What does Woodworking Beer and Wine have in common

What does Woodworking Beer & Wine have in Common?
Well its our Woodworking Plans...

Beer: Beer Bottle Adirondack Chair & Footrest Woodworking Plans
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Wine: Wine Barrel Adirondack Furniture Woodworking Plans
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New Lumber Yard Eutree com

Saturday afternoon I took my neighbor and fellow woodworker John Stephens to visit a newly advertised lumber yard. This was the post I spotted on the Atlanta CraigsList:

Hardwood Lumber Sale
All lumber is Commercial Kiln Dried. All lumber is 4/4 unless noted. Minimum purchase $100, may offer package for all lumber in one stack.

Quarter Sawn Red Oak - 4 to 11 inch width and very clear, most will grade FAS - a portion has already been surfaced to 7/8ths. $2.50BF

Quarter Sawn White Oak - FAS Grade - $3.00BF - Some very large 6 and 8/4 sections perfect for bartop or judges paneling.

Black Walnut - 6 to 7 inch wide - $4.00 - some may be 8/4
Cherry - 1Common and FAS - 4 to 12 inches wide $2.75 to $3.75
Assorted Beech, Persimmon, various species also onsite and available.
Assorted Artisan Slabs and Hardwood Flooring also onsite and available.
All species are available already surfaced for a small charge.
We will be open to the public this saturday between 1 and 5. Our company is Eutree Lumber and can be viewed at www.Eutree.com

I thought the pricing looked very good and went to the website. As many of you know Im a web geek, chronic recycler/restorer and something of a design freak - I thought both the web design and messaging were exceptional. Although many of the smaller lumber providers in the area have a similar method - buying trees downed by tree removal services for lumber - this was the first company that really extends the idea of using that as part of their marketing message (the web concept is that they dont "mine" forests, instead only preparing lumber made from hand-picked timber provided by tree removal services, in case the above doesnt make sense and you dont feel like going to the website).

I picked up John around 1:30ish and headed down to Mableton (thats on the west side of the perimeter right off of I285). As we drove, I realized that we would be going right past Hardwoods Inc (Eutree is on the same road heading south). There isnt a sign but an entryway on the Eastern side of the road - if you go youll see huge trees stacked in the background with drying stacks on the North side and a couple of front-end loaders. I parked on the left next to this:

Im not sure if you get the scale of that log - its about 40 inches in diameter. I was greeted by one of the partners, (no longer with the company), who added us to tour he was giving to some other visitors. These are the warehouse shots:

Stacks of dried Red, White and QS Oak

Stacks of dried Cherry, Maple and Walnut

Wide Oak Boards

Slabs and Specialty Lumber

Those spalted maple slabs you see are from a 20+" wide log - its also cut at 6/4 so you can see the thickness - what a beautiful table youd get out of that one piece!

Really Beautiful Walnut

 So when you look at the photo above, youll see some really beautiful walnut that hasnt been steamed to that muddy gray color - one of the main enticements for using a small specialty lumber yard like Eutree is to get your hands on something with some character. This walnut is really exceptional.

Couple of slab tables

 One of the partners is actually a woodworker - the advantage is that he knows what to look for in unusual timber and species.

Milled lumber air-drying, waiting for the kiln (man I need to get lose some weight! My friend John Stevens in on the left.)

More air-drying stacks

Founder (no longer there) shows the width of some QS boards

Slabs on a front-loader

The sawmill

Some of the largest Holly Ive ever seen

To give you an idea of scale

Imagine what you can make from this Holly!

Eutrees newly built kiln

Two 6/4 Persimmon boards I purchased

Holly Log and 8/4 Spalted Maple Slab

Two Persimmon boards waiting to be added to my stacks

Before leaving I spied some really beautiful 6/4 persimmon - those went home with me along with a couple of gifts Joel offered me for a club raffle - a 6-8" diameter Holly log and an 6/4 spalted maple slab.

Overall I enjoyed my visit and tour of the yard quite a bit. I met two of the partners (One, no longer with the company, and Sims) and discussed at length what would interest area woodworkers the most in lumber. I stressed that unusual species that are atypical would be more marketable than those species that everyone in the area carries. Also thick cuts - their prices are already really good. They also expressed some interest in perhaps doing a presentation to the GWA class. The business is young, but that also makes them very flexible and I think theyre off to a good start. If youre in the area you should definitely give them a try.

