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I am a "Practical Woodworker". I take the same aproach to woodworking as I do with art.

It took me 14 years of night school to graduated with a BA in Multimedia Marketing (Magna Cum Laude). I then spent my teaching career utilizing digital art programs from Adobe to teach communication. Not to brag but I can take a portrait and digitally manipulate it in any way I want. Yet when I want a piece of art for my walls I don't print out those masterpieces. Instead I find a white canvas and pick up a piece of charcoal.

We've lost a little in the industrialization and mechanization of woodworking. It doesn't take an expert to see this. Wortheffort is my attempt to reverse that in my own little way. As I learn new skills and express that in new projects I'll do my best to bring you along so perhaps you can learn too.

Some would classify me as a blended woodworker. I do see the advantage of burning electrons every now and then. But my focus is not powertools, I'm not trying to become a wood machinist. Nor am I a neanderthal. Its just I would rather learn a new skill with the hand tools I already own than buy another machine or jig to automate that skill for me. Some would call this cheap, others stupid, but to me... well... this is a hobby: I enjoy the expressiveness I can achieve by the mastering a simple tool. To me. this is just being practical because I just don't have the time, money, space or balls to justify modern woodworking machinery.

So here it is... wortheffort. My adventure showing you that it is always 'Worth the Effort' to learn, create and share with others.