Read and Feed the Woodworker in You
There are books I come across from time to time that become rereads you keep because they add an enriching warmth to your life and unquestionably they become just yours….
There are books I come across from time to time that become rereads you keep because they add an enriching warmth to your life and unquestionably they become just yours….
…to an older woman in her early 50’s telling a 12 year old girl sitting in the cafe we’re in that if she gets good results in her exams “it…
…use as an ordinary marking gauge and then how we use a light pass for fine lines not a heavy one are examples. I think most people coming into woodworking…
…degree years to. Of course in certain spheres large companies force you to become ‘independent contractors’ so as not to have to employ you directly. Sub-contracting is common enough. Lump…
…for the windows and I thought to myself ‘That’s clever forethought!’ I didn’t yet examine the case or ‘box’ to see how the lead or cast iron weights worked with…
…spewing stuff out to bring the price down to compete with companies whose sole business was a form of mass-making or another. This is a danger for us all. When…
…of anything we want to control. A controlled area makes us feel comfortable and we only really feel comfortable when we are in control. My area immediately around my workbench…
…design programs that complete eye surgery on human eyes, but here they are striving to master some methods that, by comparison, would be crude methods to work wood “Be realistic!”…
…I said, the handle was indeed very comfortable and really gripped the file positively with no slippage. Probably the most comfortable handle I have ever used, this file made the…
…couldn’t have what Joseph Marples had prior to that amalgamation as Record Marples. Remember that these companies today have no loyalty and no compunction in that they buy and sell…
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