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Most of the people who do these woodworking blogs are not making a living off them – they're doing it for the love of the craft and the pleasure derived (without trying to be sappy here...) from helping other people. Most of these bloggers have fulltime "day jobs," families, and other responsibilities, but find a way to squeeze in their blogs (or podcasts, or webisodes) anyway.
Picking the woodworking blogs you like, and putting them together in a reader* (so that new posts are immediately visible to you) is fun. It's almost like putting together your own personalized woodworking magazine. Or more like your own woodworking newspaper, because with a bunch of different blogs, you might be getting new content every day.
I like different blogs for different reasons. I read some just because they're very informative. I enjoy others because they're funny, and some even just because I've become interested in the blogger and enjoy following his or her woodworking projects.
April is National Woodworking Month, and to celebrate, we'll be spending the month revamping our blog! We want the blog to be all about woodworkers and the joys of woodworking. Changes will be gradual throughout April, but you'll be seeing things like interviews, polls, games and contests, featured woodworkers, and all the latest "buzz" on our favorite hobby: Woodworking!
Want to see a couple hours vanish from your day? If you haven't gone down this path already, give the Eyeballing Game a try. This seemingly simple game was hatched in the mind of Matthias Wandel, a prolific woodworker with a talent for mechanics and mathematics. Thanks to his efforts, anyone can test their abilities in common, woodworking-related "eyeball" measurements any time they'd like. The rules are easy to master. Through a series of screens, players are challenged with common eyeballing tasks, including finding the midpoint of a line segment, pinpointing the center of a circle and judging a perfect 90 degree angle. Piece of cake, right? Well...
