Evenfall Woodworks

Across the top of the site there is the moniker, which like the “Home” block, you can click and return to the home page. Along with the home block, there are six others across the top there, here is a little about them.

The “About” block is a little about me, just so you have some sense of who I am and what my background is. Some of us like to have a sense of the writer, or the person they are interacting with. So there you have it, a bit about the man behind the curtain.

The “Contact” block is a way for you to email me directly for whatever reason. There is a form that comes up and you just fill in all the appropriate details, click submit, and it gets to me. You can offer suggestions, or request things or just say hey, what have you. I am always up for a good conversation.

The “Gallery” block opens a page here in the Woodworks with a link to my Gallery. It is still in its infancy, because many of my preceding projects were not well photo documented, if at all. It is partly due to the, “who would have thought there would be an Internet” factor. Since the Internet, while I have made projects, I haven’t always had a digital camera, nor a desire to be on the web, and detailed documentation just wasn’t something I had been thinking about. So I have some stuff cobbled together there, some of it is fairly documented, some needs help, or is in some state of coherent recognition, but it is all a work in progress and aren’t we all managing a few things like that?

The table saw restoration, miter saw wings and router table in the gallery are all pretty complete presentations, and I think you’ll find that if you click to see the large photos, the narrative I wrote about each photo is often more detailed as well. It is also a place where I’ll toss things up when the photo says it well and so forth. Sometime I am sure I’ll refer to a photoset in the gallery from my journal posts but either way, it will always be evolving and I can’t say when, but it is worth a look.

The Library was something I already discussed in a previous post, so I’ll just say that clicking that block will take you to the link to go there. Over 100 old woodworking related books, digitized and in the public domain, please, enjoy. If you know of any books I don’t have in the library and you think they would be a good fit, feel free to use the contact block and say hey!

The “Reference” block leads to a page with a link to the Woodworks Reference Library. It is a small, yet hopefully a growing listing of pages I have designed for clean print and readability that you can take to the shop and put on the wall for the many things you will refer to in your woodworking or other shop endeavors. Things like steel hardness charts and tap drill sizes, things we all have to hunt the internet for, and hopefully as time goes by, I’ll accumulate and format more of what is needed in one easy to find place.

Again, if you have suggestions, please feel free to contact me and ask. All the reference charts will be of common free use data, it is free to use, and I put it there for everyone to use, so print it and take it to the shop. There will also be technical papers I’ve written in the Reference Library. Please feel free to print them for your personal use as well, however, if you wish to use my technical writings and other work in your publishing endeavor, please contact me.

The “Links” block leads to a page of links… an obvious duh really, but have a look, it is not just the average page of links. I have Cian Perez’s “Neanderthal Braintrust”, and “Power Index” there, as two of the best, most comprehensive “How To” oriented link sites on the Internet. I am really proud to be able to feature, and help people find those, as they are a true resource for us all! It is a huge undertaking, Thank you Cian! Also, I have links to things like the Shrinkulator and Sagulator, just to help you build better. There is a listing of Artesian Tool Makers there to help you find the best of what’s around. I have also listed a number of well-respected dealers in new and used tools. Again, its not an exhaustive listing and not meant to be, and there may be some great places to shop out there, which I may have missed. If there are places you trade and feel it would be helpful if they were on the list, please contact me and we can look into what possibilities may be.

In the “Sidebars” you can click the little orange button to subscribe via RSS newsreader to the latest writings here at the Woodworks, or I have added an email subscription service which will allow you to receive email updates as a heads up, when I add a new post here at Woodworks. You can manage your own subscription and change addresses, unsubscribe, or what have you. This is a legitimate service, you have to completely confirm your subscription or any changes to your subscription via the email address you supply to prove you are subscribing legitimately. Your personal data requirement is minimal, never shared with anyone, and you will never be spammed. All it is for is to notify people when I have posted something new. It is also control that I put completely in your hands.

Also in the Sidebars is the listing of my last ten posts, listed by title, in chronological order. A clickable listing of Archives, posts made in any given month and year. A growing list of categories, of which, there are about 25 so far, which will reveal themselves as I continue to write, and a search engine which works fairly well. It isn’t Google, but it will get you into posts where I have used the keyword you are searching with, so the more specifically you search, the better the result it will supply. There is also a calendar, which displays the days I have posted during the selected month, and if you click the gold colored dates you will be taken to the post made that day. I am offering an archive of information, which will hopefully grow over time, and my want for you is to have a lot of different methods to search for and find topical information inside it, depending on the way you remember things best.

There is also the “Blogroll” which showcases a number of other woodworkers who are writing their thoughts down about the craft, and publishing them on the net. They are sharing their insights, approaches, philosophies, ideas, and reviews of tools with us. Some are very hands on, giving you a look over their shoulders at the way they woodwork. Some are tool makers, some are tool resellers, some are journalists, some are downright funny, some are podcasters, and the biggest common denominators is that they all have heart and want to make woodworking a better experience for others. I cannot possibly decide which of them will be a best fit for you, so I am offering you the links which I hope will help you find them. Please feel free to click their links and have a look at their sites, as there is a lot they all have to offer us, and you never know what will become a best fit with you.

To finish the sidebar, there are just a couple other sets of links. One is a duplicate of the top links for those who still eschew graphics, and a picture of my logo… The Logo is a Ying Yang symbol which for those who may not be familiar, refers to the interactions of opposites, which cause everything to happen, and cannot exist without each other. For a more in depth understanding, research it further at Wikipedia. It is overlaid on a background of curly bubinga, a wood of immense beauty, which will take you to school, when learning to work it. Woodworking is full of Ying and Yang theories; feel free to think about it sometime, I think you’ll see them. Working wood has its parallel metaphors in life. It reminds me always that there is always something more about both to learn.

Finally there is the part where the latest message is. I am trying to keep the page scroll light so just a taste of each thought for a paragraph or two, and if you like, you can click either the title, or the “Continue Reading” link to finish the rest of each post. These too have been organized so as to be easy to read and easy to print, should you find them useful for use in the shop. If you read all the way to the bottom of any post, there is a comment box down there, and you are free to use the feature if you like.

So there you go, tour over. Just my way of networking the information, paying forward the assistance and wisdom my mentors gave me, and helping others to find solutions, information and some of the other good stuff out there. I invite you to look around here and use the Woodworks site. The information is here for everyone. Please enjoy!

Happy Woodworking!