New Laguna 16″ bandsaw arrives!
Today my new Laguna bandsaw arrived from Italy and here it is. This is my next featured equipment in my new book so I am excited to get started…
Today my new Laguna bandsaw arrived from Italy and here it is. This is my next featured equipment in my new book so I am excited to get started…
Update: please read this post before you make this. Know what this is? Yes it’s rag-stuffed 4oz tin can, but obviously…
People are passing through the workshop and reading my book. Those that like what they see buy and ask me to sign it, which I enjoy. I try to consider…
Hard Steel axe Edge driven deep Blow riven splitting fro Swinging rhythmic heart Beats slow Soft…
Business cards in clear plastic holders for woodworkers don’t really measure up. People come in the Penrhyn castle workshops and say, “Are these dovetails cut by machine?” Aargh!!! Woodworking is…
I am always looking for good tools and sometimes I despair at new one because they look so, well, cheap looking. Some modern makers can take good rosewood from certified…
The leaf dies falling brown tumbling spinning, rolling round, round and I watch each one by one and my mind shudders as the wind bites cold in currents from the…
I designed these bird nesting cavities over 20 years ago and they really work well. For blue tit, great tit, (in US chickadee and titmouse etc) nuthatch and wrens (depending…
Stanley 5061 Marking Gauge Over the past few months I have purchased many rarities on eBay. Tools such as my I Sorby 5 ½ plane… …my 4 ½ Woden…
The root word for joinery is harmos, which is where we get the word harmony from. When I look at these gates I feel the certainty of peace. The oak…