About this blog

I want to share my projects with the general public because I was inspired to get into this hobby by looking through similar blogs. I figure here I might be able to inspire someone else to pick up the saw and get in to this themselves. I also hope that my projects that I show can provide ideas that others can build on, or reuse for their own needs.

Any advice I provide, or designs I share are free to use at your own risk. I'm not an expert, and not a professional, but I sure do love the craft!

About Brian

As a kid I told my parents I want to be a carpenter when I grew up. They were understandably skeptical about that. After all how many five-year-olds follow through and become what they say they want to be? I'm pretty sure I've also wanted to be an astronomer, astronaut, fiction author, and at least several other things.

Largely my dreams of carpentry had faded away by the time college came around, and I turned myself into a software engineer. Building software is interesting and fun, but you can't reach out and touch it. One of my former co-workers, Scott, was an avid woodworking hobbyist and he rekindled my interest in building stuff out of wood. Most of my projects these days might fall more under the area of joinery, but I also have worked on a few projects that might fall under carpentry.

Inspirations

Several amazing wood-crafters have inspired me to build and create, and I'll list some of them here.

• The Woodwright's Shop

  with expert crafter, Roy Underhill

• Christopher Schwartz

  a furniture maker, author, and also researchers traditional woodworking techniques

• Frank Klausz

  a master jointer with many videos on YouTube

There are loads more interesting people sharing their work on YouTube and Facebook, so I encourage you to look around.

How is this blog made?

I've used a combination of Gatsby and React for this blog, while I am storing the code in a github repository. I am hosting the website on Netlify and using Cloudinary for all my image and video needs.

The inspiration for how I built this was from a crash-course by TraversyMedia on YouTube