When I quit my day job in early July it was as traumatic as a birth. As I walked down the back “employees only” hallway the last time as an official staffer, I cried like a baby while trying rather unsuccessfully to hide my face behind a vase-full of sunflowers. It was a pretty pathetic [...]

Tuesday night’s birdhouse workshop at the YMCA in Grand Rapids was a loud success. We had some craft club regulars and several first timers join us to learn some great woodworking tips from Dan Boy, the master woodworker I featured in Sunday’s craft column. I ended up bending more than my share of nails, but [...]

Hey, West Michigan readers! I’d like to invite you to the David D. Hunting YMCA in Grand Rapids Tuesday night to make a birdhouse with the Grand Rapids Craft Club. We will be hosting a workshop led by Dan Boy, the master woodworker I featured in today’s Grand Rapids Press craft column. The workshop is [...]

I didn’t make this birdhouse, but I’m going to make one like it next week when the Grand Rapids Craft Club hosts a local master woodworker who will be teaching us how to build one of these beauties just in time for Father’s Day. Look for details when my weekly column appears in the Sunday’s [...]

This scroll saw has been sitting in a box in my basement for a couple months and today was the big box opening event. Honestly, I don’t know what took me so long. (Aside from the fear of losing a finger or two.) It cuts wood like butter and has sent my crafty mind into [...]