Students leave and we renew
The shop was empty today, with all the students now returning home. John put the tools away in the drawers and I started building more storage cupboards to store the…
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Tool Ergonomics . . . Don’t settle for Less
…machines needed, it makes it a most pleasing and peaceful experience. After I had made the initial prototype I started to make some basic changes according to some experimentation. As…
Penrhyn Castle Demonstrations
…wood. Even before i started to demonstrate my young visitors were intensely soaking in the atmosphere as though drinking their favourite refreshment. You can see them glued to…
Saw handles revisited
…the handle The post earlier, the one that started this where the handle was cocked all wrong, was about handle position in relation to the saw. The…
John’s lovely tool box
…fitting, this tool box has it all. Remember last week’s blog when John Winter, my friend and apprentice, started his tool box. He’s really progressing well and here it is…
I found myself driving from North Wales…
…woodworking is important to me. I want to make it even better. Someone told me yesterday that I couldn’t tell others how good my DVDs were. “ It would be…
Car boot squares
…snub these two, accepting that first appearances count. Within a few minutes the squares started to look a little healthier and once de-rusted and checked for truth I found them…
Hope Chest – creating the panels
I started choosing the wood for the panels of the chest today. They are 3/4 “ thick so that I have enough thickness for the raising and enough to fit…
My week unfolds – future possibilities too
The North of England Woodworking Show There is a lot happening this week as there is in all my weeks. Thus coming weekend we have the North of England Woodworking…
Real Woodworking Campaign #1
…the Real Woodworking Campaign is not so new to me and the Campaign must first hinge on working with real wood, which MDF and others are not. Real Woodworking means…