Life Changes
…comfort world I knew best of furniture making but the simplicity of making a log into a birdfeeder or birdhouse with half a dozen cuts on a bandsaw came within…
…comfort world I knew best of furniture making but the simplicity of making a log into a birdfeeder or birdhouse with half a dozen cuts on a bandsaw came within…
Below are the only tools I used for making the furniture pieces for Sellers’ Home. I am putting this list in one place with some minor explanations for everyone to…
…world of making and teaching. Of course, I am one of the few makers that could still make a living from making by hand and selling everything I make. I…
…explains things. We in the art of making learn best in the actual making and drastically less by reading. In making my bookcase for an upcoming YouTube video I used…
…of the joinery defied anything but the most complex jig making to make it work for the machines. So any speed made in making some of the joints would have…
…where making anything is becoming rarer and scarcer. As a child, my mother, an apprenticed Belgian dressmaker with a lifetime of full-time experience making, sent me to the grocery store…
…be helpful. In furniture making, there are many a thousand different styles and anyone studying furniture making will soon discover that there is the simplicity of vernacular furniture made in…
…they were to the men from two world wars in making everything from children’s toys to fine furniture and door frames to coffins. Today, 50 years later, I understand their…
…making the rocking chair and the toolbox and the coffee table. That’s what this blog is about. Sharing your workspace, time, wood and tools with others and making friends creates…
…used the project as the vehicle to teach plane making and then cove making too. Imagine this whole project being made without machines. I’m not talking about the dimensioned sizing…
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