Scott Germaise

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Interests — 05

Woodworking

A lot of my building happens on screens. Woodworking is the antidote: sawdust, patience, and things you can actually pick up when you’re done.

It scratches the same itch as the digital work — figure out how something should go together, try it, learn why it didn’t, and make the next one better.

From the shop

A Dining Room Hutch

Before and after: from a stack of labeled boards and a cut list to the finished piece.

Rough lumber laid out in a workshop, each board tagged with sticky notes and a printed cut list on top.
Before: boards, labels, and a cut list.
The finished stained wooden hutch top with arched trim and two long shelves, standing in the workshop.
After: all done.

From the shop

Dining Table

From rough boards and a pencil sketch to the finished table in the dining room.

Milled oak boards stacked on a workbench with a hand-drawn sketch of a trestle table, a router, and layout tools.
Before
The assembled trestle dining table in bare, unfinished wood, standing on dollies in the driveway outside the garage workshop.
Almost There
The finished trestle dining table, stained and sealed, in place in the dining room.
After

And finally

Mr. Woodman

Scott standing in the snow beside a snowman-like figure stacked from big log rounds, with a painted smiley face, button dots, and a wood-slice hat.
OK, not quite woodworking; just some leftovers after firewood cutting. Meet Mr. Woodman.