Valentine's Day special now through Febuary 14th if you order $50 or more you'll get FREE shipping! Just use the promotional code VDAYSHIP at checkout.
Click on the link below and check out the NEW Woodworkers Resource Online Gift Store Today!
Caf epress.com/woodworking4u | | Websites To Checkout | |  Did you read through the article on stationary power tools and think to yourself, "if only..." Well, check out the two links below for a chance to win your very own shop full of tools!
Rockler Shop Give-Away
Not to be out done, Fin ewoodworking is also giving away a shop full of tools.
Hey, if you win, remember you heard about it from me. I could sure use a few new tools myself!
Here's a neat little tool that all the woodworking forums are talking about. T he Wixey Digital Angle Gauge. Just set it on a flat surface to calibrate it, then set against a surface to check the angle, like when you're trying to set a tablesaw blade to 45 degrees. I haven't tried this tool out but it looks interesting. | | Correction Notice for Woodshop 101 for Kids | | On the cutlist for the "Two for One Birdfeeder", in our book, Woodshop 101 for Kids, the dimensions to cut the dowels to were left off in some books. On page 142 the dowels should be cut as follows: (7) 6 3/4" and (1) 9". Sorry about this. If you have bought a copy of the e-book or a hard copy recently, your copy should have the corrected information.
That's it for this issue. Remember, send me those e-mails about what you want to see in future issues, nominate a fellow woodworker or yourself for the Featured Woodworker section, and send in any Tips and Techniques that you would like to share with us. The next issue will be out the second week of Febuary. Also, if you like what you see in this newsletter and you know of someone who would be interested in having it sent to them, simply click on the "Forward Email" button that's just below the newsletter. You can even add your own comments to the person before sending it. And last but not least, click on the "Update Profile" hyperlink below and check the boxes that apply so we can put out a better newsletter that has the information that you want to see. "Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." - 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18 | |
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