Galoototron

We found a new house a more quickly than I thought we would. And it’s in… New Jersey. Central Jersey, in particular, if you believe that such a place actually exists. (There’s apparently so...

https://galoototron.com/2024/02/01/there-we-went-again/

I’d mentioned a year ago that I would be moving at some point. Well, that’s finally happened–partially. What that means is that I’ve moved out of my old house and into a rental. Because t...

https://galoototron.com/2023/11/02/here-we-go-again/

I posted a new video of the hand-tool work done while making a replacement stair nose for my porch. It features probably way too many tools for its sub-4-minute length. This project and video, li...

https://galoototron.com/2023/07/30/new-video-stair-nose/

It seems that I’ll be moving again. Perhaps “liminal” is not the best term here because I seem to move on a fairly regular basis, but I want to use that word and there’s nothing you can d...

https://galoototron.com/2022/10/29/oh-the-liminality/

Squaring up small workpieces has been a pain for me as long as I can remember. It’s not unique to me; several old publications also mention the problem as well as making a longer shooting board...

https://galoototron.com/2022/05/01/long-grain-shooting-board-notes-and-new-video/

I made a little video with some mortising notes, including the grain-direction tidbit that I posted about a while back. Aside from some sweet mortising action, it features an impersonation of a r...

https://galoototron.com/2022/03/11/new-video-mortise-notes/

For the first little bit of this year, I’ve got a small goal of organizing and cleaning up. The biggest problem I have right now is wood storage. The first thing I did to address that might see...

https://galoototron.com/2022/01/31/tidying-up/

With its ability to flatten wide stock quickly and effortlessly, one of the things that my planer sled design has enabled is a little more flexibility and ease when I need to glue up something wi...

https://galoototron.com/2022/01/11/preparing-wide-glue-ups-for-the-planer-sled/

Shop time has been limited, yet nonzero, in the last couple of weeks. Other than a bunch of cleaning up down there (which has gotten much easier as I find better ways to organize), I finally set ...

https://galoototron.com/2021/12/15/plane-for-shooting/

With a decade and a half on this blog’s odometer, I got to wondering if I really have any more of a clue now than I did 15 years ago. Recall that I started this blog when I started woodworking....

https://galoototron.com/2021/12/04/15-years-of-galoototron/