WSBE RHODE ISLAND PBS

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Today I received some fantastic news.  My Television show ' The Garage with Steve Butler' will be carried on WSBE, Rhode Island PBS.  Awesome.  I've worked very hard to get the show out there.  I believe it's a good product and now I can share it with an even larger audience.  Thank you Kathryn Larsen at WSBE for believing in it as well.

The next generation

It's easy to get caught up with the pressures of daily life.  Paying the bills, getting the kids off to school, etc, etc, but now and then we should stop and really smell the coffee.  We influence our children all of the time.  They watch us, listen to what we are saying and mimic us.  It is important to be a positive role model and take the time to listen to and watch what our children are doing. My son has a pair of work boots as do I.  The other day I had taken mine off after shoveling some snow.  Later that evening I went to put them on and they weren't where I had left them.  My son had moved them next to his.  Our children want to be like us so please take the time to influence them positively.  Take a moment and make a simple project with them, it'll go a long way and mean so much to them.

Rustic Reunion

I made this rustic chair three years ago.  I made the chair as a project for an episode of the show 'The Garage with Steve Butler'.  The chair is made out of red maple sticks. The mortise holes were drilled out using a forstner bit and the round tenons were cut using a tenoning cutter, which works much like a very large pencil sharpener.  I pegged the tenons using small panel nails.  The nails are available in different colors.  I used brown nails.  I used one inch wide black and red shaker tape to weave the seat.  This was the first chair of this type I had ever made and I'm really happy with it.  The chair has been storage for the past three years .  The storage isn't heated.  The chair has survived high heat and humidity and below freezing temperatures and it is as solid as the day I made it. It now sits by the wood stove in my wife's studio.