Apprenticing thoughts; a work in progress
John worked last week helping to prepare for the woodworking show. Much to do still, but we’ve made much progress and we are about ready to load up the gear….
John worked last week helping to prepare for the woodworking show. Much to do still, but we’ve made much progress and we are about ready to load up the gear….
…different colour or finish, but to complete the range I started two more in oak. I can make a box quickly and complete by hand using no machine or mechanical…
…at 5pm this evening and we swept shavings of success from the workshop floor. It’s a customary practice and I’ve done it about 46,000 times since I started work at…
…quality craftsman-led teaching. The Real Woodworking Campaign is on for me. Getting people involved means more demonstrating and to a wider audience than ever. Next month I demonstrate and share my vision for woodworking with a…
…workshop and started to patch up the fractured and missing inlays and refinish the surfaces as needed. In places the strings of checkered inlay were raised, fractured or missing. I…
…my woodworking courses here at the Penrhyn Castle workshops my students are chopping mortises like a pro within minutes and the holes are almost always dead accurate. Sometimes there will…
My day started in my home workshop working on some old oak I recycled from an old oak gate-leg table made from quartersawn English oak stock. It planes so beautifully…
…glued up and started finishing the inside today and yesterday. It’s a stout box with finely cut dovetails as you might be able to see from the images tomorrow. …
…ever completed work. It started the course of my life as a furniture maker. My creative workspace began and soon I would enter my apprenticeship in woodworking. The adventure…
…your approach to life in combination with woodworking. Would you send me your email address? I did some limited searching and of the tools you recommend all of them are…