Chris Salzman

  • Our son was born on May 27th 2020 at 7:17am. He was 21.25” long and 8lbs 12oz. I told him this when he was born. Perhaps this is too much to lay at the feet of a baby, born into…

  • Finally finished this bench I’d been slowly working on. This was the second attempt at a similar design. Both found homes with friends. The first one will live near a firepit and this one will end up inside as a…

  • Made two cutting boards yesterday! I have the week off from work and so naturally spent a few hours in the shop. One is spoken for, but another is still available as of yet ($40). Edit: Both are sold! Talk…

  • A Cutting Board Finished this cutting board yesterday. Made from oak and walnut. I love the grain on this, it’s wild and varied and unexpected. Measures about 8″x12″ with rounded corners and two usable sides. The knot at the top…

  • For Thanksgiving we volunteered to bring a charcuterie board. Naturally that meant I needed to make the actual board itself in addition to us bringing the things that went on it. Here’s the front and back of the finished board.…

  • My friend, Kyle, needed a table for an upcoming performance art show related to playing and running tabletop games. He wanted a table that could act as a physical document of play. The table as a sort of participant in…

  • Today was my first use of the new protected bike lanes on Williams Street. I picked it up at Thompson and took it all the way to Main Street and it was wonderful! I generally feel safe riding my bike…

  • Arguably the single most important part of any project that everyone skips is defining what makes a project successful. The Traps to Avoid Doing so focuses the project and, more importantly, will help you ignore three big traps: Taking on…

  • This past week at the farmer’s market Cobblestone Farm was teaching kids traditional candle making. My daughter happily jumped in line and made two candles. Today I put together a few candle holders out of scrap wood in the shop:…

  • A question was asked in Workantile’s recommendation channel that resulted in slack telling notifying us that several people are typing: What’s your favorite Ann Arbor pizza? I was one of them because, dear reader, I have pizza opinions. Pizza Contains…

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