Creating my workspace II
…ways and yet harkens back to a more traditional past: Why? Because I’m more a traditional hand toolist rather than a machinist. Most machine-only woodworkers would at one time have…
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My creative workspace VI
Slipping the tools up the ramps and into the workshop I became aware of my working space again. I recall my travels over the years and whenever I have spent…
Discovering woodworking
Its another hand tool school weekend coming up (2-3 April) and the focus is on a range of tasks and skills people desperately need to enhance their knowledge of working wood and…
Anglesey, Isle of open spaces
…there are the stay-at-homes. The larks rise far above the fields and the beaches and I stop to listen as I did as a boy when I first became conscious…
Walking home from work
…stands I’m conscious of the woodland silence absorbing my steps. I stop to listen but there is no sound apart from dripping rain. The rain has stopped and the wind…
2011 WoodfestWales Event
…her stool and in a day, maybe two or three, weaves successive layers of what she grew into a finished basket, which then stands with such grace and beauty in…
My other hand
…cushions the wood from the tool to prevent bruising the wood, but he’s unconscious of the pain. Benumbed as he is, the work continues and the tools have their way…
Come as a little child
…seem diminished as they listen and watch my hands sharpen and my voice explain the simplicity that creates a cutting edge. The surface preparation of two obliquely opposed surfaces that…
Sensing your plane work
…know relationally by the working of it. You should take time to listen, feel and look to what you are doing to and with the wood and the tool as…
Of workmanship
…become angry with themselves or the wood or the tools. Others seem forlorn in disappointment while others accept that training results in changing standards and step by step they would…