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Follow along with our projects and see just what we're working on from day to day. Have questions about something you see us doing? Fill out the contact form below and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
Display Case Build
Sometimes we get to work with local organizations to help them with their goals. The Port Carbon Public Library reached out to us for help in creating a display case. The dimensions were relatively small and they had a specific vision for what they were hoping to get....
Did Things Just Get Cheaper?
Am I Going Crazy? You may have been wandering around your local big box store recently and noticed something unexpected. The price of wood...is dropping?! We found ourselves in Home Depot recently and saw 2x4's priced at almost pre-pandemic levels! Now we know this...
Gardening and Woodworking
An inevitable byproduct of woodworking is a growing collection of large bags of sawdust. Sanding, sawing, planing, jointing, etc; It seems no matter what you're working on you are in some way creating it. Over the years we've come up with different ways to use up...
Wood Costs So Much! Why?
When the world shut down due to the spread of COVID-19 there were few who would have been able to predict the widespread and long-lasting effects it would have. It seems to have impacted every facet of life in some way. For the purposes of this post we're going to...
Restoration Layers
Restoration Surprises I don't believe I have ever started a restoration and had it go exactly as planned. Regardless of how well you inspect and prep the piece beforehand, you will undoubtedly find unexpected challenges along the way. Often they will present as a...
New Tool Day
Sanding SmoothNew woodworkers often like to celebrate a tool purchase no matter how large or small it might be. Actually, let me correct that statement slightly. ALL woodworkers often like to celebrate a tool purchase no matter how large or small it might be. That...
What to do… What to do…
We recently found this piece of live edge cherry that looks like it needs to be used in a project right away. We don't have a whole lot of ideas for what it will become just yet (waiting on some inspiration). Sometimes, when you see a piece of wood sitting in the...
Give It A Shot
Epoxy Project TimeAnother epoxy project to show off today. This one was a live edge cherry build that we filled with shells for an avid hunter. We first cut the final length of the cherry so we could build a box to contain the wood and the epoxy during the pouring...
Miter Slots In The Outfeed
The new workbench is coming along nicely. While there is still a lot to do I wanted to make sure I could start using our cross cut table saw as soon as possible. For that to happen I needed to get a few miter slots cut into the out-feed area of the bench-top. This...
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Throwback Post!
Take a look back at posts from a while back to see what was happening in the shop at that time. It can be nice to see how we’ve progressed as the months go by. We enjoy looking at the projects that have found their forever home since they left us. If you have something built by ES&S and you’d like to share a photo of it in your home send us a message today!
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Drawing A Blank
I noticed these turning blanks sitting on the workbench recently just waiting to be finished into something fun. This group is solid cherry and I think they might become a new line of pepper grinders. Sometimes we sketch out what the final piece will be before we start but often there is steel on wood before we know what its going to look like. That's part of the fun. Cherry sands beautifully and the finish that can be created will last a...
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