Today in my workshop – sharpening a tenon saw
This week I have two workshops as well as a few people finishing off their rocking chairs. It’s wonderful being there and seeing the work come together at the different…
This week I have two workshops as well as a few people finishing off their rocking chairs. It’s wonderful being there and seeing the work come together at the different…
…our ability to respond to the five senses and to enjoy creativity. Competition and competing with one another can destroy this too. We rest from that world for three days….
…common starter wood throughout my different series. Additionally, well-chosen pine is both quite beautiful and absorbing, tolerant and quietly expressive. Sometimes I paint it because I want colour and not…
…that the once new and innovative quick-release vises from Britain stood the test of time to become the accepted and traditional vice and your third hand becomes complete, whole and…
…least to blame for this because they offer free admission to children under 16 when attending with a paying adult, so it is concerning to me as to why children…
…not to tell others. It was so freeing to see people’s eyes opened to new ways of working wood that have stood the test of time, yet been confused and…
…software or computer to correct the errors this thing is capable of developing: no delete button; no way to copy and paste the work of another to replace our own…
…nope, thousands of people to take their own version of the basic smoothing plane apart, work with the mechanisms to free them, fine tune them and then too to sharpen…
Two types of drawing – both for communication Always I find my pencil drift onto the page to create an image from my mind. I no longer need to see…
…they do come loose if the handle shrinks inside the hoop and the rattle is annoying and really not fixable without adding a gap-filling glue which inevitably turns loose again….
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