Discovering Woodworking
…time rediscovering those aspects of woodworking John Seymour described in his book as The Forgotten Crafts. My goal is to give you as much of my 46 years of woodworking…
…time rediscovering those aspects of woodworking John Seymour described in his book as The Forgotten Crafts. My goal is to give you as much of my 46 years of woodworking…
…co-authored a design with another craftsman. I am influenced by other designs and designers. This is one form of inspiration. Drift is inspiration born from surroundings as I described above….
…adjustments means no rusted parts and the core of the Bedrock details established almost a century ago and abandoned for decades now live on in the Jumma models produced by…
…makers in their own right. I recall one man I know who came to this class a few years ago. He went home, started making furniture pieces to sell and,…
…were resistant to change. A wooden jack will hog-off ten times more than any Stanley Bedrock can and a Lie Nielsen 4 1/2 is still one of the best engineered…
…in the making and also the watching. This unwritten, unuttered poem of highly refined, articulate movement; economical, precise and utterly wasteless, reminds me that craft lives in the new-genre artisan….
…century, but the most popular are the 9 1/2 and the 60 1/2. The Stanley 9 1/2 has a bedding angle to the iron of 21-degrees. The 60 1/2 on…
…my hands. Who knows when crafts will return to their rightful place of belonging to men and women? Who knows when fully orbed spheres of creativity will bring sanity and…
…the secondary bevel was nicely ground it rendered the plane all but useless because the bedded angle of frog presents the iron at 45-degrees plus or minus a tad. That…
…noiselessly to and fro as I pass and I remember my youth gathering the bedding for my tent. I grasp tight the nettle stalk And twist it tightly as I…