Man if there's a word that was prominent in my vocabulary this week it was fail. A week of experiments making new stuff for my jewelry line and none of it w...

This past week was a roller coaster ride of emotion working on a project for a customer. As part of the order, which was for two custom cutting boards, I wa...

Sometimes you have to step back from your product, look at it, and recognize its shortcomings. I've been very excited about a new jewelry design I came up wi...

I have a history, and that history involves letting things rub me the wrong way and then sulking about them way longer than I should. I used to have a blog w...

Can you do something simply because you love doing it? Your initial reaction to that question says a lot about you and your perspective on things. Let's st...

Every pursuit has its pretenses, and that statement is even more apparent when it comes to creative pursuits. Whatever you enjoy doing, someone will, withou...

We all do bad work. If you're a creative and you think everything you do is great, you're probably a jerk and your work isn't as good as you think it is. Y...

My good friend David Szweduik asked an incredible question on his most recent podcast (Episode 16), and the question is "When do I stop?" This is a hell of ...

I have a robot army. When it comes to making projects for myself or for clients, I have various machines that I command and let them bend to my will to prod...

If you make stuff and you sell it to people, you've done this wrong. Don't be ashamed. Sometimes we have to know what we're doing wrong to fix it, so let's...

I've had a business idea in my head for about 5 years, and I'm finally starting to do it. A friend and I were talking about a missing segment in the LGBT jew...

A friend of mine once said that nowhere in an adult's life should they ever use the words "I'm bored." I'm here to tell you, I'm bored, and the boredom is c...

For me, making isn't just about building things out of wood or making furniture. It's about creating something beautiful and interesting and fun. I love cl...

"Exposure is a camera setting, not a job rate." I don't remember which one of my friends said that, but they nailed it and then, shortly on the heels of hear...

"When you're a crab trying to get out of the bucket, never ask a crab in the bucket with you how to do it." Jimmy Diresta said that on the most recent episod...

It's April 2017 and I had just gotten my first 3D printer. I was learning quickly that 3D printing often requires finishing, painting, gluing, etc., and doi...

Recently I had a client order. It was a small custom-designed part, but it was a large quantity of them. I started out with my Robo R2, Prusa i3 Mk3, and C...

Hi it's me! You might remember me from my maker-related posts and my project updates and wow... It's been a long time since I've posted. Ya see, things go...

Let's face it; as makers, we almost always work alone. Our shops are generally our sanctuaries, organized the way we like them, and rarely understandable to...

I'm very much against making my own shop furniture. It's not that I can't or that I don't have the tools, it's just that my shop time is limited enough wher...