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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
How To Build A Coat Rack Part 3
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| Put the jig on the drill press table, (I have extended my table top, this is not necessary, but helpful.) Measure the bottom of the peg, and use the right size drill to make the holes. Use a piece of scrap wood to make a test hole, this will prevent you from ruining your already carved coat rack.The peg should fit nice and snug. |
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| Roll the end of the peg in the glue. |
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| Use a rubber mallet to tap the peg in firmly. Then wipe off any excess glue. If you dont wipe off the glue before it dries it will not stain neatly. |
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
What to Post on your Company Facebook Page
These tips were published in an article on Mashable.com by Ekaterina Walter: 10 Tips for Posting on Your Brands Facebook Page. For the full original article please click here.
By now, the word “Facebook” has become such a household name that it’s likely your brand is already on Facebook. Company Facebook pages are a very useful social media resource when updated regularly but efficiently. In a recent Mashable article, social media strategist Ekaterina Walter poses a central question to building Facebook relationships with potential customers effectively:
“How [do] you engage those fans and sustain a meaningful online dialogue with your customers. Facebook fans will only want to engage with us if we serve up relevant content and truly participate.”
The key word there is engage, but that’s easier said than done when you’re busy in the shop and running a business and don’t have endless amounts of spare time to devote to your “desk work.” Thats legitimate, and often times the only way to use a tool efficiently is to understand the components of that tool and really pin down what youre hoping to gain. If the aim of your businesss Facebook is to spread awareness about your brand and build engaged consumer relationships, then knowing about which posts are seen and how is helpful.
Walker calls readers’ attention to EdgeRank, this is Facebook’s News Feed algorithm that helps display “relevant” stories. “The News Feed only displays a small subset of stories generated by the friends and brands users engage with the most,” says Walker. “The more popular your story, the more likely it is to show up in peoples News Feed. News Feed optimization becomes as important as your content strategy.”
Okay so we’ll start with those 2 ideas, (1) Engaging, conversation-starting content (2)Newsfeed optimization. In her full article, Ekaterina elucidates ten strategies for achieving both engaging content and newsfeed optimization. I’ll boil down Ms. Walker’s first pointer below, but check out her full article for useful, in-depth info on this subject.
#1 Tip: Don’t Automate Your Status Updates
Resist the temptation to feed your blog posts or your Twitter updates directly into your Facebook Page. It may be a short-term time saver, but automated content often doesn’t make it into users’ News Feeds (which means it gets buried and they don’t see it). Your fans can also tell the difference between “auto” posts and customized one that you’ve wrote with thought, so taking the time to write legit posts carries rapport with your fans (your past or potential customers).
This doesn’t mean you have to sweat about updating your page constantly, it’s just a reminder that putting in the extra few minutes when you do get around to updating your Facebook is worthwhile to engage your fans and show up in News Feeds.
CustomMade.com is an online marketing resource for woodworkers and creators of custom products. These marketing tips are intended to help you grow your online presence as a woodworking professional seeking to build a relationship with online shoppers. For more info on online marketing and joining the CustomMade community click here.
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Thinking about going pro and selling your woodwork? Or just want some advice on how to market your business and make it stand out in the marketplace? Well this blog’s for you.
A joint venture between Fine Woodworking
and CustomMade, The Pro Shop will give you tips on selling custom furniture or just getting started in the business.
Questions for our bloggers? Post a comment here and we’ll try to address it in an upcoming post.
About Fine Woodworking: Your source for expert advice on woodworking and furniture making since 1975.
About CustomMade: An online marketplace designed to help serious craftspeople sell their wares and help customers locate a custom maker.
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By now, the word “Facebook” has become such a household name that it’s likely your brand is already on Facebook. Company Facebook pages are a very useful social media resource when updated regularly but efficiently. In a recent Mashable article, social media strategist Ekaterina Walter poses a central question to building Facebook relationships with potential customers effectively:
“How [do] you engage those fans and sustain a meaningful online dialogue with your customers. Facebook fans will only want to engage with us if we serve up relevant content and truly participate.”
The key word there is engage, but that’s easier said than done when you’re busy in the shop and running a business and don’t have endless amounts of spare time to devote to your “desk work.” Thats legitimate, and often times the only way to use a tool efficiently is to understand the components of that tool and really pin down what youre hoping to gain. If the aim of your businesss Facebook is to spread awareness about your brand and build engaged consumer relationships, then knowing about which posts are seen and how is helpful.
Walker calls readers’ attention to EdgeRank, this is Facebook’s News Feed algorithm that helps display “relevant” stories. “The News Feed only displays a small subset of stories generated by the friends and brands users engage with the most,” says Walker. “The more popular your story, the more likely it is to show up in peoples News Feed. News Feed optimization becomes as important as your content strategy.”
