Evenfall Woodworks

Hello and welcome to the Woodworks! Here are a few notes you may want to know about what all goes on here.

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About Evenfall Woodworks.

Evenfall Woodworks is a website dedicated to the exchange of woodworking knowledge, ideas, and helping woodworkers with their skills development. The articles are authored in the spirit of inspiring woodworkers to take action, make something, developing their skills, paying knowledge forward, and the comment sections are open so as to foster positive topical discussions. The usage of the comment sections are welcome!

There are a number of ways to navigate the Woodworks. As a for instance, navigation in the upper margin of the site, leads to various areas of interest, such as the Woodworks Store, to purchase woodworking tools, jigs and items I offer for sale.

If you would like to be informed when new articles are posted at Evenfall Woodworks, both an RSS and email subscription service is offered. Please feel free to subscribe using the method you prefer.

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About The Woodworks Library.

The Woodworks Library, an index of over 175 topical books in the public domain, on site, and offered free to any who wish to learn and study woodworking, it’s history and develop one’s skills, and a Reference page containing relevant tables and technical information of interest to the woodworking community. The hope is that if you need woodworking information that you don’t already have, I either have it, or I can direct you to where you can find it, 24 hours a day. There are several other ways to navigate the Woodworks, please feel free to experiment with them.

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About Evenfall Woodworks Advertising Policy

Evenfall Woodworks doesn’t accept requests to sponsor commercial advertising or other such reciprocal link exchange offers. As I mentioned above, Evenfall Woodworks is about the exchange of woodworking knowledge, not the exchange of woodworking oriented advertisements, and my readers have expressed their appreciation for this. The sites I sponsor in the blogroll link section are selected based on the quality of content they offer for the edification and education of woodworkers. I am happy to discuss tool types and brands in a discussion format with readers, in hopes that it will help lead the woodworker to a decision they make that becomes the solution they need.

There is an alphabetical, plain text link page provided on site as a service to woodworkers, which fairly directs readers to possible outlets and vendors of woodworking tooling, raw materials, and related offerings where they can choose to trade for the tools and products they desire. Additions to this alphabetical listing are happily entertained from time to time and added if they are deemed particularly uncommon, perhaps difficult to find or very woodworker centric. If this causes one to notice that commercial advertisement is conspicuously absent on evenfallstudios.com, that is what I have intended to be noticed.

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About Evenfall Woodworks Tool Review Policy

Editorially, Evenfall Woodworks does not accept tools for review. There are plenty of places on the internet reviewing tools and I’ll leave it to the reader to judge what’s fair. However, there is editorial bias here, and all rights are reserved to such. There are, and will be specific instances where opinions, tool styles and brand loyalties will be named and recommended, based on both personal experience and considered opinion. There will also be times where readers will be directed to specific tool makers, retailers and resellers to find quality tooling and good customer service. I reserve these rights by voting with my own pocketbook for the tooling I choose. Thank you for understanding.

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About the Evenfall Studios logo.

I chose the use of the Taijitu, the Taoist symbol for depicting the philosophy behind Yin and Yang, because of how the philosophy seems to very adequately describe Wood, (nature) and mans needs and desire to work with it to develop and further his life. There are equals and opposites, there is give and take. It is a dance. Wood is, and we must seek to understand what it takes to successfully work and render it into the artistic and engineered items we want and need. So it isn’t a logo of convenience, but rather a logo which I feel aptly describes what the art of learning woodworking truly embodies.

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About Rob.

   Rob Hanson is the webmaster of evenfallstudios.com, the author behind Evenfall Woodworks, a website oriented toward learning woodworking knowledge, and curator of the Evenfall Studios Woodworks Library, a website full of books and knowledge which are free in the public domain, oriented towards the interests of woodworkers and related hobbyists and professionals. He is also the designer and builder of the items sold through the Evenfall Studios Store.

Rob is a life-long amateur woodworker and professional operating engineer.  He grew up In his dad’s and grandfather’s shops, helping them with various woodworking projects as well as remodeling and maintenance projects around the homes and farms, outside Mt. Vernon, Washington – using both hand tools and vintage woodworking machines.  He continues woodworking today with interests focusing on furnishings, jewelry boxes and associated items, and jigs.

He is a journeyman operating engineer, with experience in construction project management, and team leadership as a foreman, grademan, and equipment operator all over the west coast.  In addition to being an avid woodworker, he is also a former business owner,  musician and drummer, enjoys live music, writing, mentoring, coaching, bicycling, photography, cooking, and makes his home near Sacramento, California.