Hi All,
Just a brief note to let you know that Taunton is closing this expert down on the web site at the end of this month. They say it’s money related and there’s the rub. In this time folks more than ever need to turn to crafts like woodworking to stay busy, to stay sane, and perhaps even to make a buck. It’s therapy like nothing else I know. But there you have it. It’s gotta pencil out. It was fun while it lasted.
Thanks for your questions. Good luck to you in your woodworking. Come visit us for a class at The Northwest Woodworking Studio out in Portland, OR if you want to see what paradise looks like. [Well except for this winter’s snowstorms, but summer, ah summer is just around the corner.]
Remember this: wood moves, you can’t change that, plan for it and you’ll be a happier woodworker. All the best.
Gary Rogowski
www.northwestwoodworking.com
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Gary:
Sorry to see you go. I enjoyed your forum and truly appreciated the help you gave me over the last couple of years.
Joe
Hey Gary,
Sad to you see you go from the forums, but I suggest to your readers to take you up on your classes. The short time I spent in your shop was great! Hardly a day goes by I don't use some trick or technique learned from you. Especially the thing about "measure three times". Wish I was closer to Portland to take more classes with you. Any more pieces in the pipeline for FWW the mag?
Cheers,
Steve Warburton
Gary, you'll be greatly missed. Not only have you provided first-rate, down-to-earth advice; you've been patient and gracious with even the stupidest questions, as well as with those you have no doubt answered hundreds of times before.
Best of luck,
Norman
Thanks for all your efforts Gary and I know it's not the same at all, but people will of course be able to continue reading your articles in the magazine.
And, what I most look forward to is publishing more videos with you online since we all know what a talent you are in front of the camera. People can look forward to an one on sharpening that, I believe, that will be coming out in a couple months.
And, in case people haven't seen it, one of my favorite FW video moments is in the Squaring Up Rough Lumber video where Gary's dog Buck (sp?) gets used as a prop for a discussion on grain direction.
Gina
FineWoodworking.com
We're going to miss your expertise and advice, not to mention your sense of humor. Looking forward to your next article.
Lew
Gary,
And you, too have to close up shop. I just got done sending a note to Peter...perhaps the best part of the site is the opportunity to ask questions of those in the know.
Thanks for your thoughts to what were surely dumb questions at times. The insights to the finer points were really appreciated.
When I'm done with kids in college (3 of them right now) maybe I'll find some extra money to take a real class.
All the best,
Dan
P.S. Go Bears! Can we root for the Cardinals since started in Chicago even if they left before we were born.
Ah Dan, there's the rub. I was alive when the Cardinals played in Chicago and when they left. You don't get to be an expert until you've lived a really long time and then everyone says well he must know something by this time. All the best, Gary
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