Blog - James Goodwin

I’m having a lot of fun practicing my wood turning.

A friend asked me to make a couple of bowls for a fundraiser to benefit a good cause.

I really enjoyed making the last Segmented Bowl so I decided to make another one.

I’ve been continuing my exploration of wood turning and I wanted to try an alternative method of constructing a turned bowl or other hollow object.

So… In the six years and some months since I retired I’ve been doing a lot of woodworking.

After many years of not having a record player or for that matter vinyl records we now own both again.

As I mentioned at the end of my previous post about folding side tables, I needed to build three more of these side tables to complete a set of four.

This is another quick project, my beautiful and talented wife asked for a mirror for the hallway so she could check her outfit before leaving the house.

We have a set of folding tables that we got thirty plus years ago and the hardware on them is failing, my beautiful and talented wife asked if I could replace them.

There was one corner of my office that was a bit messy.

Five years ago I built a Stickley inspired Morris Chair and I’ve really enjoyed having it in my office since then.

A couple of small projects came out of a recent cleanup of my ever expanding scrap wood pile.

I was watching an old Hot Ones episode on YouTube with Andrew Rea who is on YouTube as Binging With Babish and Andrew says this: This immediately struck a chord and I decided right then to make a Big Cutting Board.

Back in 2022 I built a blanket rack to store and display the lovely blankets my beautiful and talented wife had spun and woven.

My beautiful and talented wife had a couple of pictures and a certificate that she wanted to frame and put up in the house.

When you have a small basement workshop you are always looking to carve out some more square footage anywhere possible.

Every defect gets respect Every project is a learning experience, some lessons are taught while you’re building the project and some lessons come after you’ve completed the project.

My neighbor has a Miniature Dachshund that has been having trouble getting on and off of one of the beds in their home.

This is another “after twenty plus years of putting it off” sort of project.

As it sometimes goes the last couple of weeks in the shop have been focused on a series of small projects.