On Fastenings and Fixings
…screwed and glued it together as a prototype. I then painted it to make it look nicer and I have been using it every single day since it first went…
…screwed and glued it together as a prototype. I then painted it to make it look nicer and I have been using it every single day since it first went…
…own spiral cutterhead planers, no comment). Paint and varnish alike highlight the circular cuts achine-planed surfaces leave. With a hand-planed surface the surface is generally left clear and flawless unless,…
…are surely meant to. If a picture paints a thousand words then making makes sense of them all. A child, your son, your daughter, loses a much-loved dog after many…
…my pencils and paints. When the builders completed the dining room kitchen they handed me the blank canvass I needed and I started sketching in my ideas for the next…
…with mortise and tenons, tapered or shaped legs and all from solid oak. In 95% of cases, these were men who never used hand tools beyond chiselling open a paint…
…of course Arts and Crafts. It symbolised the American You-Can-Do-It attitude. Quite a remarkable concept. Oak and paint give some amusing options to create visual texturizing to our work without…
…pastureland and we have all the colours of the rainbow in the painted buntings, American goldfinch and many others skirting and scouring along the edge of the woodland for food….
…And then there is the reality that paints and varnishes when applied shrink and stretch in a single continuous movement until cured. That results in the ‘skin’ of finish being…
…type and configurations and finally its texturability. hand tools of different types texture wood remarkably well. From wire brushes to carving tools and paints for colouring alongside gold- and silver-leafing…
…resistance albeit perhaps less so than the dovetail itself. This bench stool was my prototype back in around 2010 or so. I painted it for good reason. I like blue…