The First Post

Why "Woodworking Meridian?"

Well I currently live in a sleepy little town in Mississippi named Meridian. There's also a Meridian, Idaho - slightly smaller than us, according to the 2001 Oxford American Dictionary, but they're probably growing and I know we are shrinking, so maybe they are bigger by now.

In Chinese accupuncture meridians are sets of pathways in the body along which energy is said to flow.

In Astronomy meridians connect you to the poles of the earth.

This is a blog about woodworking by traditional means,...mostly hand tools,....and the projects that I create. Why hand tools? Well machines are fine, and quite useful for production work, but hand tools just have soul. I love them. I have collected enough to last a lifetime. Now let's go make something with them,...