-- John

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Fine Woodwork Plans Learn How To Choose

Learn How To Choose Fine Woodwork Plans
Fine Woodwork Plans For Beginners - How To Choose The Right One
Learn To Select The Right Fine Woodwork Plans For Your Needs

All rookies need to find fine woordwork plans that matches their skills. The best thing to do is to start with an easy project that you will be able to finish. Finishing a project will most likely make you feel very satisfied and it will probably be the first of many woodworking projects for you.

In the beginning you dont have to come up with your own woodwork plans. It can be a bit tricky to create woodwork plans and you can use already existing ones in the beginning. You will be able to find plenty of them on the net but also in magazines and books. You dont even have to buy all the books unless you want to, you can visit the library and borrow a few suitable books with woodwork plans.

Its important to remember that every woodworking project needs to be planned. You will be able to avoid making unecessary mistakes if youre using woodwork plans for all your projects and it will help you save a lot of time as well. There are many reasons why you should spend enough time on the planning part of your work before you go ahead with the constructing part. The chance that you will succeed and achieve the result you would like to get is much larger if youre using one of the good woodwork plans that can be found in books and magazines. You can also use something that you find on the net but its important to remember that you have to check the accuracy before you follow one of these since the net is full of unverified information.

As soon as you get more experienced you might want to come up with your own special woodworking plans. It will make all your furniture more exclusive and special since they wont look exactly like the furniture that other woodworkers create. Its certainly a lot more fun to create your own items without copying someone elses plans and this is necessary if you would like to have the woodworking craft as your profession in the future. Its actually possible to make quite much money from woodworking if youre skillful, patient and careful.

Its not always easy to choose woodwork plans for rookies but you should try to use books and magazines instead of the Internet as often as possible since you will get more accurate results by doing that. You should also start to create your own woodwork plans as soon as possible since that will make woodworking even more fun.

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Brad’s Router Table

From: Brad Lockwood

Location: Stratford, CT

Hobbyist or Pro: Hobbyist

Project Name: Router Table

Wood Species: Birch Ply/Maple/Polar

Finish Used: Standard Stain with General Finish Dye stain, 3 coats of General Finish Wipe On Stain. I also used Shellac on the top.

Project Description:
This was my second project and I needed a good Router table. I wanted to see the effects of different finishes on different woods and what happens if I don’t do the light sanding after the water base stain. I also wanted to practice dovetail, rabbet joinery, inlay (t-tracks for the miter and fence). I also ordered and installed the Jessem Router Lift, which I bought after watching Marc’s router lift segment. Marc was right on with his analysis in my opinion.

As you can see from the full front photo, I fully integrated the dust collection using hose connected to the fence and a pickup from the router cavity. I placed plexi-glass on the door to the cavity and placed a light in there as well that turns on when the router is on. The very bottom door area is for storage. The left side drawers are sideless as I drilled holes to hold the bits. The Top right side drawer is a false front to hold the switch and the 3 lower drawers are half blind dovetails using the MLCS jig.

I learned a lot about finishing, dovetailing, drawer guide mounting and many other techniques as well. Now I have a top-of-the-line table and lessons learned. So as my friends say, this is the most furniture like router table east of the Mississippi.

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What to Post on your Company Facebook Page

These tips were published in an article on Mashable.com by Ekaterina Walter: 10 Tips for Posting on Your Brands Facebook Page. For the full original article please click here.

By now, the word “Facebook” has become such a household name that it’s likely your brand is already on Facebook. Company Facebook pages are a very useful social media resource when updated regularly but efficiently. In a recent Mashable article, social media strategist Ekaterina Walter poses a central question to building Facebook relationships with potential customers effectively:

“How [do] you engage those fans and sustain a meaningful online dialogue with your customers. Facebook fans will only want to engage with us if we serve up relevant content and truly participate.”

The key word there is engage, but that’s easier said than done when you’re busy in the shop and running a business and don’t have endless amounts of spare time to devote to your “desk work.” Thats legitimate, and often times the only way to use a tool efficiently is to understand the components of that tool and really pin down what youre hoping to gain. If the aim of your businesss Facebook is to spread awareness about your brand and build engaged consumer relationships, then knowing about which posts are seen and how is helpful.

Walker calls readers’ attention to EdgeRank, this is Facebook’s News Feed algorithm that helps display “relevant” stories. “The News Feed only displays a small subset of stories generated by the friends and brands users engage with the most,” says Walker. “The more popular your story, the more likely it is to show up in peoples News Feed. News Feed optimization becomes as important as your content strategy.”

