Making the Paul Sellers’ Walking Cane
…next cane series will be about three parts and we will be making walking staffs as an added section for you to make sticks and staffs too. Responsible cane making…
…next cane series will be about three parts and we will be making walking staffs as an added section for you to make sticks and staffs too. Responsible cane making…
I catch myself sometimes trying to imagine a day without making and momentary panic hangs for a split second. Some men I know couldn’t wait to retire to “get off…
…I have never once needed to and in 60 years of daily making as a lifetime woodworker making furniture I have never had a thin iron that ‘chattered’ the surface…
…artificial ways of making to embrace hand tool woodworking, and indeed making a big mistake and never developing what can be utterly life-changing for your future good and total wellbeing,…
…making I make sense and in making sense I find peace and in peace I sow seeds that set others free from the pandemic that preceded the thing we call…
…hated making but made because in their minds they could make what they really liked making which was money. For us it is different; truth for us is making has…
…a new piece of furniture or carving a spoon or building a shed or something like that. I demonstrated to several hundred fellow enthusiasts all of whom I managed to…
…too and make a spoon from pine, an oak staff or cane. Create with your hands a box of wood and sharpen the edge of your spokeshave and plane as…
…yet to be born in anticipation of what’s to come for everyone on the course. I’ve milled the wood for the spatulas and spoons and still have the three-legged stool…
…and her minute-by-minute input. Perhaps that’s why making something from raw wood or a piece of damp clay, some reeds from the riverbank with our hands means something. The workshop finished…
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