steven michaud's Page

I purchased the 1 1/4 hp , trim router kit , and used it several times, while making my wife a jewlery box, i got plans from norm abrams site, and loved the router in the building of the jewlery box, i recommend that if you are looking for a (GREAT) trim router , too buy it, got at factory authourized outlet for $228.00  and i love it, it's a great add to my work shop....   and , the new yankee workshop site is a great place to get plans for projects and plans for jigs , that make working in…

went online to find the best price for a good compressor, i was looking at the dewalt compressor, read alot of reviews on all kinds of compressors, and decided on the mac5200, recieved it from homedepot , the other day, and brought it to the construction site yesterday, for the first time, i liked it's performance alot, it is built tough, and anxious to see it in action, when we start sheeting the 32 x 100 foot building , we are constructing.  all in all really pleased so far..   homedepot…

In my beginning years as a home builder, the man i worked for bought me a stair jig, we built 3 to 4,000 sq ft. homes in ct. i became the stair man , when the rest of the crew would move on to the next home to be built, i would stay and build the stairs . i use to do it with a square and brass knocks, as we called it, mark them all out and i then would make a bunch of cuts , within the marks i made, with a skill saw and then chisel all the meterial out, long process to say..  then my boss…