Woodworking

I developed a serious interest in making sawdust with power tools. Luckily I didn’t hurt myself.

This is my beginning in woodworking in Austin, starting in my garage and then into a shared warehouse space with two other woodworkers.

I moved to Paso Robles, California in June 2007 and I built a new woodworking shop in the building behind my house.

I sold or gave away all of my tools and wood when I left California for Thailand.  I do miss it sometimes but it doesn’t make sense to try to get up to speed with woodworking here.

Projects:

I had listings for these DIY Network shows that I liked, but since the channel was taken over by The Magnolia Network, all trace of them is gone:

  • DIY Handmade Music,
  • DIY Woodturning
  • DIY Tools and Techniques
  • DIY Ultimate Workshop
  • DIY Refinshing
  • DIY Habitat for Humanity
  • Wood Works

Special Tools

I’ve had the good fortune to meet David Marks, award winning craftsman and host of the DIY Channel’s Wood Works show, several times. The first was an informal class at the Austin Woodcraft store on March 6, 2004, a sharpening, scraping, inlay and finishing class he taught on December 6, 2004, a visit to his workshop in California, and a bowl turning class on October 26, 2005. I have a list of his TV shows, which are no longer available due to the demise of the DIY Network.

Tommy Silva at the Austin Home and Garden Show, Sep. 18, 1999

My trip to M & G Sawmill

Pictures of the This Old House Winter 2006/2007 project in Austin

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