Legs, Blueskies and textured life
I turned for a living at one time, combining my furniture making skills with lathe turning gave me bread and butter turnings I sold from the studio at my workshop…
I turned for a living at one time, combining my furniture making skills with lathe turning gave me bread and butter turnings I sold from the studio at my workshop…
…both sides until I have clean, straight walls inside. When the hole is complete, I chisel a small chamfer on the short edges of the hole on both sides of…
…reduce my headroom. Within a few weeks of my first moving in, I saw a light, surface rusting come onto my planes as first evidence of atmospheric dampness. After a…
…with free delivery and I have used the supplier before and the quality was very good, but this is a shed. I can make my own in two or three…
…isolated and removed. I start a new class today. It’s a non-industrial arts class free of white noise and filled with real pulses of rhythmic woodworking. We will live throughout…
…start only with dimensioned pieces of wood. Eric (right and below) is of course as pleased as punch with the completion of his three projects. His membership of woodworkingmasterclassess.com really…
…Because I have lived my life as woodworker full-time for 50 years this coming February, I can say that what I have discovered makes woodworking a dream come true. It…
…I’m glad for my work. Many here recently commented that work in the workshop had become their sanity in the face of a two-year pandemic. Unable to work away from…
…make the corresponding markings. Drilling pilot holes perpendicular to any surface freehand is difficult if you want to get consistently accurate results. In the case of this router plane, accuracy…
…any different? The post yesterday was more about the softness of using old planes. Old doesn’t affect us like say a computer might or a computer game both of which…
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