This is always a hard one for people, you spend your entire adult life working in one trade and then you need to make a change, where do you go? I have been doing a lot of reading to help guide me to the next part of my life. Now I think through the comments [...]
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Well here we go to the holidays. We have work for November and December and nothing on the horizon for January 2010. I started to look and read the news again and from what I can tell our leaders have claimed victory over the recession. The same day my trusted lumber man Tony told me [...]
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Like everything we do at Ideas In Wood, our dovetail drawers are really something special. We take the time and go to the extra expense to produce a truly outstanding drawer. To make our dovetail drawer we start out with 5/8″ SOLID OAK for the drawer material. The dovetail joint is at both the front [...]
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As more and more people look for green products for kitchen cabinets and furniture we have gone to materials from renewable forests, just like everyone else. But what we are doing that they are not is developing a line of product made from antique oak. Take this photo, the wood is from trees that were [...]
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Well this is it I have almost completely displaced Joe. I think that having me as the cutout man will bring on some good stuff in the overall shop development. When we set this shop up in late 05 I modeled it after the shop in Julian where we spent 22 years. This shop has [...]
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