Dennis Bauman

Nearly 40 years of home repair

Dennis learned on his own house. He bought a home built in the early 1940s that needed repairs nearly everywhere, and his nights and weekends went to learning how to fix it.

Over the following decades he redid the home from the inside out and restored it to its original form. It is a design by Southern California architect Cliff May, known as the father of the California ranch home.

Fine woodworking

As he neared retirement, with the house finished, Dennis turned to fine woodworking. He builds custom furniture such as armoires, vanities and bookshelves, along with windows and doors.

He works as a hybrid woodworker, using both machines and hand tools: dovetail joinery for drawers and mortise and tenon joinery for frames. Marc Spagnuolo of The Wood Whisperer is one of his influences.

On SawsHub

Dennis is Jared's father. He provides the advice and best practices in the woodworking articles, works on the tool comparisons, and is the person in the videos on the SawsHub YouTube channel.

Since the channel started in 2019, its videos have been watched more than 3 million times and it has 13.7K subscribers. The most-watched ones cover laser levels, staining plywood, polyurethane vs lacquer and table saw blade direction.