What we are learning. I did design this project from a practical standpoint. Old tool chests held lots of tools but they were often impractical in terms of access to the inner cloisters. I like my personal arrangement and it has held good for years. I have cupboards because I have so many tools not…
Becoming accuracy Accuracy is not something we are so much as something we become. We must first see what we are not before we can become. Accuracy comprises a blend of qualities seldom considered connected yet for the main part these qualities remain inextricably interwoven in the life of any craftsman. For many years I…
Becoming a crafting artisan woodworker Should I question my efforts to reconcile lost art with our present world and the mammoth task we woodworkers have in countering the hybrid sterility of passion for working wood with the conglomerate world that pronounces reward from working machines? I think not. It hasn’t always been an easy passage….
Our Online Broadcast is an Immediate Success Launching our Online Broadcast posed many challenges but its success over the past 24 hours far exceeded our expectations and so we thank you for all of your support. There is of course as always a great deal of behind the scenes work that marks every success story…
Routers online Routers for most people conjure up a range of different images ranging from face shields and dust extractors to dust masks ear plugs hearing protection and other head gear resembling and American football team player or a SWAT team member. Of course for 99.9% of machinist woodworkers this is essential equipment. That equates…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_xoOXH_zo Please join with us, help us to celebrate new beginnings based on a life working wood every single day for almost five decades. You made all of this become more than a mere possibility, showed us the need, provided the inspiration, gave us the ideas, wrote day and night from every continent and now…
Flat-bottomed and Round-bottomed Spokeshaves Hi Paul, It was a pleasure to meet you at the Fredericksburg VA Woodworking Show. I hope to be taking your beginner course next spring. However, I have two questions to ask. 1. Are all of your spokeshaves flat bottomed or do you use a rounded bottom spokeshave also? If so,…
Today we added greater meat to the bones of our Foundational Course. Here we test and challenge the efficacy of my work over the past 20 years. I know it work because hundreds have proven it. This course is different. They make three major projects without using machines and having worked mostly with hand tools…
The wood always takes some pulling together for a larger class. That’s magnified a hundredfold by my insistence on milling my own stock for the students. As I twist the boards and turn each piece I think of the men and women I pick the pieces for. I think of things like women attending the…
This was a fun three days for me and I think for the handful of people who came to prepare for Tomorrow’s month-long when they will be joined by many more. Gerald and Colin are helping each other wrap up for the weekend. We gained much ground in foundational stuff all around and now it’s…