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Rob Brown

Studio furniture maker and Canadian Woodworking magazine editor Rob Brown’s weekly blog – entertaining, informative and educational.

Mocked-up joints

Shop safety: Where do we draw the line?

Dangerous woodworking videos?

Halloween costumes: a gateway woodworking project

Drawing blood

The Great Jere Osgood

Why do you use social media?

 The basics can be tricky

Colour your world

How many trips to the hardware store is normal?

Meet John Glendinning

Exploding wood

1914 “woodworker” machine: A multi-talented monster

Simple jigs are the best jigs

Who will speak for the small tools?

Roy Underhill and his “Mystery Mallet”

Workshop injuries

A finished project, happily ruined

Show me your hammers!

Hammer time!

Lessons learned: a 13-year-old in the shop

Models make the furniture design world go ’round

Doors and drawer fronts are great opportunities

Creating a maquette for school project

A square peg into a round hole?

A foot to stand on

More live edge slabs

Laminate competition

How beautiful are live edge slabs?

Crazy for cauls

Scary sounds in the shop

Linkage hinge and Niagara woodcarving show

Timber! a great structural material

Comparing two bold boxes

Who will speak for the humble scroll saw?

Trigger clamps: Beauty over function?

Dealing with high material costs

Carving texture into veneer

Planning backyard projects

Inspiration comes from everywhere

In praise of simple projects

More from the anti-splinter front

Royal Italian writing desk and chair

My love/hate relationship with Baltic birch

Shellac: The best finish ever?

Beautiful furniture and Brian Boggs

Christmas ornaments and wooden gift wrapping

Sharpening our pencils

Christmas ornaments and an online wood gallery

World-class wood art and a rough boat rack

Sculpted furniture and backyard structures

Snow stops the build and a crazy cyclocross racer

Shelves: lots of surprises

Tools equal potential and new artists

Wanted: shop kids

Care to snaptoggle?

An accountant makes a tool purchase

Carvings and curvy doors

U.K. awards and ugly furniture or me bragging?

Maquettes, kids and quality furniture

The ugliest piece of furniture I ever made

Project vs. technique articles: a solution and some little libraries

Project articles vs technique articles and free chisels

Where new reno meets old reno and simple sharpening

Doing bad things with good chisels

A wooden pinball machine and more about pencils

Darn nails and small shop photos

Let’s talk about our pencils

More wooden fruit and other items from the natural world

A refreshing (wooden) treat and how can a dead tree grow?

Peter Fleming’s favourites

What’s the most Canadian piece of furniture?

Drywall dust, paint drips and future projects calling my name

Busy times

Peter Pierobon mentions Peter Fleming and more community woodworking projects

Community wood projects

Trees are wonderful, until a storm hits

Peter Pierobon’s favourites

Michael Hurwitz’s favourites (who’s one of my favourites)

Are you serious, Rob?

The projects I haven’t finished

Experiments gone right

Finishing textured wood – a forum member’s question

Photo essay: beautiful old tools

My grandfather’s Stanley 9 1/2 block plane

Wooden guitars are beautiful

Canadian National Wildfowl Carving Championships

Veneer vs solid: The debate continues

Solid wood vs. veneer: why veneer is simply better

Gord Peteran’s favourites

Yuri Kobayashi’s favourites

Even the simplest projects can go awry

Simple jobs that bring a smile and a good-looking woodworking video

Yorgo Liapis’s favourites

A spoon maker from Banff and a wood artist from Toronto

My baseboard mission is almost complete

Unfinished business and San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association

One fun marble run

Installing trim and a Wood Symphony Gallery Exhibition

My favourite piece of Canadian-made furniture

Fancy joints

Charcuterie board gift and planer cart update

One divider, preferably with joinery

Saving scraps: a rare success story

Shop hazards: dropping clamps, swearing and being safer…in that order

Winter is coming, and take a close look and tell me what you see

David Haig: master of simplicity

Wooden spoons: sometimes the simplest things take the longest

Hand-cut dovetails are overrated, but they can also be satisfying

Jason Schneider, an Anishinaabe youth and gluing end grain

Upstairs storage, online exhibition, women of woodworking

I have enough shop space, but only if I’m organized

Apparently, my table saw posed the biggest challenge

Hoping my new shop will work out

When accuracy is a bad thing, two types of woodworkers, do trees have faces?

How accurate do we need to be?

Kid’s working wood and a Newfoundland maker

Wooden medals for the “Kidlympics”

Adding patina and a wild epoxy project

Lost marbles, air cannons and a wooden spoon: Summer fun in the shop

Finish samples might be the death of me

Marilyn Campbell: A Canadian epoxy wizard

Epoxy: what’s next?

The coolest project ever

Learning when to say no

An engineered arm and lots of fancy wooden boxes

Beston Barnett and a few more covers

Past CW&HI covers: oldies, but goodies

Cover photos: a mix of frustration and satisfaction

Gizmos and contraptions: When woodworking and engineering cross paths

The myth of the simple deck reno: part 2

The myth of the simple deck reno: part 1

Big, old trees

The world’s most amazing marble machine

Japanese woodworking exhibition / Intricate Chinese woodworking / COVID-19 consequences

Even the simple things take too much time

Calling All (Wood Shop) Kids!

High-quality pieces of wood art from around the world.

Spring workshop time. Almost!

I never knew marbles have a mind of their own. But they do.

Is there woodworking on mars?

Turn up the heat. It’s pyrography time

Sometimes simple is best

Is COVID “good” for hobby woodworkers?

Side tables and sapphirewings

It’s all about the punctuation…I mean, the projects

Kids making christmas presents

New year – new blog
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