Website Housekeeping

For hand tool and mixed shop woodworkers, there are two books I'm suggesting are “must” reading. One is Schwarz' Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use and the other is The Anarchist's Tool Chest by the same PG rated wordsmith. Until now, I have been unable to find a discussion on building traditional…

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I would like to thank Luke Townsley for his kind words in the previous post and also for his invaluable help in migrating this website. I think it is appropriate to offer some more explanation into why we were interested in taking over the running of unpluggedshop.com. The first, and most important, reason that we…

Regular visitors to the site will have noticed that there has been some trouble with the latest news entries where I aggregate blog headlines from around the blogosphere. My apologies for the inconvenience. I never really took the time to get totally to the bottom of it, but I changed and updated some feeds and…

The question has come to my mind lately as to how many woodworkers there are who are focused on using hand tools eschewing the use of power tools. Defined in the strictest sense and including only those who do so by choice as a hobby and have a reasonable collection of tools (eliminating kids with…

I've gotten a lot out of UnpluggedShop.com over the years. I've learned more than I could have ever dreamed about traditional crafts. I've gotten to know some wonderful people in a virtual sort of way. And I'd like to think I've helped people find a hobby or even business that suits their situation and interests….