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Project Gallery - Shop - Tool Reviews - Shop Projects & Jigs - WW Philosophies - Galoot Tool Pics - Links - Library - Blog - Bio

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One of My Favorite Cartoons: I keep the cartoon shown below hung on the wall in my shop. It tends to keep things in proper perspective. This hobby is supposed to be fun!

Cartoon

What's In A Name?: I used "Hypotenuse" as an anonymous alias on the web for a number of years. I've since decided that I was being a bit too paranoid and have now started to phase out Hypo and use my real name.

Comments about this web site: I thoroughly enjoy woodworking, and I also enjoy building and updating this site. It provides me a place to catalog finished pieces, tool reviews, ww links, and other opinionated mumbo-jumbo. I've also heard from many woodworkers that it's provided them with a bit of guidance, and that's fantastic. Feel free to send me an email with any comments or criticism (constructive or otherwise) about this site. I love hearing from visitors.

Another motive for this site is to maintain a database of pictures of my tools for insurance purposes. My ISP has a good backup program, and I know that if anything ever happens to my house the pictures will still be available for assistance with insurance claims.

This site contains no advertising. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. None of my work is for sale, and I have no plans to go pro or do any major commissions, so there are no ulterior motives in these pages. You can browse without fear of being sold something blatantly or subliminally.

I personally created this site entirely using Notepad for html authoring. I know barely enough to build basic web pages, but I find them much cleaner than my initial attempts with Front Page, Word, and other canned html authoring tools. You won't find any fancy java encoding, animations, or pop-ups here - partly because I don't know how to do that stuff and partly because I want this site to be simple and straightforward. Lately I've been using an open source program called Nvu to update the site, and I'm finding it to be very handy (and very free!).

Recent Site Updates:

The Blog page is updated regularly (well, maybe not so regularly after all....)
Added a review of my Kobalt 60 gallon air compressor on the tools page (11/3/08)
Added a page for my Wife's scrapbooking desk/hutch here (11/3/08)
Added a "turned doodads" page to capture my spoons and back scratcher here (11/23/07).
Added a new box to the bottom of this page (11/23/07).
Added a new page that shows a few ways I utilize the TwinTwin bench (11/11/07).
Added two new boxes to the bottom of this page (10/20/07).
Added new bowls and hollow forms (5/4/07, 6/2/07, 6/7/07, 8/20/07, and 10/20/07).
Added a new cutting board (3/24/07).
Added 3 new bowls (3/19/07).
Added two new bowls, and re-arranged the bowl page (3/5/07).
Added a new bowl and a turned box (2/26/07).
Added more bowls to the bowl page & re-arranged the gallery (1/29/07, 2/5/07).
Earlier site updates can be found on this history page.

Feedback: Enjoy exploring, and feel free to provide feedback via email!

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