…‘how top make from the kit’ video promoting the kit we now provide for others to make their own from. I knew it was good from my own use of…

…just for me. Birds and animals came from my graphite tips where I copied images from books on rainy days. When I started working with wood I began technical drawing….

On the 19th of June this year I picked up a few extra lengths of very nice European oak for my upcoming project which was a chest of drawers. Thank you, Europe. So glad we are a part of you still; no matter the Eurocrats and politics of it, the eye cannot say to the…

…because such Western saws were remarkable tools in the right hands. The problem I saw was that, often, woodworkers had rarely mastered Western saws and Western saw sharpening too. Had…

I love the first views of each of the videos we make. I review them just to check for any glaring errors I might make but then too for faults that might be somehow out of sequence. I also want to ensure our videographers are supported fully and have confidence in their concluding each of…

…yet it turns the whole ship as needed. Soo too those first strokes with the saw determine the direction of the saw in subsequent strokes. Taking time, allowing the saw…

It was setting up the plough plane to cut the grooves that really struck me the most. I had timed myself in cutting the four corner dovetails and realised how quickly they came off the saw. I made two eight-inch deep drawers with dovetailed top to bottom to each of the corners in less than…

Resolve is something of an odd word. Generally, we use it in showing determination to overcome opposition of one kind or another be that with a resolution to kickstart each new year, win a game or take on a difficult situation that we feel cannot continue. But it’s a word with many applications and that’s…

This week I milled my wood from roughsawn oak and some poplar too to make a chest of drawers. Oak is my primary wood and poplar the secondary. The drawer insides don’t need oak, poplar is lighter in weight and for bedroom drawers it will last well enough. I planned out the chest on paper…

…for this no how.” Most usually prefaced what they were about to say by saying something along the lines of, “I’ve been woodworking as a professional carpenter for 20 years…