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There’s something kind of amazing about being able to say that: Here we are on CBC Radio talking about our spice mills. /https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-98-in-town-and-out/clip/16245125-ottawa-father-son-woodworking-duo-win-international-competition You can order our mills online with ETSY at https://pensbyjonathan.etsy.com/ca/listing/1638260349/wooden-spice-mill-hand-crafted-from And our huge thanks to Crushgrind for…
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We were selected by Crushgrind: the Danish manufacturer of the premium ceramic grinder cores that we use in our spice mills, as the global winner of the woodturner competition: Woodworkers from around the world participated, and we’re absolutely delighted and…
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One of the major things that we love to do at Distinctive Woodworking is to support the “Light the Night” campaign of the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. With my daughter’s recovery from stage four lymphoma, we’ve got very…
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so, I work full time in ottawa area high tech: which means that my day job often creates a ‘mental block’ for trying to manage the distinctive woodworking website. 🙁 And when my hosting provider blew up my website due…
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So, as i’ve mentioned in other recent posts, the best way to keep an eye on what I’m up to in Distinctive Woodworking is to go follow me on Instagram: With a busy day job, a wife also working, a…
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First things first: the website hasn’t been getting a lot of love: as always, the best way to stay on top of what I’m up to is to check in on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/distinctivewoodworking/ A few things:

Its been a while since I last updated the distinctive woodworking website: most of my content updates have been going to instagram at https://www.instagram.com/distinctivewoodworking/ If you’re here thanks to that marvellous advertisement in Ottawa at Home, and would like to…
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My day job is as a web-site system performance test engineer (My job is to break websites before real users do!) But that also means that my own website is often not in very good shape. So this is an…
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Hi. By coming here, you’re probably curious about furniture or pens that I create. I have to be straightforward: I’ve been terrible about keeping the website up to date, but if you follow me at https://www.instagram.com/distinctivewoodworking/ you’ll see that I’ve…
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Merry Christmas to all of my customers and students If you’ve received one of my creations as a Christmas gift: I do hope you enjoy it. if you have any questions please do use my  Get In Touch   link….
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Thanks to folks for a couple of quick warnings about the site being hacked. It was indeed true, and it should be fixed now:  all posts were compromised with an injected link that sent you off to inappropriate sites. My…
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Its been a busy few months at Distinctive Woodworking:  more wood time than website time. As always: the best way to stay up to date is to keep an eye on my instagram feed at https://www.instagram.com/distinctivewoodworking/ or my facebook feed at https://www.facebook.com/PensByJonathan/…
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