Archive for January, 2007

How to start an expensive hobby cheaply and effeciently.

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Wood Working on the Cheap is a new venture that I’m going to start putting a little bit of time into.
I’m already tracking my progress, keeping receipts, and doing all of this anyway, so I figured I might as well publish the things I’ve learned along the way.
My personal goal is to be able to [...]

Tomorrow we cut more wood!

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Tonight I have four doors to finish sanding up and staining. I might try and get a coat of polyurethane on them tonight too. I’m not totally sold on that idea, but it sounds like a good one.
Tomorrow night I’ll be setting up the workbench again. I think I better belt sand some of this [...]

New varnernet.com front page…

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

It might violate standards, but by golly it looks better!

Standards violated: I put <div> elements in a bunch of <a>’s.
Why? Simple. Because it worked like I expected it to in FireFox and Internet Explorer 6.
I was able to use <div>:hover { }; to style the entire block element when the mouse was also in a [...]

Six cabinet doors down, Fifteen to go!

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

I woke up late this morning, ran some errands, came home and ate lunch, and then got the workshop set up in the garage.
I’m borrowing a miter saw, but other than that, all the tools are my own.
I put together the router table and the drill press last week. I’ve got a pretty nice setup, [...]