So - early this year, I had a basement flood, which sent me down the path of learning how to do woodwork -- I'm a DIY-er on a lot of things, but I had never really played much with power tools. So ... this was an interesting experiment. Could a guy who usually only types make a professional looking oak bar, just using Internet blogs and tutorials to teach him how? It took me a longggggg time. But I got it done. Check out my blog (with lots of step-by-step pix) if you're at all curious. FYI, here's the horror connection -- the amount of time I spent on this project effectively means my next novel is going to be a bit delayed