Okay so we’ll start with those 2 ideas, (1) Engaging, conversation-starting content (2)Newsfeed optimization. In her full article, Ekaterina elucidates ten strategies for achieving both engaging content and newsfeed optimization. I’ll boil down Ms. Walker’s first pointer below, but check out her full article for useful, in-depth info on this subject.
#1 Tip: Don’t Automate Your Status Updates
Resist the temptation to feed your blog posts or your Twitter updates directly into your Facebook Page. It may be a short-term time saver, but automated content often doesn’t make it into users’ News Feeds (which means it gets buried and they don’t see it). Your fans can also tell the difference between “auto” posts and customized one that you’ve wrote with thought, so taking the time to write legit posts carries rapport with your fans (your past or potential customers).
This doesn’t mean you have to sweat about updating your page constantly, it’s just a reminder that putting in the extra few minutes when you do get around to updating your Facebook is worthwhile to engage your fans and show up in News Feeds.
CustomMade.com is an online marketing resource for woodworkers and creators of custom products. These marketing tips are intended to help you grow your online presence as a woodworking professional seeking to build a relationship with online shoppers. For more info on online marketing and joining the CustomMade community click here.
posted in: blogs, marketing
document.write();document.write();
Thinking about going pro and selling your woodwork? Or just want some advice on how to market your business and make it stand out in the marketplace? Well this blog’s for you.
A joint venture between Fine Woodworking
and CustomMade, The Pro Shop will give you tips on selling custom furniture or just getting started in the business.
Questions for our bloggers? Post a comment here and we’ll try to address it in an upcoming post.
About Fine Woodworking: Your source for expert advice on woodworking and furniture making since 1975.
About CustomMade: An online marketplace designed to help serious craftspeople sell their wares and help customers locate a custom maker.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
How to Use Bathroom Accessories to Fill in Empty Corners
Many bathrooms have a lot of empty space, which can be filled in. Bare walls make the space seem empty, which one can add a few bathroom accessories to fill in the gaps. With this in mind, we hope that you will learn how to make your bathroom more then a bathroom. Perhaps you will enjoy it more then any other room in the house. I also understand that the bathroom is most of the time the smallest room in the house. Even though it is small, you still can make it very enjoyable for one to take a bath or for whatever the reason maybe. For most of us, we have to fill in the empty space the best we can.
What can I do with my old chair?
Chairs are nice, since a person can do many things with the item. For instance, you can turn the chair into a flower stand and place it in a corner. To get started you would cut the bottom out and place your favorite plant inside the cut area. The chairs are easy to make and look very nice in a corner. Creating the chair will inspire your guests, since they will have something to talk about. In addition, you may want to add a clothes hamper. The hampers come in different sizes, styles, etc. The hampers are idea for storing laundry, keeping the clothes out of the floor. If you have a family like mine, you will want a clothes hamper. You can find hampers that suit your needs online, or at any local department store.
How can I fill up a bare wall?
When covering a bare wall, you may want to consider re-coloring the walls and adding a few colorful bathroom accessories to offset the area. On the other hand, you could hang up some pictures of outdoors items. Perhaps hang a few candles on the wall, which will add a more comfortable setting for your bathroom. Remember candles are a relaxing source.
How can I paint my bare wall?
When deciding that you want to paint your bathroom wall there is many choices to do this
First you have to decide what design you want and color that will match your style of bathroom. For an example if you have fish patterns in your bathroom you would not put roses in the room, rather the patterns and colors should all come together. So maybe some blue greenish color or even maybe some yellow. You can go to your local store and get some stencils and design or design your own creation on a marrow on the wall. You can also purchase many kinds of patterns. That will help you out. They have everything you might be looking for, from wild life to flowers. You again have to decide what you want and that will go with your design.
What else can I add to my bathroom?
You can add many things to your bathroom to fill in empty spots. To fill up a bare wall, you might want to add a towel hanger to the wall in that choice you can put directive towel on it to add contact it the bathroom.
You may want to go on the Internet and get some ideas or maybe go to your city library if you can’t make up your mind. Sometimes looking in a book will help you decide if you like the patterns, colors, style, etc. Books are alchoices great, since the material will give you new ideas.
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What can I do with my old chair?
Chairs are nice, since a person can do many things with the item. For instance, you can turn the chair into a flower stand and place it in a corner. To get started you would cut the bottom out and place your favorite plant inside the cut area. The chairs are easy to make and look very nice in a corner. Creating the chair will inspire your guests, since they will have something to talk about. In addition, you may want to add a clothes hamper. The hampers come in different sizes, styles, etc. The hampers are idea for storing laundry, keeping the clothes out of the floor. If you have a family like mine, you will want a clothes hamper. You can find hampers that suit your needs online, or at any local department store.
How can I fill up a bare wall?
