Evenfall Woodworks Blog

Evenfall Woodworks, the blog of Rob Hanson, should be on your RSS feed, bookmarks, stickies, links page, bloglinks or whatever is the current buzz-thingy for keeping track of the impact the internet has on our daily lives.

Rob manages to pack a load of good stuff into the confines of the Blog, that virtual voice we have come to both love and loathe. Love it for the opportunity to experience the thoughts of people we most likely would never have met... loathe it because we most likely still won't meet them in person. But, that is the cruel, cruel life of the blogger.

It's a pain to try and fit your thoughts into this narrow little window. Rob does a really nice job of fitting a lot of words in without wasting his breath. I'm not sure if you can waste breath in a blog. Words perhaps. Back to Rob. His latest post, Creativity In Hardware Storage, gives you a reason why you should make this a regular stop-in. At first glance I assumed Rob would be covering that age-old conundrum: "What do I do with all these extra nuts 'n screws 'n doodads left over from assembling Junior's tricycle?". I figured on an interesting review of some modern hardware storage cabinetry, some new fangled gadget from one of the modern tool-makers or a new magnet with the gravitational force of jupiter for storing your extra hardware on a pegboard.

No. Instead what I found was a thoroughly enjoyable and light-hearted review of the history of hardware storage, followed by a truly librarianish (yes, that is a compliment) description of making hardware storage equipment from every-day castoffs. All done with a totally straight face no less. Rob manages to take the most mundane topics, as well as some of the most vexing (when is square really square?) and turn them into readable prose. Such as "it is a good shop practice to sneak up on the final sizing you need". I am putting on my rubber soled shoes, pulling a black mask over my face and sneaking up on a jointer as you read this...

This is not to say that Rob takes a light approach to his topics. The core of his content is totally serious and eminently useful for the beginner, average or advanced woodworker. Rob succeeds in taking complex or esoteric topics and making them readable and understandable. And that my friends, is harder than it sounds.

If you have not yet left my superb blog to check out Evenfall Woodworks, you really should. Now.

I have one question for Rob... who is the Agnes in the post "Sharpness Flatness Godness Agnes!"?

Till next
Gary

PS: Rob informs me that Agnes was the end word of a saying his great-grandmother used to use: "Goodness Gracious Godness Agnes". Although I still don't know who Agnes was...