Brendan Fenn - Carpenter

Can't hear your dinner date? How noisy restaurants may be harming your health | CBC News It's becoming a common complaint while eating out: Restaurants are just too loud. Marketplace examined the noise levels at some of Canada's big chains and met some people working on ways to address the deafening din of today's dining room.

Happy Spring! Here's a before & after of a project from last summer.

Springy diving board made of Ipe wood with aluminum base

Beauty day in Ontario

A small extra room for an RV

Seems like a good enough excuse for a road-trip to one of my favourite sawyers. Dylan Moore, Yorgo Liapis, Simon Kitz are you in need of any maple or softwood?

Specialty Lumber & Character Log Auction
Base Camp - Saturday 13 May - 10AM-2PM
Register free today by emailing [email protected]

Whether you are a hobbyist or a professional, if you love wood then this is an event to attend! For the fifth year running, we will have 300 lots of lumber, burls, logs, and moduls laid out for your perusal.

Some lots are small with just a few boards of Birdseye Maple, while others are large. We will have a bandsaw set up on-site for people that want custom milling of purchased sawlogs. The bidding starts at our cost and there are great deals for everyone.

Registration is free - just send us an email with your contact information to [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you up here!

Retrieving workbench.
Note to self: This would have been WAY easier a month ago.

An oil finish can really make bare wood jump to life!