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            <description><![CDATA[Scott and the Blacktail Studio crew build a forever-worthy round walnut table with epoxy, bowtie inlays, a custom wooden base, and solid brass details—plus one router disaster.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Follow the process of building an 18-foot walnut conference table—from buying a 20-foot Oregon black walnut slab and filling cracks with epoxy to solving the hard parts of handling 1,000+ pounds of wood.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Follow the build of a sculptural redwood console table with organic openings, torch-burned texture, and bronze accents—plus the lessons learned when the “dream” hits real woodworking challenges.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Client That Knew Everything: Building My Round Walnut Dining Table]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A woodworker builds a giant round walnut dining table from rare bookmatched Bastogne walnut slabs—plus a curved base with template-cut legs. See the joinery, jigs, and grain strategy behind the build.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[From a $2,700 maple slab to four epoxy river tables—this project includes setbacks, repairs that actually worked, and a charity auction raising 100% for the Oregon Humane Society. Plus, a real date story.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Spent $7,800 on Wood to Build My Biggest Walnut Table Yet]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From $7,800 in walnut slabs to mastering a 13-foot bookmatch, this build details the design decisions, cutting strategy, and one mounting mistake that forced repairs—plus what really makes furniture worth the price.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The One Where I Get Divorced (Really): A Burnt Oak Epoxy Console Table]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A woodworking build with a 500-pound white oak slab, targeted torch burns, open cracks, and clear epoxy filling—plus the very personal reality behind the project.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Got Fired for This: Building a Sunburst Walnut Table Anyway]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A custom table commission fell apart over slab-size math and a finish reference mix-up. Instead, the woodworker built the Bastogne walnut sunburst table and spider base anyway.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[400 Pound Woodworking: Turning a Walnut Burl Into a Table]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A 400-pound walnut burl dining table built with forklift work, deliberate facet cuts, and a canilevered shelf. Includes lessons learned about finishes and epoxy-style design decisions.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[$20K and There’s a Gap? Building a Walnut Spider Table]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A $20K walnut spider table base—rebuilt in wood instead of steel. Learn the joinery, “impossible” angles, Dominos, a clamping trick, and how a finish revealed a tiny unwanted gap.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A craftsman tries a weird coffee table using black denim, aluminum foil, and epoxy—built with a vacuum bag to reveal patterns. The post covers costs, the process, and durability risks.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A woman lost $17,000 to a Blacktail Studio impersonation scam. I couldn’t refund her, but I built her dream table—walnut slabs and metallic blue epoxy—while gathering details to help stop the fraud.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A designer shares the real story behind building an oversized bookmatched epoxy table for a European yacht: pricing, slab matching challenges, mold setup, and hard lessons learned under a 2‑month deadline.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A free redwood slab turns into a six-foot round epoxy table experiment. See why 72-inch epoxy tables cost so much, how wide slabs are machined, and what it takes to prepare redwood for a clear/frosted pour.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2000 Pound Table: Building a Giant Timber-Framed Outdoor Table]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learn how a craftsman built an over-12-foot Douglas fir timber-framed outdoor table with built-in benches—square milling, mortise & tenon joinery, half-laps, wooden pegs, and lessons from one costly design mistake.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[“That’s Barely Woodworking”: Building Two $25,000 Walnut Slab Tables]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A woodworking shop story of building two premium walnut slab tables for $25,000—featuring careful layout, a tough live-edge corner repair, sealed crack fills, colored epoxy, and finishing down to the underside.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[See what really happens during table saw kickback—how the rising teeth catch, twist, and throw work back, and why your hand can move into the blade faster than you think. Safety warnings included.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learn how a walnut slab with a natural void became a walnut and glass river table—why epoxy wasn’t the answer, how tempered glass changes everything, and how a waterjet made the irregular glass panel possible.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Out of My Comfort Zone: Building a Guitar-Inspired Mappa Burl Desk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A behind-the-scenes look at building a curved, guitar-inspired desk from a soft mappa burl slab—covering template making, dye tests, shop collaboration, and finishing lessons.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learn how ten denim-and-epoxy tabletops were built using plywood pattern layouts, vacuum-bag lamination, peel ply, and breather materials—plus the lessons learned from unpredictable results.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Client Gave Me $16,000, Then Changed His Mind]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A client put down a fast $16,000 deposit for a massive walnut dining table, then changed direction years later—leaving an epoxy ski coffee table I didn’t want to build. Here’s what happened and how I handled it.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Polishing Burnt Wood Like Glass: A White Oak Waterfall Desk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learn how to polish a burnt white oak waterfall desk like glass: shaping the burn gradient, sealing char before epoxy, and pouring for a piano-shine epoxy while keeping the oak matte.