Wood Thoughts #2: Yuz got skillz

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Do you have any favorite, little known, online woodworkers?

I was a strange kid. When I was in high school in the mid-nineties my peers were interested in watching Married with Children and playing on their PS1s. (I was still slumming it with my NES.) Sure I was happy to watch an episode of Married with Children; but if I flipped across PBS and the New Yankee Workshop was showing, I was going to stop and see what Norm Abrams was up to. (Though I am pretty sure it was Seattle Grunge Music that piqued my interest in flannel. Ahhh, … times.) As college and graduate school became my focus, woodworking was forgotten about. (Years of therapy later – not sure if it was for the forgotten woodworking or forgotten years – I have come to grips with it.) My need for books though led me back. SKERRRT!!! Books and woodworking, how in the name of Pearl Jam – or perhaps I should say Hoobastank since it was 2004 – did that fit together? After 3 years of college and 4 years of grad-school, with a 2-year hiatus to join the monastery, I had amassed a small library and needed a place to store them. A quick DIY project later and I had built my first piece of furniture #EVER.

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Wood Thoughts #2: Yuz got skillz