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New Year, New You

On this, the first day of 2018, I've decided that I want to integrate my interests in mechanical engineering, materials science, carpentry, and forestry/horticulture into a blog where my knowledge (and lack of knowledge) can be on display. Essentially, I plan on reviewing axes of all types, with a particular emphasis on wood splitting axes and mauls, and seeing if I can integrate some 3D printing projects as well. It might be a bit of a hodgepodge of tangentially related topics, but such is life.

I've had an interest in the above topic areas for most of my life, with formal education in mechanical engineering and materials science, and an apprentice like education in home maintenance/carpentry from my dad. Both of my brothers flip houses for a living, which I feel is at least partially a result of us working on projects with our dad around the house. I went the more formal technical route to become an engineer, but I like taking care of my own home and now live in the sticks, so I've encountered more forestry projects than while I was growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey.

There might be some "urban lumberjack" and "lumbersexual" posts, basically just because I grew a sweet beard between Thanksgiving and New Years, and I still have a day job in an office where I need to look professional and I'm a millennial.



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