A friendly, safety-first guide for the garage woodworker, built around the small habits that keep your fingers attached, your cuts true, and your projects worth showing off on Monday morning.
6 chapters · 31 rules
This book is a shop mentor in your pocket, not a catalog of joints. It favors the handful of habits that pay off every single weekend: respect the blade, measure with care, read the wood, keep tools sharp, and clean as you go. Plain talk, no lectures.
For the weekend hobbyist working alone in a garage or basement shop, with modest tools and limited time, who wants to get better without getting hurt.
Added the Read the Wood chapter, a rule on eye and ear protection, and expanded dust guidance; reworked the layout rules around story sticks and single-tape consistency.
Initial publication.
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