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the woodworker's journal Stymied in the Shop Do you ever get overwhelmed by the nearly unlimited possibilities that your woodshop presents to you? 1 must confess that sometimes I do. I have, on more than one occasion, wandered out to my workshop enthralled with the idea of spending a lew hours in woodworking bliss, only to find myself stymied as I step across the threshold. It is not simply the fact that before I can start just about any project, I need to spend 20 minutes or so cleaning up after the bum who used the shop before me. (OK, usually yours truly... but that's beside the point.) What i am talking about is the plethora of pleasurable projects that are sitting there like plums to be picked: Should i turn a bowl? (A recurring favorite of mine lately.) What about making stands for my guitars, or a display case for some of my shotguns (notice the plural usage on those nouns — I can assure you that my wife has). And speaking of my wile, what sort of projects adorn her list of must-build basics? I can tell you from experience that they tend to move to a priority position in the hierarchy of possible projects. And speaking of familial projects, my son and I have no less than three guitars in the shop — one of them a 1930s resophonic — gathering dust and needing to be rebuilt or upgraded in some way, each one representing many hours of necessary shop time. (You'll just have to trust me on this: like woodworking clamps, it is simply impossible to have too many guitars — or shotguns, for that matter.) It is this wide array of woodworking options that can stop me dead in my tracks as I stand in the doorway of my shop. But when you take the big picture into consideration, it is such a great problem to have. Especially in these troubling times (but even in good times for that matter), to be able to spend hours working on a craft you love is something that should not be taken for granted. It's important to remember that a shop is not only a place to build and repair things, but also a space to enhance a segment of our lives and a city of refuge all wrapped up in one. So in that regard, I hope that you, too, are sometimes overwhelmed by your good fortune. A spalted walnut bowl I turned recently. It's in my daughter's office holding paper clips. ^ wwHVodHvrtersjootnal.com ■ xmorg on the web UnisawTest Run Video: A funny thing happened as we were wrapping up the last magazine. For budgetary reasons, we had to cut a few pages at the last minute. When we did so, we mistakenly lost the only two textual references to our video examining Delta's new Unisaw. (You can see that this is not so much funny "ha. ha." but funny "oops!") In that I I-minute, two-part video, we provide an in-depth rundown on what makes the Unisaw tick (as promised on our last cover!). It was a bad mistake, and we apologize for the omission. Hopefully you can visit us online and check out the video: www.woodworkersjournal.com/unisawvideo MAY/JUNE 2009 Volume 33, Number 3 ROB JOHNSTONE Editor in Chief JOANNA WERCH TAKES Senior Editor CHRIS MARSHALL Field Editor JEFF JACOBSON Senior Art Director JOE FAHEY Associate Art Director MATTHEW BECKER Content Coordinator LARRY N.STOIAKEN Publisher DANA SEVERSON Advertising Director ALYSSATAliER Advertising Operations MARY TZIMOKAS Circulation Director KELLY ROSAAEN Circulation Manager LAURA WHITE Circulation Assistant Founder and CEO ANN ROCKLER JACKSON Editorial Advisors NORTON ROCKIJ3R JOHN KEI.UHER Contributing Editors MICHAEL DRESDNER RICK WHITE GEORGE VONDRISKA ADVERTISING SALES J.F. Van Gilder Company 12740 Hillcrest Plaza Dr.. Suite 295 Dallas, Texas 75230 DAVID BECKLER davmjvgco.com JACKIE SMITH jackie@jvgco.com JIM VAN GILDER jim@jvgco.com Phone: (972) 392-1892 Fax: (972) 392-1893 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations EDITORIAL INQUIRIES ROB JOHNSTONE rjohnstonetfwoodworkersjournal.com 765-478-8255 JOANNA WERCH TAKES ltakestfwoodworkersjournal.com 763-478-8303 CHRIS MARSHALL cmarshalltfwoodworkersjournal.com 614-746-2985 SUBSCRIPTION INQUIRIES (800) 765-4119 or Write Woodworker's Journal. P.O. Box 56583, Boulder, CO 80322-6583. email: uioodworkenjournal@neodata.com. Include mailing label for renewals and address changes. For gift subscriptions, include your name and address and your gift recipient's. BOOK SALES AND BACK ISSUES Call: (800)610-0883 www.woodworkersjournal.com VISIT OUR HOME PAGE: ©2009 Rockier Press Inc. Printed in USA 10 |