Okay so we’ll start with those 2 ideas, (1) Engaging, conversation-starting content (2)Newsfeed optimization. In her full article, Ekaterina elucidates ten strategies for achieving both engaging content and newsfeed optimization. I’ll boil down Ms. Walker’s first pointer below, but check out her full article for useful, in-depth info on this subject.

#1 Tip: Don’t Automate Your Status Updates

Resist the temptation to feed your blog posts or your Twitter updates directly into your Facebook Page. It may be a short-term time saver, but automated content often doesn’t make it into users’ News Feeds (which means it gets buried and they don’t see it). Your fans can also tell the difference between “auto” posts and customized one that you’ve wrote with thought, so taking the time to write legit posts carries rapport with your fans (your past or potential customers).

This doesn’t mean you have to sweat about updating your page constantly, it’s just a reminder that putting in the extra few minutes when you do get around to updating your Facebook is worthwhile to engage your fans and show up in News Feeds.

CustomMade.com is an online marketing resource for woodworkers and creators of custom products. These marketing tips are intended to help you grow your online presence as a woodworking professional seeking to build a relationship with online shoppers. For more info on online marketing and joining the CustomMade community click here.

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Shed Plans 8xFine 2 Fine 2XFine 6 Precisely what Sizes Is available

Shed plans, 8x12 and other measurements, come in numerous kinds of styles when searched for inside the appropriate areas. Currently, we simply cannot discover very good blueprints as well as plans from the areas we might more than likely seem, locations which usually wise practice seems to see people that could be the best place to locate them, it appears.

By way of example, organic beef want to try looking in a few newspaper, regular monthly journals upon patio along with shed building or perhaps woodwork for instance, in order to find small images and also modest schematics sent upwards in the sides regarding a number of content articles about greater garden attention.

We would think to attend the nearby catalogue of these, but also in virtually any textbooks generally there, there are just the tight number of plans inside of, instead of automatically the size and style we would like pertaining to shed plans, 8x12, 10x16, as well as whichever.we might ought to change the maths, as well as which the actual nightmare would like to do this? Certainly not us, companion -- as well as anyhow, this sort of textbooks are often just mostly devoted to producing suggestions in particular design techniques and methods.

Guides which usually float surrounding this subject available from the books part of property offer manufacturing facilities are usually just about exactly the same, plus intended for uplifting your would-be DIYer about what to be able to simply by within the outlines regarding timber and also products. Yet shed plans regarding 8x12, 10x16, 8x8 and also 8x12 plus much more all can be seen on-line, able to end up being saved inside teams of lots as well as a huge number of styles to pick from. This is actually the the easy way find cool, difficult, strong plans and also blueprints which arent taking part in subsequent mess with a type of articles inside a publication over a wide range of products. If you need to merely discover blueprints and also plans, on the web is discover these people.



Shed Plans 12x16 along with other Proportions Exactly where Can we Locate them?


Shed plans, 12x16, 10x12, or another sizes we would search pertaining to... where is where to watch out for these types of, in any case? This indicates so faithfully to locate these types of inside the normal spots we may initial want to appear -- the ebook part of the most popular residence present manufacturing facilities, a nearby selection, woodworking periodicals and also guides about outdoor patio and also shed building and in many cases on-line. Typically even so, we are let down whenever we locate simple small features and also blueprints pressed away from to the place regarding a few web page brimming with post materials around the optimal way to be able to sludge hammer a new darned claw, or perhaps just how to prepare your own lawn place to get several foo-foo type of backyard restaurant.However when we have been seeking shed plans, 12x16 for instance, we have to look for a way to obtain plans which can be this -- actual-factual plans, rather than just a number of itty-bitty schematics.

Wed like suitable blueprints that may guidebook us all over the proper path, the entire approach, to be able to setting up a sound composition that may remain high up against the weather conditions, damage. Nevertheless, exactly where can we uncover these types of? There are several web sites offering these types of throughout offers associated with lots, as well as countless numbers, Precisely why? For the reason that with regard to shed plans, 12x16 is probably not for all, neither 8x12, or perhaps whichever. Additionally, there are numerous styles per group of dimensions variables, therefore pertaining to 12x16 for instance, there can be lots of numerous styles and also details in accordance with several aspects such as just what function the particular shed would certainly provide.

Consequently, you need to manage to pick through a lot of, a lot of styles that will fit the bill particularly. To discover these kind of, we have to look online, simply because online is wherever carry out locate them just about all.



Searching for excellent assets on the net will take time for it to get the best. To find the best source of a large number of succinct building plans, go to this site about shed building plans 12X16

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