Woodworking Knowhow - How to Get Woodworking Ideas

 

Where to Find Good Woodworking Ideas

Longtime woodworkers will tell you that good or inspired woodworking ideas are sometimes hard to find. One day an idea may just come to you, and other days you have to search for a long time.

Inspired ideas can come when you are simply relaxing or doing something else. Then it is a scramble to find a piece of paper and jot the idea down before it is lost.  The process is not magic.. but the results of a good idea can be magical to those appreciating your good work.

Woodworking can create experiences that are often surreal. The sounds, the smells, the feel of the grains of the wood are all accentuated beyond commonality.

You know when you walk past a table that has a hand-rubbed linseed oil finish. Maybe you touched it and rubbed your fingertips across the smooth surface

A woodworker does not just see the object... he experiences the wood. Here is a sample of walnut in my hand. I explore the grain with my vision. The edge is hard, touch reveals.  The surface is rough; the hand does not rub, it caresses.  I breathe in. I can taste the walnut. I will now set it aside, with reverence.

Woodworking, and making wood into a worthwhile project is a spiritual experience. There is nothing else quite like it on earth. As the thing you are working on becomes itself, there are also the things it is not which act upon it.  Together these real and surreal qualities bond to become one. The object embodies its spirituality; its soul.

 

Below is a good source for quality woodworking ideas. We purchased this about a month ago, and were surprised at the amount of plans that it included.

With over 9000 woodworking plans in this collection you should have no problem finding a special project to sink into - for a few years at least. Enjoy.

 

Over 9000 Woodworking Plans