Fabrication First: You Can’t Buy One Tool
Woodworker Rex Krueger discusses the inevitability of acquiring a support system for every hand tool, emphasizing interconnectedness in woodwork syste…
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Fabrication First: The Riddle of the Table Saw
Rex Kreuger describes the journey of becoming a woodworker, highlighting the awe of using precision power tools despite their injury risks, and his pe…
How to get Free
Rex Krueger discredits the necessity of clamping tools in woodworking, praising pre-industrial artisans who worked freely without clamps or vises, usi…
Fabrication First: Start with a Goal
Rex Krueger encourages woodworkers to start with a goal for their woodworking by learning about furniture history and styles.
The Horror of Yard Sales
Rex Krueger shares how the experience of going to yard sales has helped shape his woodworking and what pieces he chooses to build.
The Territory Is Also The Map
Rex Krueger writes about unlocking woodworking knowledge by examining antique furniture, in this case, the drawer box of a table found at a country an…
Fabrication First: Two Kinds of Beauty
Rex Krueger writes about two types of beauty- surface beauty and form, structure, and context beauty.
Check out the blog to read why one is irrelev…
Play Your Own Game
Rex Krueger encourages you to play your own game and find your values as a woodworker.
Fabrication First: The Case for Tool Hoarding
Rex Krueger makes a case for tool hoarding and the many possible ways to repurpose old tools.
Fabrication First: Japanese or Western Tools: Which is Better?
Rex Krueger discusses Japanese and Western tools and which are better.