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Amateur Woodworking Interests and Projects

A life-long amateur woodworker, I enjoy making furniture, picture frames, and "jigs":


Woodworking Friends

    Charlie Belden's Site CharlieB -- as he's known -- is also an amateur woodworker and, like myself, an owner of a Robland X31 combo machine.

    UnpluggedShop.com Luke Townley says his UnpluggedShop.com "is about peace, relaxation, tranquility, art, family, community, and respect for the wood we are working and the place the finished piece will have. That is why we call it Therapeutic WoodworkingT."

    (Check out
    Luke's list of "helpful" woodworking websites and blogs.)

    Gary Robert's Sites Gary -- like myself, a professional librarian with a penchant for woodworking -- runs the Toolemera Press website and the Toolemera Blog. Both sites feature books, trade catalogs, photographs and other ephemera related to early tools, trades, crafts and industries, and discussion. Material is drawn from Gary's personal collection and contributors.

    TJ's Woodshop, specializing in Heirloom Quality Fretwork and Intarsia

    Evenfall Woodworks Woodworking Knowledge, Skill Development, Discussion

    Evenfall Woodworks is an online resource for woodworking knowledge, skill development and discussion, offering articles, a large public domain woodworking library, useful woodworking references and links to other relevent woodworking information

    Ol' Dave's Woodshop - Where woodworkers are not all Pros - A site built around the interests of amateur woodworkers to help them connect to resources and information about woodworking. Many Links to resources to help woodworking enthusiasts to advance in their hobby or trade.

    Woodshopics: This is a great "ideas" site: -- from organizing and equipping your home workshop to a build-it-yourself router table and tool storage system. With everything free, the intent is to be a gathering place for the best woodworking tools, techniques, tips and a place to display your woodshop layout and projects.
 

A History ot the Amateur Woodworking Movement

An avid historian, at WoodworkingHistory.Com I am writing an online History of Woodworking, with a particular focus on amateur woodworking. An ongoing project, the history consists of

(1) A decade-by-decade Historical Narrative, comprising 12 chapters: -- click here for Table of Contents

(2) A Glossary of a wide range of woodworking terms, including their historical origins

(3) Appendices that explore topics related to woodworking's history

(4) Selected Primary Sources including:
    (a) Vintage Woodworker's Manuals

    (b) Catalogs of Old Hand-Held Tools and Bench-Top Machines

    (c) Historical Documents


Email me at ray@woodworkinghistory.com

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Recommended Websites for Tracing Woodworking History

Directory of American Tools and Machinery Patents  A database of patent info on power woodworking tools. Includes diagrams patentees needed to submit for obtaining patents. Use Internet Explorer Browser, and Broadband speed is nice.

Old Woodworking Machines  Dedicated to documenting vintage woodworker's power machinery. Links, pictures of restored vintage machines, old catalogs, discussion, many of 6000 members expert in the historical details of individual tools.

 



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