Renaissancewoodworker.com is a project that I, Shannon Rogers, started started more than 3 years ago as an attempt to chronicle the goings on in my wood shop. It started as a blog, added an audio podcast, changed to video, and now is a way of life. I decided to break this blog away from my custom furniture business, Rogers Fine Woodworking, in order to continue to focus on my audience of woodworkers who want to learn and talk about wood. On this site you will find a love of wood, hand tools, and 18th century period styles. However, true to the name, I just can’t be tied down to one interest and you may run into many other styles, techniques, and eccentric oddities of woodworking.
After spending so much time blogging and hearing great questions from so many of you, I decided to expand this site to include some extra features. I am so excited by the volume of new woodworkers coming into the craft every day. Even more thrilling is the love of hand tools and traditional techniques that is gripping woodworkers of all ages. With this in mind I have decided to launch the Hand Tool School where I am building several courses and apprentice programs designed to teach the woodworker how to unplug and continue to build beautiful projects. The Hand Tool School will be the first entirely virtual hand tool program and I look forward to spreading the word.
Stay tuned for our first course to be released: An Introduction to Hand Tool Woodworking!
The pervading theme of this site is a love of the craft and a passion for fine work. If you like what you see, come back often. If you want to see more, leave a comment below with a suggestion.
Shannon: Like the look of the new web page , its much cleaner. I really enjoy watching and reading your posts on your site, Thanks. Continued success with everything.
Keith Kornacki
Windsor Ontario Canada
Thanks Keith and I’m glad you like it. Thanks for stopping by and saying so. Lots more good stuff to come!
I Like the new site, but you need to tweak the RSS feed. It encodes the text as UTF-5, which I don’t think has been used by a computer since the 1950′s. The encoding you want is UTF-8
Thanks for the heads up Clay. I’m not sure how that setting ended up that way. I made the fix.
Hi, like your new website!
I only have a comment to do about your show!
There is always some classic music at the beginning or at the end but… You never say who is the author, it will be cool to write it at the end of the show
Etienne, the theme music is a podsafe version of Mozart’s Overture to the Abduction of Seraglio opera. Since it is podsafe there is no artist listed, but if you were interested in the composer…now you know. Thanks for stopping by and so glad you enjoy the show.
Hi Shannon,
I am a german “woody” running the hobby-woodworking website http://www.woodwurm.de for “woodies” like me.
May I set a link to your website?
Best regards
Martin
Of course Martin, I would be honored. I like your site and I need to go back there so I can dust off some of the Deutsch I learned in high school and college.