My minimalist tool list – the woodworker’s knife I don’t use
Here is a thought on a knife that comes with students to my workshop. Unfortunately I end up working on them to get them to function and the result is…
Here is a thought on a knife that comes with students to my workshop. Unfortunately I end up working on them to get them to function and the result is…
Woods and walks Working with wood can do strange things with your mind. You reject merely looking at pictures of wood because the substitute can’t come close to the real…
Today was another shop day of saneness. I finished the second drawer so that the tool chest will be ready for the show; cardboard boxes aren’t the greatest travelling protection,…
…interaction with a few friends and a couple or more hours watching, talking and listening to my friend Marty for the woodworking insights of a man completing a violin. A…
…this gauge over the conventional pinpoint marking/mortise gauges that I liked. Firstly I liked the absolute precision of this tool as a layout tool. The highly engineered components are snugly…
…those with competitive spirits—those who always want to be the best, the fastest, the most extreme, they create their own barriers, separate themselves from others and hide behind insecurities. Seldom…
…hand-gripped each one with fondness firm and sensed inside what no one else knows or ever knew. I tested each by fingertip for sharpness then the set within the throat…
…New York School with last month. I’ll let you know progress and quality as soon as I test them out. At the moment all the vises are fitted with old…
…for the busy. here are some photographs. This was the quietest class ever. Intense and conscientious, quiet and diligent, enjoying a break from the norm to enter the real world…
…testament to Welsh craftsmanship. Even so, beyond even that, it’s three inches thick, eight feet tall and almost four feet wide from Welsh-grown solid oak from the woodlands of the…
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