New Adventure

Ok, so Pioneer was an adventure for sure, but not fulfilling.

Now I have a new adventure in mind.

I will hopefully be unemployed in roughly a week, and while it will be a welcome change, I have a certain amount of trepidation about what I have seen happen to others in this economy. So, I have devised a plan.

I have decided that I am going to try my hand at making furniture. Nothing too fancy or pricey, to be sure. I am looking at making small pieces out of reclaimed lumber, using traditional techniques... sidetables, bookshelves, etc. The idea is to look for work for ~20 hours a week, and spend my other 20 hours working with wood, and if I can make any money at it, I will come out ahead. I will be working entirely with hand-tools, both to avoid the capital investment in power tools and to add a bit of qwerkiness to the whole process. By using reclaimed lumber, I will further reduce the capital in the project. (In case it is an absolute failure, I will not be out much more than my time, and will hopefully have some new skills to show for it.)

So, this blog will now become a chronicle of the process of learning, building, growing, etc. Should be a pretty good adventure.

First up, I have ~300 lbs of Douglas Fir beams that I got for $40. It will become a Roubo woodworking bench, based on the 18th century design that was, in-turn, based on 1000 years of woodcrafting tradition. I have chisels, a saw, and some ideas... must be out of my mind. :P

How exciting!

~ matt