It’s been a year and a half since my year-long burden drove me to make the prototype hand router plane, the one I drafted and crafted over and over in my head. The first iteration came from a two-by-four spruce construction stud. I tried different bed angles for the cutting iron and ended up where…

…to others. We use buildings and equipment, things tangible and intangible but none of it takes a really creative mind; some daily work day in and day out is positively…

In my recent faux pas screwing a dovetail together on a Facebook post my goal was to prove a variety of things we woodworkers supposedly ‘know‘. What was greatly evident, and I knew this to be so, was how judgemental humanity tends to be and worse still just how self-righteousness manifests itself in the criticism…

Recovery The opening days of my woodworking School and School Woodworking Part II How it all began The lathe whirred and the wood wafted the surface dust from the lathe…

It was a sort of pocket nothing more than a sort of sphere really but he lived in it lived for it was made for it  and he loved the way he was surrounded by it Embraced day in and day out  in the envelopment of his working less by the shop in bricks and…

As it is with many things simple they become the more complex as joint numbers increase around the same corner. Corners can present the greatest of considerations and especially on slim wood. As an apprentice piece set by the other men, I had to make a fish-tank corner from three pieces of solid 35mm by…

. . . it can stymie your work! There are so many things woodworking that are taken for granted and my posting the picture below on my Facebook with a short, almost invented conversation sparked off almost 3.7 million views in just four days with 2,000 comments and 440 shares too. The preconceptions people had…

…the outside and ten times more on the in. There it stands, plumbed, set square one block to another and each building to another and every time you go there…

…result of shoulder planing end-grain rebates. It is often surprising that in some woods bevel-up planes do not fare as well as bevel-down planes. The top portion of the planed…

…you to take better control of life in a more wholesome way. Back in my mass-making days in various businesses I started, I would count the number of products made…