Name/Handle:

Ty Moser – MonoLoco Workshop

Making Since:

Off and on since 1999, increased in 2012 when I started sharing projects online

Hails From:

Preston Idaho (home of Napoleon Dynamite)

Primary Genre:

Woodworking with a hybrid style (or at least attempting it)

Secondary Genre:

Everything else…metal, concrete, electronics

Size Shop and Type:

20’x20’ garage (it’s all mine)

Favorite Tool & Why:

Table Saw because it’s the primary workhorse of my shop (I do love my planes though..)

Specialties:

Fixing my mistakes (I might have a better specialty if I would ever build the same thing twice)

What do you find most appealing to woodworking?

I like that I can actually hold something physical in my hand after a hard day’s work. With my day job, I can work hard for a month and have nothing physical to show for it. I also like the ‘me’ time where I get to focus on what I want to do and make.

What got you into making things?

My dad was a general contractor my whole childhood so I would help him when I didn’t have school. I would spend hours with him in our shed while he built cabinets for our home. Later when I had my own home, I started getting more and more tools and never looked back.

Favorite material to work with:

Wood (Walnut)

Any advice you would give to beginners?

Don’t worry about failures or mistakes. Every woodworker makes them and what makes a great woodworker is learning how to cover them up.

One or two favorite tips or tricks?

Use a paint or card scraper about a half hour after a glue up to quickly remove all glue before it drys but after it’s dry enough not to smear everywhere.

I also like to cut the corner off of a plastic bag or a finger off of a nitrile glove and rubber band it over the end of an open tube of caulk. Then squeeze a little caulk out and put it away. (I’ve used caulk that has been open for over a year by using this method.)

 

Project you’re most proud of:

Glowing Sign

 

Notable highlights or projects?

Featured in the digital Stone Advisory Magazine in 2014.

 

Workflow and organization is a struggle for many people.  What are some things you do to stay organized?

I generally design my project in SketchUp first and get my first stab at how the project should go together. Then while building the project, I try to maintain an organized shop space which is easier said than done when you have a 20×20’ space.

 

Have you ever had a “slump” or had to walk away from a project, and what did you do to get back on track?  If not, how do you stay motivated in your shop?

I’ve had projects that I just didn’t want to do but needed to get done. Because I needed to get it done, I wouldn’t work on anything else but also didn’t make it into the shop very often to try to finish that one. I just did my best to make it through that project and planned some more interesting or fun projects directly after. (In the future, I might try injecting some small fun projects in the middle of a large boring project.)

Anything else you want people to know about you:

I do a lot more work for beer than I probably should and due to my day job and family life, most of my woodworking gets done late at night.

 

Where can people find more about you?

Website

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