Several months ago, I emailed a guy asking him about a piece of equipment I saw in his shop online. We have the same mortising machine and I was having trouble setting mine up, mostly cause I didn’t read the manual fully. He tried his best to understand and help me, but I was a bit hopeless at the time. Eventually, I figured out the machine, but what developed after was a solid friendship.

In this day and age, sharing information is simple and highly appreciated, esp. when desperately needed. The quality of information, especially in the woodworking community, is also improving in what must be nothing short of stunning to the masters of old. Long ago, what would seem to take decades to learn and perfect, is now a simple search engine query… Read more