Angie Blevins Carpentry

04/14/2026

For fun - turning tops -

01/03/2026

Still making tops - lots of fun- brings me Joy - what’s your favorite color?

Maybe I’ll surprise You and send you one -

11/20/2025

Learned a new tool - to use on tops - makes a design on it-

10/17/2025

- I made 2 tops yesterday… my first out of Ash. Now of course I want to make more.

10/16/2025

From a block of ash to 2 cut & finished tops - one spins and spins and spins (long enough for me to snap a photo) looks like holiday gifts. 😉 🎄🎁 …

09/18/2025

Wow

You may have seen sturgeon jumping in the river, but did you know that they move between rivers up and down the Atlantic and even into Canada?

As part of a recently funded grant to MDMR from the NOAA Species recovery Grants to States program, scientists in the Bureau of Sea-Run Fisheries and Habitat are working with collaborators at the University of Maine to get a better handle on how sturgeon move along our coastline. The team caught tagged Atlantic and Shortnose Sturgeon in the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers during August and are now tracking their movements among Maine’s coastal rivers and beyond. A highlight of the tagging effort was the capture of this enormous adult Atlantic Sturgeon. The team is excited to see how far afield it ranges! FMI https://bit.ly/4mlVxoG

Photo taken under NOAA NMFS Permit No. 20347-02
Photo Credit: Elain Mork, University of Maine
Pictured: Sander Elliot, graduate student at the University of Maine; Joe Zydlewski, Unit Leader, Maine Cooperative Research Unit; Jason Bartlett, DMR Scientist

08/22/2025

Refinishing tables has an excellent look. - do you have a table that has scratches or water marks and you’d like to keep it vs selling or give away? Reach out- to see when the magic can happen for you-

08/15/2025

I thought I was “done” fixing this chair but it wiggled too much sooooo I moved a stringer on the seat - back into its hole on a leg corner- took a bit of thinking & miscellaneous tools… (I was thinking at the time, is this a Trigonometry - problem(?) 45 years without using it….hmmm) now onto painting it white - check back later -

08/14/2025

I’ve had this table too long, tried staining last week, 95-100 was too hot, I had to sand again. This time I sanded, and then applied a conditioner, and reapplied Vermont Natural Coatings, stain and Finish (low VOCs) . Looks great! Reapply in 2 hours! Wowee.

07/27/2025

New challenge - how to take a block and make it an angled table leg. 😉 this looks good. (Thank you to - Frank Norwood-)