You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste the afterlife? – IB/MM Daedlab Commandment #3: Don’t be a jackass. Make the slaves do it for you. Just make sure you and they both remember who number two works for. If you can already do it, don’t especially love to do it, and need to do a […]
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Lounge against the machine: DAEDlab commandments 1 and 2
DAEDlab commandment #1: NEVER let the machine do your job for you. Your job is not hacksawing, or filing, or grinding, or sanding, or lapping. These are not occupations, they are operations. These are appropriate tasks for machines. YOUR job is design, and the machines mustn’t interfere with it or they will take over the […]
Handworks 2015: Feel Good Hit of the Summer
That dude had way too little sex. -overheard at the fabulous studley exhibit The first real woodworking event I ever attended was the first WIA, in Berea, KY in 2008. It stands out in my mind for a lot of reasons, but mostly for the people I first met there. Many of them would become […]
Handworks 2015: Anarchy in the IA
So you’ve got your travel arrangements made, and you want to know what to expect of Handworks 2015: Return of the Jarvil. Well – personally, I suggest you prepare to get your metaphorical lunch money stolen. In front of that hot new chick from Arizona. While pantsless. Drink plenty of water, breathe deep, get a […]
Gimme Danger Chicago
If you’re around Chicago and not fearful of a little design and woodworking conversation, demonstration, and rip-your-face-off skill, then I highly recommend you get up on those tortured heels and get yourself to Jeff Miller’s emporium of woodworking esoterica this weekend. This is probably my favorite annual Lie-Nielsen handtool event, and that says a lot. […]
Big Black
Among other things, this week I finished up the largest miter I’ve made to date . It’s designated Daed Toolworks M5 (but you can call it Big Black) and to be honest, I don’t really see myself making a lot of planes this size. At 9-3/4″ long, with a 2″ blade and nearly 7 lbs […]
Surface Envy
I dig black. My wife (bless her) mocks me because other than blue jeans I really don’t wear anything but black and shades of grey. I blame it on overexposure to the 80s (united friggin colors of Benneton, anyone?). A few months back, I posted on the spectacular hammer made for me by Seth Gould. […]
Jack Royale
The beginning of most years, I take a week or two to do some shop reorganization and try to get some of the projects on my ‘want to do’ list crossed off. This year, as a break from labeling my hardware jars (really small screws, really really small screws, shoot me please) I took a break […]