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I have to tell you that I spend a lot of time looking for tools that I just used ("just" being anything from 2 minutes to 6 months). It is getting rough. Another reason to get my act together and get better organized.

I'm working on a raft trailer and I want a bed liner type material for the deck that I can roll on to seal the surface and lock any splinters in. I'm looking for a easy solution (read: complete half-assed). This is a plywood deck on a raft trailer. A raft trailer never gets dunked so the under...

I'm getting neater and neater in my old age and I'm finding what works for me to keep organized is having a place for everything. That is what I'm shooting for anyway.

I think I'm kinda done for a while on this, having enough to get by for this year. The next step is power and lights and I have some constraints there that I'm not super excited to work on/around. I might work on that in the fall once it gets cold again, but that doesn't seem like as fun of a...

A fair number of people over the years have used straps to hold the keels/strakes on (it helps if the material is a little long to give some purchase to wrestle them). People use a stick projecting up from the strake to generate force at each point using the straps. I, however, screwed mine on...

I wouldn't sweat it too much. I'd probably do a mix of maple flour and microballoons just because I like the way it behaves, I can move it around really cleanly, much better than plain microballoons, but that is probably just me. It also sands pretty well and is pretty strong. Maybe tape the...

That is a very clean build, very nice. It looks fantastic.

It isn’t all that many times in your life that you get to set up a new shop. I’ve been planning my shop setup in WY and this is my first installment. I started with a miter saw station just because that is what I saw myself needing most as we transition to WY. I think I have a pretty solid plan...