Hi Paul,   I have a question(s) regarding high angle frogs. First, do you use high angle frogs in your shop? Second, have you used some of the newer frogs ie. made by Lie Nielsen?  Do you believe there is an advantage to these planes when needed in crazy grain or is it a matter of…

As early morning sunlight filtering through low clouds sends its long pointing fingers across the village, my assessment on the last few weeks point forward fromto past for me to somehow debrief the different occurrences and happenings that will shape our future courses while the results of the month are still fresh in my mind….

I don’t suppose a Bahco hardpoint saw will ever be restored. Certainly never resharpened. Plastic handles do disintegrate when left in the sun and so it’s hard to imagine why they would ever be restored. I worked in the Castle today and caught up on some restorations on two saws I bought on eBay. One…

There’s something special about coastlines and flying over islands. Landmarks you knew as a child and those you didn’t know personally but saw in images growing up. The first time I flew over the Statue of Liberty or the New York skyline we all know through books and films I felt the privilege of arriving…

I have a month of work to do in the UK before I return. Much of what has been accomplished this year has been through the hard work of many people who support what we do and especially (mostly) those who support us in the behind-the-scenes mode, as I have said in previous posts. This…

Well, we said this was an intense course and we told the truth. Five weeks ago I started  teaching the prep class and pretty soon I was working six days a week from 8-6 witha 45 minute break. I will be taking a vacation to the UK for a few weeks and then I will…

All my troubles seemed so far away. And then the line continues but we know the end result. Life is not so much about easy but overcoming difficulties one after another and that’s what happened throughout the month. The end result is that more woodworkers emerged with expanded skills to enhance whatever other methods they…

There are a couple of options you can follow in life that gets you rocking like this. Probably three of four other options give you diversity in the path you take too. You can come on one of my courses at one of the New Legacy schools, and that will make the risk much less…

There was a time when almost all people worked manually with their hands. In my youth it would have been  hard to think that one days that could mean touching a glass screen that manipulate non existent numbers and letters on a non existent keyboard that sends words to another continent in seconds and that…

I have mentioned tension in a previous blog; how there are points of tension, high points of tension and how it disappears suddenly when a joint is seated to a shoulder of a difficult joint. On the rocking chair there are difficult joints that occur. Technically, the shoulder line of the tenon where the legs…