Making is Living
…deliverers of food are good examples, you know, these are the ones who self-declare themselves as self-employed or freelancers even if in their hearts they know that they are not…
…deliverers of food are good examples, you know, these are the ones who self-declare themselves as self-employed or freelancers even if in their hearts they know that they are not…
…grain and came straight from the bowsaw with no further refinements. Of course I am looking at these saws a little differently. All of the frame saws commonly available have…
…if a cell phone was sat beside them even though barely any human hand touches a cell phone in the making. The screws are so plain and big by comparison…
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…
…as outdated even before it comes to market, though we know the contraption could be made to last 20 times longer and upgrades could be added to that existing device….
…goes around come around So, here we are. As with fashion, we’ve come full circle. I think that we have at last turned a corner when you see that men…
The blue sky over my house this morning and thoughts of the work I must do now that we have the book finished and at the printers reminds me…
…reward watching them come, work hard and then become their own man as it were. The shop will feel empty for a few weeks even if a new apprentice arrived….
…and compliment the beauty of the different woods. I love compositions like this where the maker combine the skills of instrument making with woodworking and his work becomes totally absorbed…
…saw, so when I come up against one that says you can’t sharpen it, something rises up inside of me until I can better understand why. As I started out,…
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