Getting connected
I started making things from wood with nails to hold the pieces after seeing my dad clutching a handful of 4” ovals making me and my siblings a go-cart from…
I started making things from wood with nails to hold the pieces after seeing my dad clutching a handful of 4” ovals making me and my siblings a go-cart from…
…the work down into bite sized pieces, using techniques like we use to make cutting boards, making wooden spoons and such, we find everyone is inspired to consider using or…
…of fusion between my drawn images and the joinered work in the making of pieces. The tip of #2 Ticonderoga pencil, Walmart #2 12 pack sketched and drew 90% of…
…in life we’ve chosen for ourselves gets distorted. Even now, after over a half century of daily furniture making, someone out there, someone who just doesn’t get it, who cannot…
…challenge for me was making things that could be moved singlehandedly by this 73-year-old man. So between making and moving, climbing stairs and installing, I had my work cut out…
…someone. In my world of making, most areas of well-being are taken care of in the planning, designing and making of things. How on earth is that possible? Well, planning…
Making small and simple woodworking projects can sometimes take as much time to make as something big. In my workshop, the designs are never designed and thereby governed by whether…
…mother passing that year. In the making of many things, I think I have run the gamut and perhaps more than most – certainly, more than most in my making…
…my world of making f you are not making something with your hands, growing something you planted or cooking something from scratch it feels so, well, incomplete. These arts are…
…usually come together very positively. I usually feel cheered in the making of anything in that mostly it’s bringing order to my making and that without distraction. I realise this…
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