When covering a bare wall, you may want to consider re-coloring the walls and adding a few colorful bathroom accessories to offset the area. On the other hand, you could hang up some pictures of outdoors items. Perhaps hang a few candles on the wall, which will add a more comfortable setting for your bathroom. Remember candles are a relaxing source.
How can I paint my bare wall?
When deciding that you want to paint your bathroom wall there is many choices to do this
First you have to decide what design you want and color that will match your style of bathroom. For an example if you have fish patterns in your bathroom you would not put roses in the room, rather the patterns and colors should all come together. So maybe some blue greenish color or even maybe some yellow. You can go to your local store and get some stencils and design or design your own creation on a marrow on the wall. You can also purchase many kinds of patterns. That will help you out. They have everything you might be looking for, from wild life to flowers. You again have to decide what you want and that will go with your design.
What else can I add to my bathroom?
You can add many things to your bathroom to fill in empty spots. To fill up a bare wall, you might want to add a towel hanger to the wall in that choice you can put directive towel on it to add contact it the bathroom.
You may want to go on the Internet and get some ideas or maybe go to your city library if you can’t make up your mind. Sometimes looking in a book will help you decide if you like the patterns, colors, style, etc. Books are alchoices great, since the material will give you new ideas.
Monday, February 17, 2014
How to Build a Chicken Coop and Save a Bundle Doing It
Isnt it cool that raising chickens takes so little resources? There is a reason why the term "chicken feed" is in our language meaning something very inexpensive. Certainly that can be true if you are going to build a chicken coop. Chicken coops are responsible for the safety and environment for your chickens. The right chicken house will maximize the number of eggs that your chickens lay.
A healthy chicken will lay five or more eggs a week but this is affected by heat, cold, rain, and other environmental conditions. Your chicken house must be able to create the best environment possible in each of these cases. A house with sliding doors and windows is a great benefit when its hot. And of course you need a house that will keep your chickens and their bedding dry when it rains. All of these factors must be considered when selecting plans. With the right plans you are assured a good egg yield and healthy chickens.
There are many chicken coops for sale and these can really run your costs up. Another problem with pre-made chicken coops/chicken houses is they may not have all the enhancements that you can add inexpensively if you build your own chicken coop.
Check also this chicken coop guide.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
take an object do something to it do something else to it part 1
in a recent post, i wrote about refinishing a table i built 21 years ago in a style i am still working in today, and in fact, started working on in 1986. ill give jasper johns some credit for that as i often use his quote in the title above when talking about a design language. my introduction to my style was by complete accident in 1986. a client/friend who had been living in germany for a few years described this desk she wanted me to build for her based on some furniture she had been living with during those years abroad. i kind got what she was describing and made her desk, as she described it to me. click the photos to enlarge them ...
there it is, in the upper right hand corner, mahogany and black paint with brass hardware. my wife and i both liked the style and since our house at the time was more or less devoid of nice furniture, i decided i would participate in a show at a local gallery and whatever didnt sell (hah !), we would bring home for the dining room. well, we know how that goes, and i have had this lovely furniture in my own home for 25 years now. this was before the internet and before my book collection had grown to include anything regarding the biedermeier style. the desk above we liked, but was too formal for us so we used native natural cherry with the black paint instead of the stained mahogany. presto ... studio style ....
thats our table and chairs in the upper left corner above and our sideboard in the top left corner of the top photo. so, what am i trying to say here?. this is a post i have been trying to write for a while about, really, how did i get here? we actually did two custom studio style dining rooms last year, this one, and this one so on we go with it ...
so, here we are ... take an object, or a design, or a combination of woods or colors and try to imagine how they could be different, or similar but different; change a little here; change a little there; change a lot, but keep some stuff; keep at it; keep reading and looking; keep an open mind and keep changing ... when you look back 30 some years later youll indeed wonder how did i get here? , but youll be pleased that your designs hang together from the same thread or threads that run through all of it ...
you can add some inlays ... here we have a studio style half round with abalone inlays, which led to some bed headboards with abalone inlays, and we know where that went, which was on to one of our most involved and challenging pieces. more on the wood and metal style in a future post.
wood and steel tables ... the bethlehem steel series.Thursday, January 23, 2014
Now I Have Something To Take A Bead On
I had a pleasant surprise this morning. The postman arrived with a little package for me; the Stanley #66 I purchased last week on eBay.
Looking at this thing, I find it a bit unbelievable that it could have been made at the beginning of this configurations manufacturing run, which would be 1909. If it was, the guy who bought it brought it home and put it in his wifes underwear drawer where it sat until momandpopcybershop scooped it to sell on eBay. It is just way too clean, but it is exactly as momandpop described it; very clean and very complete. Heck, even the washer under the thumbscrew that holds the fences on is there.
Im really pleased to have it. Im starting a new chisel rack next week and have included some reeding in the design. In a couple of weeks we will see what this thing is made of.
Peace,
Mitchell
Saturday, January 11, 2014
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