News from MacGowan's

Hello, my friends!

Several new, and somewhat exciting, things are happening at MacGowan's!!

First, I must apologize for neglecting this blog and other various sites. We have been busy keeping up with orders; preparing for upcoming changes; and revamping the shop to further improve production... somewhere between running around like a head with my chicken cut off and redesigning our technical capabilities - social networking was lost.

On the positive side: business is increasing, and to cope with higher demands we have created new schedules to allow us to better handle all aspects of business, rather than simply focusing on orders only. One such improvement will be the addition of a blog post a week - once every Wednesday, with the occasional odd post here and there. Another improvement is our upcoming website! My partner, Dorothea, is designing a new site that will allow the less technically savvy (me) to post new items and news more easily.

So, what are the big changes, you ask? Well, the biggest change will be the addition of short, 3 - 5 minute "how-to" videos and blog posts. The videos and posts will include instructions for anything from making tankards and cabinets, to sharpening tools to chopping off superfluous chunks of body parts with said sharpened tools to DIY first aide to encourage regeneration of missing chunk. Okay, that last part may be an overstatement, but our videos are sure to include the occasional mishap and/or screw-up. Our first videos are tentatively scheduled for release somewhere between December 26th and January 1st and we hope to post a new video every other week, thereafter.

Once our videos are up we will begin to give away an item of our choosing once a month to the lucky viewer who wins our monthly contest. What contest? You're right, I should've explained that prior to announcing the sucker. The following is a short description of the contest:
Amongst the tools; hardware; chemical cans; wood; etc... will be something in the shop that has changed from the previous video. It could be anything - possibly different paint somewhere; something rewritten; an object in a different place... who knows. The point is: There might be several things that have changed, but only one of those will the intentional change meant to found by viewers, and in MY shop it'll no doubt be a tough one to find!

More information to come!

Thanks for stopping by, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all!!

Your dedicated wood man and all around halfway decent guy,

James