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Wood Slivers

Vic Tesolin

A new article every Thursday and almost-daily tips and strategies from the shop, helping you build better, avoid dumb mistakes, and stop letting the algorithm pick your next woodworking decision.

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Go Make Something Useless

Playing doesn’t need to involve toys…but it can!

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

This quote is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, critic and political commentat...

12 days ago
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Accuracy vs. Precision

Woodworkers love numbers. We chase thousandths of an inch, obsess over digital readouts, and proudly tell our friends that we can cut a tenon within half a hair’s width of perfection.

Then we wonder why the joint doesn’t fit.

The problem...

18 days ago
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Learning From the Back of the Room

Last week I had the privilege of teaching a five-day class at Rosewood Studio, and it reminded me just how special that place is. For one week, the only thing that mattered was woodworking. Students spent their days making things, asking qu...

a month ago
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Back to Where It Started

When I was a student at Rosewood Studio, one of my favourite parts of the program was learning how to make our own tools.

We made hand planes, chisels, and paring knives. At the time, it felt like a fun and interesting project. Looking bac...

2 months ago
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Stop Searching for Tools

I spent 14 years in the Canadian Army, and whether I realized it or not, a lot of the systems we used for efficiency followed me into civilian life, and eventually into my woodworking shop.

This will be a theme in future posts because the...

2 months ago
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