Mortise and Tenon Magazine

October 22, 2018

Design

...ars ago I decided to declutter some of my eclectic interests (goodbye beer making) and focus on upping my carpentry and woodworking skills. Partly, this was out of necessity. Our house needed some work and those skilled with planes and hammers are busy building custom staircases for Barbara Streisand and don’t have the time for a 980 square foot bungalow in the HaFoSaFo district. I took a few classes, subscribed to some woodworking and home buildi...

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Weekend Linkages: Window Fail

Mr. Homegrown

July 10, 2022

Saturday Linkages

4 Comments

...I’ve been obsessed with making frames for the past week so excuse this link to some very nice . . . frames Strawberry Hibiscus Butter Great podcast episode on the problems with AI–extra points for mentioning my thesis advisor George Lewis Thames barge break Ugh...

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A Grand Rapids End Table

Mr. Homegrown

October 26, 2020

Design

12 Comments

...working project I tackle seems to come along with a lesson learned through making a mistake. A previous project taught me that I should take more time deciding what to make. As a woodworker, since you can make whatever you want, you might as well make something interesting and custom sized for a particular spot in your house. With this end table I took my time looking for the perfect piece to reproduce. While the Arts and Crafts thing is way out o...

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A Sasquatch in the Garden?

Mr. Homegrown

November 6, 2020

Gardening

8 Comments

...g this foot cast might be by the same aspiring artiste. Or maybe it’s the work of an aspiring Sasquatch researcher practicing making plaster foot casts?...

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Happy Cranksgiving

Mr. Homegrown

November 25, 2020

Thoughtstylings

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...ent’s new closing guidelines and came to the conclusion that they are just making stuff up on the fly. Some things are open and some closed and it’s obvious that the decisions aren’t based on any research since their probably isn’t any. When you see a multi page list of directions for “model airplane facilities” you know they are winging it. Again, the solution is simple. In a surge like we’re having right now, close everything except what we need...

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