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Damascus Denim Woodworking: Building a Table From Layers of Fabric and Epoxy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A denim “Damascus” tabletop built from alternating light/dark fabric layers, shaped over a patterned mold, then vacuum-infused/compressed with epoxy and surfaced to reveal the rings and flow. Learn what worked—and what failed.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Only Took Me Two Years to Make $8,000: Rescuing a Failed Epoxy Table]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I turned a failed epoxy table into furniture after 2 years—because trapped moisture cracked the resin. Learn what went wrong, what finally fixed it, and how to avoid the same mistake.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A first-person build story of creating a large timber staircase from one dried fir beam—milling heavy stair treads, cutting a mono-stringer, and learning when to scale up to an industrial shop.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[$8,500 of End Tables: Natural Walnut vs. Electric Blue Maple]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Two end tables built from leftover luxury lumber—natural walnut and electric blue quilted maple—using the same process and an experimental router setup for round tops. 100% of proceeds go to Make-A-Wish.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Best Project: A Sculpted Cabinet Built From 300 Pieces of Walnut]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A woodworking project diary: how a sculpted walnut cabinet was built from roughly 300 pieces, using plywood templates, Domino joinery, and careful geometry before carving the final form.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mammoth Tusk Restoration: Bringing 20,000-Year-Old Ivory Back to Life]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A first-time, hands-on restoration of a 20,000-year-old mammoth tusk—from stinky arrival and 55°F drying with hose clamps to kiln finishing, careful repairs, and a near-missed adhesive mistake.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[1,000 Feet of Denim and 20 Gallons of Epoxy: Building a Solid Denim Desk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A behind-the-scenes build of a solid denim desk using epoxy lamination: how much denim it really takes, the tough layup process, and what went wrong (so you can do it better).]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fire, Epoxy, and Free Wood: Building a Burnt Redwood Desk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Build a burnt redwood desk with natural wood on the sides and a charred center under clear epoxy. Learn the carving approach, burning controls, and sealing steps for a flat, glossy finish.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fixing the $30,000 Mistake: Rebuilding Three Walnut Tables]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:00:22 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A costly woodworking mistake taught one maker how to prevent trapped moisture, inspect walnut slabs correctly, and rebuild three tables with better wood, careful layout, and safer epoxy forms.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The $18,000 Table: Bastogne Walnut, 120 Pounds of Aluminum, and a Client Who Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A detailed behind-the-scenes look at a high-end walnut coffee table: Bastogne walnut from one tree, recessed steel C channels, a hidden 120-lb aluminum shelf, and precision joinery to keep seasonal movement under control.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My $30,000 Mistake: Three Epoxy Tables and One Very Expensive Lesson]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A behind-the-scenes look at a $30,000 custom epoxy table commission gone wrong—mold mistakes, trapped bubbles, leaking epoxy, and the one late discovery that changed everything.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Woodworking Injuries in Slow Motion: What 40,000 FPS Reveals About Shop Safety]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A high-speed look at how quickly small mistakes in jointers can cause serious, irreversible injuries—plus real woodworker stories and practical safety questions to ask before cutting.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Hate Barn Doors, So I Made One With No Visible Hardware]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learn how a woodworking DIYer replaced a rustic barn door with a clean, solid walnut sliding pantry door—no visible hardware. Includes tips on milling walnut, stress splits, and edge-glue panel assembly.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[$5,500 Piece of Wood: Building a Patchwork Walnut Desk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Follow the build of a patchwork walnut desk made from a long-stored slab. Learn about moisture issues, bow tie inlays, and overlapping walnut patchwork in a real-world woodworking journey.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bending Epoxy With the Sun: A $1,000 Experiment That Actually Worked]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I tried to bend fully cured epoxy using direct summer sun, a homemade bending form, and careful prep. Here’s how a blue ombré slab turned into a curved, glasslike epoxy end table—plus the mistakes along the way.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japanese Saw Restoration... With Lasers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A hands-on restoration of an enormous Japanese rip saw (maebiki/whaleback): removing the old handle, stabilizing spalted maple with resin and vacuum/heat curing, and testing the finished blade for real use.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Woodworking Fraud: Turning One Mappa Burl Slab Into Two Very Different Desks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[See how one mappa burl slab became two radically different desks—featuring charcoal-filled black epoxy, grain-following C-channels, and lessons learned from a fast-growing woodworking journey.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wood From Someone’s Yard: Building a Mappa Burl Desk]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:00:18 GMT</pubDate>
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