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.
“Read it in an afternoon and immediately built two push sticks. The story stick rule alone fixed my drawer fronts.”
“Warm without being soft. Sam explains why, so the habits actually stick. My glue-ups stopped being a panic.”
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