2013 March Shop Tour

March is now upon us. And with it, another monthly shop tour.

The Ghetto WorkCenter Boom Arm built last month is now stored on the wall.

While I conceived of the monthly shop tour series as a choice of documenting the progress Im making on the shop, the March tour is unfortunately a documentation of my lack of progress since the previous tour. About the only thing I managed to do in the shop since the February tour was the preparation of 8 birdhouses which my sons Cub Scout den assembled last week.This lack of shop progress is to be expected as life often gets in the choice. What are we to do? Just keep our heads down and steal some shop time when we can. Hopefully your last month in the shop was productive.

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Updated Woodworking Blogs

Im looking to revamp my website. I loved the HTML 5 goodness of my previous, Dynamic View template. Unfortunately, it had errors displaying the side column info and, more importantly, the comments. Back to my current, traditional Blogger template I moved.
Ive not been the only one changing the look of their blog recently. In Fact, a few others have not just changed, but massively improved their blogs.
Matts Basement WorkshopMatts the Podfather of Woodworkers. Hes been around forever and for good reason. Over that time his site has gone through a number of revisions. Thanks to the success of his recent fundraising campaign (& the generosity of the woodworking community), his brand new site is fantastic - his best yet. It now features much less clutter, a focus on the most recent videos and a much better search.

American Craftsman Workshop

Todd Clippinger is a woodworking machine. He seems to be in his shop 24/7 and his constant encouragement to the community is to get into the shop. Todds a SquareSpace user, and hes recently upgraded to SquareSpace 6. This has brought his site to a new level of navigational ease, content accessibility and UI cleanliness. It also improves Todds content management experience.

Todds in the shop as you read this.

I need a vacations worth of time to work on, change and upgrade my site. When I do, Ill likely go SquareSpace. Until then, I hope you dont mind the current Penultimate Woodshop too much.

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