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Merry Christmas everyone, another year is quickly coming to an end. I fell a cedar a few years back and didn’t want it to be added to the firewood pile so I made a table and benches. A couple mortise and tenon joints on both benches with a water based poly finish on the table top and oil based poly on the benches. I’m not a master in woodworking but I’ve been in the trades my entire life. My goal is to learn more joints and the appropriate time to use them. I have a decent back log of completed projects and will try to be as active as possible, feel free to reach out and teach me something. Enjoy the rest of your day.

This is actually a hard question for me. For context I’m a general contractor who has made several one time purchases of various tools just to get the job done. I understand that this question was posed in the woodworking sense so that rules out a handful. So I am going to say my feather board for my router table probably sees the least amount of use. Doesn’t even make a decent hammer in a pinch.

My least used tool is an old brace and bit hand drill. This was my dad’s (and I think my grandpa’s before him). It is always hanging on the wall but I can’t remember the last time I used it!

My aunt sent me a glass saw several years ago that had a broken blade. She couldn't get the new one on so I got the whole thing, put it back together and just haven't used it. I had plans for cutting bottles for bird feeders and stained glass lantern panels, lamps with intricate pieces, etc, but really never got into it at the time. (Got a lathe after years of wishing, and a health scare got me moving on the things I want to do instead of just thinking about them!) Now I almost have my workshop set up to use everything in it and will have to dust it off to use it. Does anyone else do multiple crafts and try to get it all in one space?